Spiritus Mundi

...that was before I worked with Miriam Makeba in the Union of South Africa, 'cause I worked with her in 1973... we did a tour for the Pan-African Congress. And it's funny because a friend of mine, Leo Mensa, who was at the UN... because she was married to Stokely Carmichael at the time, they wasn't gonna let her into the country, because she was married to a subversive. So, Leo... he got her into the country, for us to do those tours for the Pan-African Congress.

'Cause they were livin' in Conakry in Guinea... that's where Kwame Nkrumah had asylum with Sekou Toure. Y'know... he was one of the Pan-Africanists from the Patrice Lumumba era... a lot of people got killed, man, because that... because Patrice Lumumba, and that "Africa for Africans", they... they really didn't like that... they killed Dag Hammarskjold... Whitney Young, y'know, "mysteriously"... that was like, a really weird time, y'know?

See, that was during the whole revolutionary period in this country... and it's funny how, ironically, all that stuff related... you could hear it in the music. John Coltrane, during that time... that was like... John Coltrane died in '67, but y'know, in '62, '63, all that stuff was building... you could hear it in the music. People were trying to free up... get freer, y'know...?