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 ...

ROMEROME — 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 ...

JOHANNESBURG, South Africa -- Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for more than 30 years under apartheid, died after ...

Miriam Makeba, the exiled South African singer who said her greatest triumph was to finally sing her way back home, died Sunday after collapsing on stage at a concert in Italy. She was 76. Her friend ...

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 ...

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 ...

African music icon Miriam Makeba’s life was defined by duality. She was a proud South African who embraced both her heritage and Black American culture but didn’t feel completely accepted in either ...

The story of Miriam Makeba, one of the most important voices in South Africa’s transformation from apartheid to the presidency of Nelson Mandela, is being turned into a feature film by Suzanne de ...

JOHANNESBURG, South AfricaJOHANNESBURG, 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 ...

The sudden passing of our beloved Miriam has saddened us and our nation. ... Despite her tremendous sacrifice and the pain she felt to leave behind her beloved family and her country when she went ...

Miriam Makeba, the South African singer known to fans worldwide as Mama Africa, performs during her last concert in Castel Volturno, southern Italy, late Sunday night, Nov. 9, 2008. Photo by (AP Photo ...

Miriam Makeba, the South African singer who wooed the world with her sultry voice but was banned from her own country for 30 years under apartheid, died early Monday after a concert in Italy. She was ...