Fallen South African reggae star Lucky Dube’s kids commemorated their father’s death this week, but they feel the late legend is not celebrated enough in SA.
Lucky Dube’s daughter, Nkulee, says it warms her heart to see countries such as Zimbabwe and neighbouring countries celebrating his father’s legacy.
However, Nkulee Dube laments the fact that the iconic reggae vocalist, Lucky, doesn’t enjoy the same iconic status in his country of birth.
The House of Exile singer, Dube, was gunned down on October 18 2009 in Rosettenville, South of Johannesburg, and his killers were sentenced to 15 years in the same year.
The SowetanLIVE reports that every year on October 18, all six children of the slain reggae singer Lucky, gather at home and sing his songs in commemoration of the day his life was cut short.
However, his family is hurt that their father is still being remembered with events in other countries while here at home he has been forgotten.
“Normally on this day, we meet as Lucky Dube’s kids just to remember our dad but it becomes emotional because we are still healing. My brother Thokozani and I were there in that car on the day my dad was killed and this day brings back those memories,” Nkulee Dube tells the publication.
“We’d play my father’s music and sometimes watch his videos. Today [Tuesday], my siblings are coming to my house just to commemorate our father. We try not to make it look like a celebration with loud music.
“We do share a meal and share the good moments and comfort each other.”
Dube’s daughter, Nkulee Dube, who is also a musician, said October 18 is very emotional for all her siblings but to see the local music scene doing nothing compared to countries such as Zambia pains her.
“What pains us is that his birthday which is in August is not celebrated in SA. In other African countries like Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Namibia they celebrate it,” she added.
“For example, in August, I was invited to Burkina Faso where they had an event to celebrate his born day. I further went to New Zealand where I even performed some of his songs.”
Just last month, a rare recognition for the reggae maestro took place via the SA Traditional Music Awards which organised a lecture delivered by Professor Patrick Lumumba of Kenya.
Nkulee said there is a library named after her father in Malaysia including a statue and she hopes that Mzansi can also follow suit.
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