The only US hit for South African songstress and civil rights activist Miriam Makeba. It was mostly sung in the Xhosa language of her native land. In the mid 60's Miriam was married to her countryman, trumpeter Hugh Masakela. She divorced him and married activist Stokely Carmichael, a leader of the Black Panther Party. That move cost her a sizable chunk of her American audience.
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