Winston Monwabisi "Mankunku" Ngozi was a South African tenor saxophone player born in 1943 in Cape Town. He was a leading figure in the Cape Jazz genre. He began playing the piano at age seven and later learned to play the clarinet and trumpet. During his mid-teens, he began performing on the alto and tenor saxophone. His musical influences included the musicians John Coltrane, Merton Barrow and Midge Pike. During the apartheid era, Ngozi chose to remain in South Africa and was relocated to Gugulethu in the early 1960s. In 1964, he performed with an all-white band in Cape Town under the pseudonym Winston Mann, where he was required to play behind a curtain. He achieved recognition in 1968 for the studio album Yakhal' Inkomo, which featured the musicians Early Mabuza, Agrippa Magwaza and Lionel Pillay. The record earned him the Jazz Musician of the Year award from Castle Lager in 1968. Ngozi frequently collaborated with the musician Abdullah Ibrahim. His recording history included the studio albums The Bull and The Lion (1976), Jika (1987) and Dudula (1996), the latter two recorded with Mike Perry. In 1998, he issued the studio recording Molo Africa. His later recording history featured the studio album Abantwana be Afrika (2003) and the collection The Best Of (2008). Ngozi died in 2009.
