[Afropop] Afropop fans are likely familiar with the life and music of the late Johnny Clegg, the South African-born English boy who snuck out into the Zulu townships during apartheid and befriended Zulu musicians, eventually learning their language, guitar style and dances, and then founded two of the most significant bands in South African music history, Juluka and Savuka. At the heart of Clegg's sound is the Zulu traditional guitar, concertina and vocal genre called maskandi, (sometimes maskanda). It's a
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