The writer, Bongani Madondo, who has been spending a lot of time with the singer, dancer and composer, Busi Mhlongo, sent me a long “conversational piece,” the first of three that he is “sharing with the world on Busi.” Bongani corrected some mistakes in that post that Jabu Khanyile headed Stimela (he was head of Bayethe). Bongani plans to bring out a book on Mhlongo’s career, “… a coffee table/hard book, with a working title: VoodooChild: Pictorial & Textual Essays On The Zulu Rock Queen, and cover a wide set of themes, including on Busi as a rock/blues figure, feminism, style, healing the healer, the art of performance, aesthetics, liberatry lyrical writing, etc.”  (For more on Bongani and his work: Go here, here, here and here). What follows is part status update on Busi’s health, confessional, music appreciation, and also very personal. Two months after this was posted, on June 15, 2010,  Mhlongo passed away – Sean Jacobs