Ndikho Xaba, c. December 1979

The South African musician Ndikho Xaba sits for a portrait circa December 1979. The photograph was taken by Don Hamerman, then a staff photographer for Unicorn Times, a monthly performing arts periodical in Washington, D.C. Xaba was living in the Adams Morgan neighborhood of Washington, D.C. at the time the photograph was taken. Another photograph from this session appears in a feature on Xaba in the January 1980 edition of Unicorn Times