Asimbonanga – Johnny Clegg
Asimbonanga means “We can’t see him” or “We have not seen him”.
Asimbonanga is an anti-apartheid song that was written while Nelson Mandela was imprisoned in South Africa. It became very popular within the anti-apartheid movement.
Jonathan Clegg (7 June 1953 – 16 July 2019) was a South African anti-apartheid activist, musician, and singer-songwriter. Much of his music focused on the music of indigenous South African people.
Johnny Clegg’s band, Juluka, was the first group in the South African apartheid-era with a white man and a black man.