Bra Hugh

Mkhulu Hugh Masikela 'Heaven in You' Heroic Humble Humanitarian Horn' Highest Royalty King of King ... Timed In Out Timed ... 'Time!' Citizen of the continent Global Greatest Gift Born in South Africa Based in Africa Branches to Asia, Australia, America Europe and Everywhere Blowing blowing blowing 'Bring him Home!' Creating consciousness Advocating for equality Share stages with Superstars Rooted on the grassroot Laughing ... Leading ... Learning ... Here today There tomorrow Not here ... not there Kasie King 'Bayajabula!' Castle Crowned colourful character Diminutive in stature Yet daring the draconian system Torchbearer of a tormented And tortured people Leading light of liberation Prophetic Open book Power house Pulse of a People persecuted 'Ha lese le Do Khanna! Exiled Refused to be broken Excommunicated Refused to be beaten Evolved Refuse to back down Married to powerful instrument Like a freedom loving 'terrorist' Is to his Kalashnikov (AK47) weapon Vigilant and on guard awaiting For any eventualities Forever leading from the front Blowing Bombing Barrage of bloody beautiful Ballistic missile beats 'Abangoma' Healing holistically Hitting high notes Hated by apartheid masters Hailed by anti apartheid masses Unwavering ... Standing steadfast For causes of the disenfranchised Educating Through wise witty words Chastise abhorrent system of segregation Explaining Through music and melody plights of the landless Exposing Through no hold barrel beat apartheid brutalities Entertaining Through lethal lyrics and light verses Speaking to Human Rights violation in African And the world over 'Chilese' Enlightening Through performances and protestations Conscietising the dispossessed Engaging Showing middle finger to an oppressive systems Electrifying Agitating for apartheid to END Encyclopedia Rich in language of resistance Emperor of existentialism Echoes ... Footsteps of freedom fighter ... Endorsed Voices of the voiceless Fire ... Condemnation at Colonisation ... Fuel Vanguard of the vanquished ... Face Of Unsung heroes and heroines Cultural cadre Fountain of knowledge Action orientated activist Songs in the beat of life Tempo Call to action ... Struggle Scientist of Songs Sangoma Spirit Sage Smooth speaker Gifted God Sun of the Soil African ambassador Fathered Frequencies of freedom Touched Souls Send souls to trenches Kept hope of freedom alive Trumpeter from the trenches Refused to be silenced by tyrant Regime Radical Rational revolutionary Refused to dance to oppressors' tunes Tracks laced with consciousness Capture emotions Mood Massacres Mayhem Mineworker's Misery Stimela Star of the Ghetto ... Struggle signature songs ... Selfless servant Rebel with a cause ... Committed Commander Performer for Peoples' Power ... Time! Time ... Greatest God of Songs ... Living ... Likeable ... Larger than Life Legend ... Now within legion in the after life ... Sound the spirits Now within timelessness Reverberating rhythmical rendition Now living in the Ancestors' realm Debilitating delicious dance ... 'I wanna be there' 'Thuma mina' 'Send me' Lover of life Leading Liberator Loyal Leader Who never forsaken His post Until the last Martyr Straight talker Brought hope to the hopeless Nurturer of the nation Changing people's causes 'Bayajabula Bonke' Tasteful tunes Telling stories of oppression Ancient Academy Ubuntu University ... Letters of Local dialects 'Tananayi' Language ... Light ... Of resistance ... Beating Pumping ... Drumbeat ... Melody ... Memory ... Music Soothing Songs! Serenading Sound! Thundering Trumpet Sometimes Sweet Sometimes Shooting Sometimes Sour Sometimes Shouting Sometimes Sombre ... Nature's Number Boaboa tree Shadows of Spirits Unshakeable ... ... Unyielding Unapologetic ... Soldier who used his trumpet To spur the masses "Nansi indoda emnyama Verwoed!" A comrade who could blow A trumpet Sing and dance At the same time Time tested activist Who carried his horn With so much bravery And blow his horn like a guerilla Does when releasing Stalin Organ popularly known as a 'Grappe' By freedom fighters You overran an enemy stronghold Unrepentant you wailed Carrying hopes of the hopeless Children of the African Continent Children of the World Wallowing in abject poverty Power house Your Holistic horn will continue to vibrates Throughout the world From China to Cuba Soweto to Sweden Trinidad to Tanzania Haiti to Harlem ... Carrying hopes of the oppressed Like Shuku! Shuku! Train Sending ripple effect From the cavity of Mother earth Commanding Call to action Through medium of music ... 'I wanna be there' 'Thuma Mina' 'Send Me' Anything and everything You spoke through Enchanting trumpet 'Send me! Send me!' Softly evoking Spirits Serenading Like Ancient Ancestors' drums of Shamans Wooop .. Woooh Stimela Mine workers Highest God of Trumpet Consciousness Composer God on Earth God of Earth God in this Earth Living amongst us Within and without Your music mirror mass mobilisation You spoke truth to truth Humourist Humankind Maestro Musician Sharing Singer Bra Hugh Honest homestead Composer Great performance Great stage act Great show Greatest God of all Inspired by Bra Muziwakhe Nhlabatsi (Illustrator), Mkhulu Nume Mashinini (Academic) and Mkhulu Blondie Makhene (Musician)