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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. African music icon Miriam Makeba’s life was defined by duality. She was a proud South African who embraced both her heritage and ...

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Zenzile Miriam Makeba’s decades-long award-winning musical career and her importance in African history and culture will be honored on stage by The Repertory Theater. To begin the story, it makes ...

Somizi Mhlongo is one of many South Africans disappointed at Brit actress Cynthia Erivo being cast as Miriam Makeba in an ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa She died just how she wanted to singing on stage for a good cause. And her recorded songs wafted out of taxis and radios, as fellow Africans struggled with their grief at ...

To be the voice of a nation speaking to the wider world is a tough mission for any performer. To be the voice of an entire continent is exponentially more difficult. Both were mantles that the South ...

South Africa’s world-famous singer and activist, Miriam Makeba (1932-2008) would have turned 90 on March 4th. Born Zenzile Miriam Makeba in Johannesburg’s Prospect township, she had a life of ...

As the fortunes of people change, the music that propels them lives on to both remind and inspire. That is the abiding takeaway from Mika Kaurismäki’s appealing 2011 documentary “Mama Africa: Miriam ...

BERLIN (Hollywood Reporter) - Director Mika Kaurismaki stitches together archive footage and fresh interviews to pay overdue cinematic homage to legendary South African singer Miriam Makeba in the ...

Our final story this hour is a remembrance of one of Africa's first international superstars. Miriam Makeba fought apartheid in South Africa through music. Last night, during a performance in Italy, ...