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afrikanwomen: Mamphela Aletta Ramphele is a South African...

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Mamphela Aletta Ramphele is a South African academic, businesswoman, doctor and was an anti-apartheid activist. She is a current trustee on the board of the Rockefeller Foundation in New York. She completed her schooling at Setotolwane High School in 1966 and enrolled for pre-medical courses at the University of the North. In 1968 Ramphele was accepted into the University of Natal’s Medical School (then the only medical university that allowed black students to enroll without prior...Read Full Story

MaringaInc: Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. - Miriam Makeba #quote

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MaringaInc: Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being. - Miriam Makeba #quoteRead Full Story

MaringaInc: But if you are going to wear blinders then you do not know the world. - Miriam Makeba #quote

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Mama Africa

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Two songs here from Sangoma , the best album of the late Miriam Makeba . Sangoma is a collection of Xhosa and Zulu folk songs that covers the lot: delight in children, loneliness and ostracism, fear of illness and deliverance from same, celebration at release from captivity, bereavement, intimations of immortality, warnings to horny and impetuous youth: if that's not getting your money's worth, I don't know what is. Totally marvellous stuff that you should investigate at once. The first one...Read Full Story

AFI 2011: MAMA AFRICA

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Nelson Mandela and Miriam Makeba in Mama Africa. Songs of the free By Ed Rampell Mika Kaurismäki's Mama Africa is a documentary about the singer Miriam Makeba, a sort of South African version of Paul Robeson. Like her African-American counterpart, Makeba used her talent, celebrity and personal wealth to support progressive causes -- most notably in favor of Black rights -- and was made to pay quite a heavy price. After Makeba’s songs appeared on the soundtrack of an anti- apartheid doc around...Read Full Story
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Trailer: 'The Story of Soul!' feat Stokely Carmichael, Miriam Makeba, James...
In late 1967, PBS aired the inaugural episode of Ellis Haizlip’s show, SOUL!. Shot at the WNET studios in New York, it would be the first nationally syndicated television program in history dedicated solely to African-American culture. Through legendary music and interviews from the show itself, archive footage and present day discussion, feature length documentary The Story of SOUL! will recount the story of an historic African-American...  
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Angelique Kidjo pays tribute to Miriam Makeba
Benin diva Angelique Kidjo dedicated a concert to the legendary late South African singer and anti-apartheid campaigner Miriam Makeba in New York. Ms Kidjo, one of the most visible African entertainers on the world scene, is also well known for her work as ...  
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Uganda: Catering for the 40+ Crowd
And the music that plays in this section is strictly music that was released before 1990 so you will dance to the likes of Franco Luambo Makiadi, Michael Jackson, Miriam Makeba and all the pop, Lingala, funk, old school hits that made the 60s, 70s and 80s ...  
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Bay Area repertory film picks, Feb. 2-5
"Come Back Africa" was filmed illegally; among its achievements is the discovery of singer Miriam Makeba. Rogosin was so frustrated that the film didn't get distribution in America he began the famed Bleeker Street Cinema in New York, opening "Come Back.  
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Rolling Stone Bets On Country Music
An ex-husband of late diva Miriam Makeba, his lifetime of sex, booze and cocaine perhaps warrant inclusion in the pantheon of rock. The magazine also hopes to entice readers with exposes on local rock band Blk Jks, on its way to record in the Malian ...  
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