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Há 2 dias · Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a South African singer, songwriter, actress, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa.
16 de mai. de 2024 · Miriam Makeba (born March 4, 1932, Prospect Township, near Johannesburg, South Africa—died November 10, 2008, Castel Volturno, near Naples, Italy) was a South African-born singer who became known as Mama Afrika, one of the world’s most prominent Black African performers in the 20th century.
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28 de mai. de 2024 · Through “Welela,” Miriam Makeba showcased not only her incredible vocal abilities but also her commitment to promoting African culture and music on a global stage. Known as Mama Africa, she used her position as an artist to speak out against apartheid and advocate for social justice.
Há 3 dias · In 1960, trying to go home to South Africa to attend her mother’s funeral, Miriam Makeba learned that her passport had been revoked. She would not get home for 30 years. If the circumstances around Makeba’s life and work were often constrained by the uncertainties of exile, she also seemed to have the antidote: some inner sense of clarity and drive.
Há 3 dias · Miriam Makeba, “Jolinkomo” In 1960, trying to go home to South Africa to attend her mother’s funeral, Miriam Makeba learned that her passport had been revoked. She would not get home for 30 ...
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21 de mai. de 2024 · Makeba, also affectionately known as “Mama Afrika,” used her fame to speak about the horrors of apartheid in her native country, including via speeches to the United Nations.
Há 1 dia · South Africa’s First Lady of Song, the late Miriam Makeba, recalled the occasion in detail. “Stevie Wonder arrives, and I am asked to take care of him,” she logged in her autobiography, Makeba: My Story. “Stevie remembers me from the Copacabana show of his [in 1970] when I gave him an African statute, because I admired him.
