Wednesday’s Daily Maverick webinar was about launching Johnny Clegg’s autobiography with his sons, Jaron and Jesse, and also celebrating the legacy left behind by the man the French called ‘le Zoulou blanc’.
“[Johnny Clegg] was an innately curious kid… he came from a congruence of chaos which coalesced into him filling a void with the Zulu culture where he embraced it and it embraced him,” said Jaron Clegg, Johnny Clegg’s son, at Wednesday’sThe webinar was also the launch of the late award-winning singer and songwriter’s autobiography,Johnny was born in England but grew up in South Africa and Zimbabwe. “His mom was an eccentric and creative person.
“Even those paternal Zulu values you find in the culture, he carried them through to him being a father. In his final years with this disease, he took it on with the same sense of warriorship,” said Jaron.“Jaron often tells the story that at [Johnny’s] deepest core, you could feel his ‘Zulu-ness’. If he had a bad day or when he was going through chemo, he would get his Zulu gear and do a banishing dance ritual, which is meant to banish your demons.
Johnny was fluent in isiZulu, and Thamm, who had interviewed him before, noticed that he was a different person when he spoke the language. “When he spoke isiZulu, he was funny, more relaxed and animated, but when he spoke English, he was more reserved,” said Thamm. Although the book spans Johnny’s interesting and colourful life, it doesn’t touch on his private life or family life, said Thamm.Speaking about the process of putting the book together, Jaron said that his dad “forced himself to write this book”.
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