The TV host, comedian, actor, and producer has been in Cape Town headlining FAME Week Africa 2024, where Sara-Jayne Makwala King had the chance to catch up with him.
Africa is home for him, says Harvey, where he feels ‘more at home than I do anywhere else’.
“When I get off the plane I’m keenly aware that I’m from here. You have a sense of belonging, the whole continent… from Ghana to Botswana to Kenya, all the way down to Cape Town, it’s home.”
Steve Harvey, US entertainer
“I’ve been to the the slave castles, I just cried… We were dragged from here and put in a place where they didn’t want us but they needed us. And then we built America. The country is the economic power it is today because of the of free labour on the backs of black African slaves…”
