Lucky Dube’s Was Africa’s Glowing Torch
It is obvious that death is a coma in one’s life but it wasn’t time for Lucky Dube to depart. The legend of ragge star has left a legacy to emulate especially the upcoming singers in our beloved continent of Africa.
We need to observe that Lucky Dube was a disciplinarian as well as a foreteller. He played a big role in the struggle for freedom during the apartheid reign in South Africa and the gospel he spread while singing reached far and wide.
He was a human rights defender, freedom fighter and was always plain in his messages. “As plain as a nose on a human face”. Lucky Dube’s strongest weapon towards a free South Africa was deeply rooted in a range of songs he composed and sang. As the saying goes; first learn to fight for yourself until your presence is felt and then risk shouting at others.
Lucky Dube first made sure that his presence was felt and later crossed the borders. He was bigger than South Africa the country, a man of substance, a pan-Africanist and a man to reckon with in as far as facing reality was concerned. He would never mince his words. He would instead continue to inform the world about the worsening situation of the time.
His song Remember Me literally signifies that what he was doing on earth would at one time be remembered the moment he was off the stage. As the saying goes, “Old leaves cannot disobey the laws of gravity”.
Dube is gone! Nevertheless a plan once made and visualised becomes a strong reality. Therefore Lucky is not gone as some people may believe, now that his echo can be heard and felt.
We mourn and attribute our loss of the young, sober minded, high calibre musician to the ruthless agents of criminality that have taken away his life. “Nisdominus”- nothing can be done without God. However Lucky Dube’s murder could have taken the Creator by surprise. South Africans should unite for the good of their country to eliminate such authors of backwardness.
Shakespeare once said that all that is good ends well but Lucky Dube left unprepared and Jim Reeves before his ascension to heaven he said, All -Revoir ” meaning until we meet again in the heavenly paradise of God.
May Dube’s soul rest in peace.
Via The Monitor
