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Miriam Makeba: Singer banned from her native South Africa for fighting apartheid (Independent) |
‘Retire? I will sing till the day I die” declared Miriam Makeba in her 2004 biography Makeba. True to her word, the most famous African woman of her generation – popularly known as “Mama Africa” – had just taken part in a concert in Italy in support of the writer Roberto Saviano on Sunday when she was taken ill.
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