I was blessed to have met Ms. Makeba “Mama” in Flint Michigan 1994. My Wife and I were allowed to spend time with she, her friends & family and Hugh Masekela. My life was richly blessed by this experience.
I have just come back from the cinema where there is now Miriam Makeba - Mama Africa, the documentary showing. I learnt so much about this phenomenal woman. The movie is a journey of powerful and joyous music that explores the plight of her people. As a black artist freely traveling the world and singing my songs in freedom I feel uterly humbled and proud of this African woman who paved the way for me and fellow artists world wide!
What an amazing, wonderful, courageous woman. Such a beautiful, powerful voice. The apartheid system in South Africa was outrageous -- unforgivable, just so egregious. Humans are so inhumane, sometimes. ~ In a world where you can be anything, be kind ~ Miriam embodied goodness and kindness. And, that voice! ❤
OK so there is one person who accidentally pressed the dislike button because surely he or she understood who Miriam Makeba was! Anyway, Miriam was absolutely fantastic. What a beautiful spirit. Thank God that he allowed us s short time with this Angel.
I was born in 1958. I missed her entirely, and that is what a segregated society costs its citizens. I just found the Click Song today. This is amazing.
we had our favourite nanny, and for the life of me, we never once thought that we be hurting her feelings, whether we left or stayed - Im now almost 60 years old, and just learnt what its like to hear from your side - God bless for the enlightenment
What a legend! If only more of our generation would aspire to be like her and others who have graciously paved the way for us to follow our dreams with our integrity intact. RIP Mama Afrika
Praise GOD He is still in Charge! and All Vengeance belong to Him. Thank you for this wonderful informative message, at this time when so much History is being erased. Blessings.❤
What a moving tribute to a legend, an icon and a mother to Africa!! Through her efforts and others, I am able to live in a free South Africa as a young woman, something she was denied. Siyabonga mama, RIP.
. Miriam Makeba is as relevant today in this Pandemic Era / Black Lives Matter era as she was in the SouthAfrican Apartheid time. So thankful for her life and stand. What an example
When I was a young child Pata Pata was very popular in my neighborhood and home especially. We learned of Mariam Makeba's struggles with apartheid from ebony and jet magazines including her marriage to Stokely Carmichael. A blessed memory!!! er marriage to Stokely Carmichael.
The South Africa that Miriam Makeba presented on the world stage when i watched her in February 1977 during FESTAC in Lagos is totally different from the South Africa that has emerged today.
Magnificent,just magnificent.First saw her with Belafonte in the sixties and several times thereafter.A giant in the entertainment world ,a giant for human rights.Sadly missed.
OMG, I just knew all this while that she's a musician but I never knew she has gone through so much and has done so much for Africa😭😭😭 I'm crying so much at how her mom died, I'm sorry 😭😭😭 RIP Mama Africa ❤️
People right now complain about mundane problems. People like Makeba & other black, brown, and other ethnic people who were alive before the 70s, experienced REAL struggles. I feel so blessed for those who fought against apartheid, communism, socialism directly.
I’m just saying if you’re the best child in the Lord He always will give wisdom to stand sternest indeed. I am glad to hear her voice and it makes my heart happy 🎉❤🎉.
Great video! Wonderful woman. Powerful, moving, inspirational way with words. Beautiful voice indeed..so beautiful she changed lives and changed a country for the better with it. So much work to be done still...God Bless Africa! ..Your time will come..
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful tribute to Miriam Makeba. I was just teaching my daughter (10yrs.) the Pata, Pata song that my gramma taught me. This song she now loves and wanted to know the story of Mama Afrika.... I could not have told it any better.... THANK YOU FOR PERSERVING THIS WONDERFUL PIECE OF HISTORY!!!!
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist. In the 1960s she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967. On 4 March 2013, Google honored her with a Google Doodle on their homepage.
Hey! Super awesome of you french to now come and commend people who were oppressed. malheureusement, c'est une blague! Still trying to deal with the shhhht that EU caused on the the world. Speaking from a different world not far from yours (in terms of astronomical distances) but vastly different. I am a R-cist and I should have the right to be because I am skilled but poor. Learned but poor. Mature but poor. and honestly, it is only because my ancestors were gullible and humble fellows.
Uau... Assisti ontem mxm ao documentário... É difícil dscrever o k senti, uma mistura d emoções... Miriam Makeba... É tão trist cmo Africana k sou saber tão pouco sobre as minhas raizes, mas felizment ainda ñ é mto tarde e... Obrigada Miriam, ''Tuapandula'' Mama Africa.
+Tom Brutis You`re talking bout blood flesh and dna while i`m talking about souls.You are obviously light years from reality,you should bring more spirituality to your world.
Tienes un admirador acá en puerto rico hermosa mujer como me ubiera querido conocerte eras preciosa y una voz hermosa dejaste huellas en nuestros corazones descansa en paz nuestra mamá África ♥️
what a great documentary! Music, imagery used very well, thank you! Such an inspirational story. That we would have the same passion for our dear continent and use what the good Lord has given us to fight for its freedom, peace and welfare of our people.
