Hugh Masekela was a world-renowned flugelhornist, trumpeter, singer and defiant anti apartheid activist who remained deeply connected at home, while his international career blossomed in USA. In 1960, at the age of 21 he left South Africa to begin what would be 30 years in exile in USA. From 1964 to 1966 Masekela was married to singer and activist Miriam Makeba. In 1971, he fathered a baby boy by the name of Selema “Sal” Mabena Masekela with a Haitian woman in Los Angeles. He was raised in Staten Island, New York and Carlsbad, California. He ended up on television, he presented shows like The Daily 10 on the E! network. 

 

 

 

 

Lupita Nyong’o Lupita who won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 12 Years a Slave announced on her Instagram page that Selena Sal Masekela is her love. 

Nyong’o was born in 1983 in Mexico City, Mexico. Her father, a senator, was then a visiting lecturer in political science at that time in Mexico City and they have left Kenya because of political unrest. She belongs yo the same tribe with Barack Obama, the Luo tribe, together with Raila Odinga, politician who lost in the recent elections in Kenya. He starred on Black Panther. Lupita Nyong’o has won the best supporting actress Oscar at the 86th Academy Awards for her role in 12 Years a Slave,

She was raised in Kenya. At age 16, her parents sent her back to Mexico for seven months to learn Spanish.