From: Jean Paul Mivumba
To: ugandans-at-heart
Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 2:45 AM
Subject: {UAH} South African singer Miriam Makeba dies at 76
South African singer Miriam Makeba dies at 76
43 minutes ago
ROME (AP) — Miriam Makeba, the South African singer known to fans worldwide as
"Mama Africa" who became an international symbol of the anti-apartheid
struggle, died early Monday after performing a concert in southern Italy, a
hospital said. She was 76.
An emergency room official at the Pineta Grande Clinic, a private facility in
Castel Volturno, said the singer died after being brought there. Italy's ANSA
news agency reported that Makeba may suffered a heart attack at the end of the
concert for an Italian journalist threatened by the Naples-area Mafia.
Makeba, often called "Mama Africa" and "the Empress of African Song," left
South Africa in 1959. She tried to return in 1960 for the funeral of her
mother, but her passport was revoked and she was not allowed to enter the
country.
She lived in exile for 31 years in the United States, France, Guinea in West
Africa and Belgium before having an emotional homecoming in Johannesburg in
1990, when many long-exiled South Africans returned under reforms instituted by
then-President F.W. de Klerk.
"I never understood why I couldn't come home," Ms. Makeba said upon her return.
"I never committed any crime."
In 1976, Makeba made speech before the United Nations denouncing the policy of
apartheid, or racial segregation. After that, South Africa's government-run
radio and television refused to broadcast her songs until 1989.
Entertainer Steve Allen helped launch her career in the United States and she
often toured with singer Harry Belafonte during the 1960s. In 1987 she
performed with singer Paul Simon on his "Graceland" concert tour.
One of her several marriages was to political activist Stokely Carmichael.
(This version CORRECTS that South Africa began broadcasting her songs in 1989;
FIXES typo in date. Moving on general news and entertainment services.)
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