South African Singer Miriam Makeba Dies
by Renee Blodgett on November 12, 2008 at 8:25 pm
Miriam Makeba passed away right after a performance in Italy on November 9th.
Writes the New York Times about her history and life, “Miriam Makeba had been a prominent exiled opponent of apartheid since the South African authorities revoked her passport in 1960 and refused to allow her to return after she traveled abroad. In South Africa, she stood as an enduring emblem of the travails of black people under the apartheid system of racial segregation that ended with the release from prison of Nelson Mandela in 1990 and the country’s first fully democratic elections in 1994.”
