Miriam Makeba – South African Singer
Miriam Makeba, in full Zensi Miriam Makeba Miriam Makeba, in full Zensi Miriam Makeba, (born 4 March 1932, Prospect Township, near Johannesburg, South Africa—died 10 November 2008, Castel Volturno, near Naples, Italy), South African-born singer who became known as Mama Afrika, one of the world’s most prominent Black African performers in the 20th century. The daughter of a Swazi mother and a Xhosa father, Makeba grew up in Sophiatown, a segregated Black township outside […]
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