Hugh Masekela

“I think it is incumbent on all human beings to oppose injustice in every form.”

“In my view, Africa's real problems are cultural.”

“I couldn't get away from the gramophone. It was the only thing that I ever really liked, and I was singing along by the time I was five years old - to the Modernaires and Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra and Nat King Cole.”

“When people campaign for positions, they promise people all kinds of things.”

“I got possessed by music as an infant.”

“Africa has been troubled for a long time - well, the world has been troubled ever since I was born.”