It has been a staple of the African National Congress (ANC) in South Africa and was often sung at meetings during the global anti-apartheid movement of the 1970s and 1980s. Bennetta Jules-Rosette and David B. Coplan, scholars at Wits University in Johannesburg, argues that it is Nkosi Sikelel’ iAfrika's appeal to our emotional core as humans that makes it universal: