There Are A Lot Of Homes For

African Music, Though Very Old, Is Always Being Rediscovered In The West.

I Didn't Have Much, But I Was Always Happy To Share What I Did Have. It Seemed Like Every African That Came To New York City Would Show Up At My Apartment Door At Dinnertime, And I Couldn't Turn Them Away. I Wasn't Much Older Than Any Of Them, But They Started Calling Me 'mama Africa' And The Name Stuck.

The Conqueror Writes History, They Came, They Conquered And They Write. You Don't Expect The People Who Came To Invade Us To Tell The Truth About Us.

When I Was Young, I Never Bought Records Because My Brother Joseph Played Saxophone And Had A Record Player. I Loved Listening To His Records: The Dorsey Brothers, Duke Ellington, All The Big American Jazz Bands, And Vocalists Like Ella Fitzgerald, Ernestine Anderson, And Kitty White, A Singer From The Us Who Was A Friend Of Nina Simone. Nobody In America Seems To Know About Her, But She Was Quite Popular In South Africa.

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.