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Legendary South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba (born 1932) rose to international fame during the 1960s, attracting a wide following through concert appearances and recordings. Although capable of great vocal...
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The celebrated African singer Zenzi Miriam Makeba was born on March 4, 1932, in Prospect, near Johannesburg, South Africa. She died at the age of 76 from heart failure on November 9, 2008, in Castel Volturno, Italy,...
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1932-2008 Singer, writer, activist In a career spanning more than five decades, the South African singer and political activist Miriam Makeba established herself as a powerful voice in the fight against apartheid—the...
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Miriam Makeba was the most prominent South African singer of her generation, and of the 20th century. Her international appeal as a performer and recording artist was, for portions of her career, a platform for her...
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South African singer and songwriter Makeba introduced South African folk songs into the African jazz musical style that swept Europe and the United States in the 1950's, and her appearances spotlighted declining...
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1932— Singer, writer, activist South African singer and political activist Miriam Makeba is a preeminent chronicler of the black South African experience. In a career spanning more than three decades, she has...
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Singer, activist [Image not available for copyright reasons] South African singer and political activist Miriam Makeba is chief among those who have proclaimed the experiences of black South Africans. Throughout a...
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1310L1959 Robert Sobukwe (1924–1978) founds the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), an antiapartheid organization, in 1959. Tenzin Gyatso (1935–), the Dalai Lama, flees Tibet in March 1959, in the aftermath of a failed...
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See index for CA sketch: Born March 4, 1932, in Johannesburg, South Africa; died of a heart attack, November 10, 2008, in Castel Volturno, Italy. Singer, songwriter, recording artist, actress, human rights activist, and...
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South African Xosa singer and activist, one of Africa's greatest vocalists, who lived in exile for 30 years, before being welcomed back to her homeland in the post-apartheid era. Name variations: (nickname) Mama Africa;...
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(South Africa/Guinea, 1932– ) Miriam Zensi Makeba, the preeminent African female singer, was significant in popularizing African music in the West and became a popular figure in the antiapartheid campaign. Makeba...
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Maya Angelou knew HARRY BELA-FONTE and Miriam Makeba through their efforts in both the performance arts and in the CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. One of the world’s leading African performers in the 20th century, Makeba was born...
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South African Xosa singer and activist. Born Zenzile Makeba, Mar 4, 1932, in Prospect, South Africa; attended Kimerton Training Institute in Pretoria; m. James Kubay; m. singer Sonny Pillay (div.); m. Hugh Masekela...
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Sixties icon and singer Miriam Makeba was born in South Africa, the daughter of a housekeeper and a Shell clerk. Makeba discovered music early in her life, realizing that it was something that could lift her out of the...
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1 I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit. I look at a bird and I see...
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Uche OnyebadiTexas Christian University, USA Lindani Mbunyuza-MemaniSouthern Illinois University, USA Credit for South Africa’s liberation from the apartheid system of government under the National Party usually goes...
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Writer, college teacher. Personal: Born Jan 1, 1950?, Philadelphia, PA; son of Alexander and Lois; children: Gyanni, Alexs & Chekesha. Career: Macalester, lectr, 1992–98; Univ Minn, lectr, African-Am & African Studies,...
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Legendary South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba (born 1932) rose to international fame during the 1960s, attracting a wide following through concert appearances and recordings. Although capable of great vocal...
Miriam Makeba, also known as “Mama Africa” and the “Empress of African Song,” was Africa's first artist to popularize African music and culture in the United States and internationally. Makeba became Africa's first...
Born to Caswell and Nomkomndelo “Christina” Makeba on March 4, 1932, Miriam “Zenzi” Makeba, also known as Mama Afrika, began singing with Johannesburg’s Cuban Brothers. She later joined the famous Manhattan Brothers,...