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Selasa, 05 Maret 2013

Miriam Makeba: The fame and exile of 'Mama Africa'

Miriam Makeba: The fame and exile of 'Mama Africa'

On March 4, Google celebrated singer and activist Miriam Makeba's 81st birthday with a Google Doodle. Makeba was born in South Africa in 1932 and lived through the rise and fall of apartheid, a system of legally enforced racial segregation that

Miriam Makeba Honored with Google Doodle. Today, Google is celebrating South African singer and political activist Miriam Makeba. Makeba was born in Johannesburg in 1932. Her professional career began in 1950 as part

MUMBAI: Google doodle marked 81st birthday of 'Mama Africa' aka Miriam Makeba, a Grammy-award winning South African singer and civil rights activist. She is best known for the song 'Pata Pata' and her fight against

Ms. Makeba played a big role in several important cultural movements across her 50-year career. She stood up against apartheid, acting as one of South Africa's most vocal activists. She played with Paul Simon and Harry Belafonte, introducing African

But Ms. Makeba's legacy is one of personal sacrifice. After she became a vocal critic of apartheid, the South African government took away her passport, her family, and her home. But she continued her activism and became Mama Africa, the widely

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