I Kept My Culture. I

In New York I Heard A Piece Of Ground, Written By A White South African, Jeremy Taylor. I Modified It A Little And Sang It Myself. That Song Is Very Special To Me Because It Deals With The Land Question In Southern Africa. We Were Dispossessed Of Our Land.

The Tragedy Of Civil Wars In Countries Like Angola And Mozambique Is That They Left Many Civilians Maimed. Poverty Is The Reason Hiv/aids Spread So Rapidly In The African Townships And Slums. Poverty Is The Real Killer.

And Why Is Our Music Called World Music? I Think People Are Being Polite. What They Want To Say Is That It's Third World Music. Like They Use To Call Us Under Developed Countries, Now It Has Changed To Developing Countries, It's Much More Polite.

It Is Very Much The Theme Of Our President, President Thabo Mbeki, Whose Passion Is For Africa To Work Together, And For Africans To Get Up And Do Things For Us. We Are Trying As Women To Do Things For Ourselves.

In The Mind, In The Heart, I Was Always Home. I Always Imagined, Really, Going Back Home.