It’s maybe one reason you’d be hard pressed to find western millennials who know about Miriam Makeba, South Africa’s first genuine international pop star who captured America with her chart-topping single “Pata Pata” and would later receive a Grammy on a collaboration with Harry Belafonte. Or Johnny Clegg, the white crooner who’d have done well to earn the title of The South African Elvis, given his authentic interest in Black South African music helmed under the tutelage of its practitioners. Or the white-hot life of Brenda…
