The line is "in a witch doctor's den, in a shanty shabeen" - a shabeen's a little drinking house.
I'm sure it's based around the Drum magazine in south africa which helped to try and get rights for black people back in the 30's onwards, and one of the reporters Henry Nxumalo.
There's a book about it, http://www.laurahird.com/newreview/whokilledmrdrum.html
The line is "in a witch doctor's den, in a shanty shabeen" - a shabeen's a little drinking house.
I'm sure it's based around the Drum magazine in south africa which helped to try and get rights for black people back in the 30's onwards, and one of the reporters Henry Nxumalo. There's a book about it, http://www.laurahird.com/newreview/whokilledmrdrum.html