Armstrong had been in his time the “King of the Zulus”, a cardinal figure in the New Orleans carnival. Basquiat had included it in his paintings, as a way of relating to Africa and to the multiple identities that his diasporic children reinvented. But at the end of the 1970s, the Zulus no longer only lived in Louisiana, they were in the streets of the Bronx, and went out every day to rap, graffiti, dance… they formed the Zulu Nation: a collective of rappers and DJs whose leader, Afrika Bambaataa (in memory of a Zulu prince)…
