Johnny Clegg wrote the song ‘Scatterlings of Africa' in the early eighties.
A "scatterling" is someone who has no home, who wanders. The meaning in the song is dual. On the one hand it refers to the uprootedness and squalor of the life of the urban South African blacks under apartheid, and on the other to the probable origins of all humankind in Africa, with some of the oldest remains being in Olduvai Gorge in Tanzania.
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