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Miriam Makeba - Click Song (Qongqothwane) (Live)

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Zenzile Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, is a Grammy Award-winning South African singer. In the 1960s, she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967.

She recorded and toured with many popular artists, such as Harry Belafonte, Paul Simon, and her former husband Hugh Masekela. Makeba campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. The South African government responded by revoking her passport in 1960 and her citizenship and right of return in 1963. As the apartheid system crumbled she returned home for the first time in 1990.

Makeba died of a heart attack on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organised to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania.


Language:
English, Other
Curriculum Alignment:
CAPS aligned
Publication Date:
2022-04-12
Grades:
10, 11, 12
Audience:
Learners
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Video
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Licensed to YouTube by Sony ATV Publishing, LatinAutorPerf, UNIAO BRASILEIRA DE EDITORAS DE MUSICA - UBEM, LatinAutor - Warner Chappell, Warner Chappell, and 7 Music Rights Societies
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