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Come Back, Africa: Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba was a South African singer and civil rights activist who opposed apartheid. She began her professional singing career in the 1950s and gained worldwide recognition for her music in various genres including afropop, jazz, and world music. After appearing in an anti-apartheid film, she moved to the United States where her career flourished, releasing several successful albums. However, her marriage to a Black Panther member was poorly received and she moved to Guinea, continuing to write and perform music critical of apartheid until her death in 2008.

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Come Back, Africa: Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba was a South African singer and civil rights activist who opposed apartheid. She began her professional singing career in the 1950s and gained worldwide recognition for her music in various genres including afropop, jazz, and world music. After appearing in an anti-apartheid film, she moved to the United States where her career flourished, releasing several successful albums. However, her marriage to a Black Panther member was poorly received and she moved to Guinea, continuing to write and perform music critical of apartheid until her death in 2008.

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Miriam Makeba​ (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008) was a South African singer, actor, and ​civil

rights​ activist. She was a vocal opponent of ​apartheid​ and white-minority government, in South
Africa and elsewhere. Associated with genres including ​afropop​, ​jazz​, and ​world music​, she began
singing professionally in the 1950s. She had a brief role in the anti-apartheid film ​Come Back, Africa
(1959), which led to performances in Venice, London, and New York City. Makeba moved to the
United States, where her career flourished, and released several albums and songs, including the hit
"​Pata Pata​" (1967). She and ​Harry Belafonte​ received a Grammy Award for their 1965 album ​An
Evening with Belafonte/Makeba​. Her 1968 marriage to ​Stokely Carmichael​ of the ​Black Panther
Party​ was not well received in the US, and she moved to ​Guinea​, where she wrote and performed
music more explicitly critical of apartheid. Nicknamed Mama Africa, she was one of the first African
musicians to receive worldwide recognition. Her music, in ​Nelson Mandela​'s words, "inspired a
powerful sense of hope in all of us".

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