In Memory of Mama Africa

  “I never understood why I couldn’t come home … I never committed any crime.”
– Miriam Makeba, exiled from her native South Africa whose government revoked her citizenship.

Miriam Makeba performing in Barcelona, January 2008 © Gustau Nacarino/Reuters

The Click Song (1966)

 In poetry and melody, in rhetoric and rhythm, Miriam Makeba sang and spoke her truth to the world.
– Al Young

Miriam Makeba Wikipedia Biography

International Herald Tribune Obituary

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