Grande Miriam sabes eras muy bonita y creo muy valiente si demasiado por esos tiempos bien duros más para mujeres aparte tu voz extraordinaria llevaste la verdad de tu país por el mundo si hasta Chayanne hizo dúo contigo muy bueno muchas gracias Miriam por lo buena eras bonita si y osada te enfrentaste a los hijos de gran Bretaña
I remember her mainly for that song at the end of the video, and it was with the news of her death that I learned more about her. Thanks for the video !!!
The information at 6:40 is wrong. I don't know if the song, "Soweto Blues" was written in 1976, but the footage was from Paul Simon's Graceland concert in Africa. It was for 27 years at that point that she had been exiled. That concert was done in 1987. Paul Simon mentioned that in the introduction.
Anyone here ever read Lily Mabura's 'The Pretoria Conspiracy'? I think the character Nandi the Singer properly describes and represents Miriam Makeba...I really am proud of this great woman!!
Africa the origin of mankind, Africa always remember the rest of the world that music existed since men started to interact with the surrounded environment. Africa always remember us that there is a purpose in all music for everything. Africa´s beat, Africa´s soul, Africa´s rhythm is in every single musician around the world, African music is in most of us since the beginnings of times
GREATNESS HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA AFRICA GREATNESS IS IN YOU AN THE BLESSING OF GOD IS UPON YOU FOR ALL YOU DONE FOR SOUTH AFRICA GOD BLESS RIP. IN JESUS NAME AMEN.
I heard the adults talking about her when I was little in the 70s. I loved her Pata Pata song and never knew she was singing it. I heard her name, but I didn't know who she was or what she did. I just found out today that she was South African, Xosa. I know I spelled it wrong, but I don't know the correct spelling. I had no idea of her place in the struggle to end apartheid. I only learned of Apartheid a few years before it ended.
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I was blessed to have met Ms. Makeba “Mama” in Flint Michigan 1994. My Wife and I were allowed to spend time with she, her friends & family and Hugh Masekela. My life was richly blessed by this experience.
You should be really lucky
I have just come back from the cinema where there is now Miriam Makeba - Mama Africa, the documentary showing. I learnt so much about this phenomenal woman. The movie is a journey of powerful and joyous music that explores the plight of her people. As a black artist freely traveling the world and singing my songs in freedom I feel uterly humbled and proud of this African woman who paved the way for me and fellow artists world wide!
Weening
What an amazing, wonderful, courageous woman. Such a beautiful, powerful voice. The apartheid system in South Africa was outrageous -- unforgivable, just so egregious. Humans are so inhumane, sometimes. ~ In a world where you can be anything, be kind ~ Miriam embodied goodness and kindness. And, that voice! ❤
OK so there is one person who accidentally pressed the dislike button because surely he or she understood who Miriam Makeba was! Anyway, Miriam was absolutely fantastic. What a beautiful spirit. Thank God that he allowed us s short time with this Angel.
One of the greatest singers in history without a doubt
I was born in 1958. I missed her entirely, and that is what a segregated society costs its citizens. I just found the Click Song today. This is amazing.
I was born in 1958 too, remember my parents dancing to the song, just found the song by accident two days ago, I could not believe 😊😮
Me too 03/04/1958
I remember her! Loved and miss her. 😢
Man, never new African music could be so beautiful, i fell in love with her vocals.
She truly deserve a solo movie based on her life.
we had our favourite nanny, and for the life of me, we never once thought that we be hurting her feelings, whether we left or stayed - Im now almost 60 years old, and just learnt what its like to hear from your side - God bless for the enlightenment
What a legend! If only more of our generation would aspire to be like her and others who have graciously paved the way for us to follow our dreams with our integrity intact. RIP Mama Afrika
Thank you, Mama Africa, for your remarkable courage, grace and talent! You were an earthly angel!
Renée-Paule Ella ✊🏿❤️🎶👸🏿💞👏🏿
March 4th, 2021 would be 89 on this blessed historic day. Amen. Thank You Queen.
March 4th 2024 I'll be 67! May you keep marching forth!
This lady should be an inspiration to all of us whatever our struggles
A short and perfect description of her life...musical genius queen, revolutionary. Her Spirit lives on...
Mariam Makeba was a great lady; unfortunately there is no other woman like her in South Africa today; it's a shame
There are many more like her, but the circumstances is different now.
Son Bleu est vraiment beau, à elle...!
Merci pour ce post, secouer les consciences n'est jamais vain!
The first African Woman to win a Grammy!!! Amazing!
Miriam Makeba one Great Women much admired by myself for years...It was my greatest joy to see her life in West Australia .. (Perth) some years ago
She is a Legend. A Star! Thank you for showcasing this great Treasure! I hate Hollywood but there needs to be a movie about this amazing soul.
Donna, Nera e nata in Sud Africa negli anni trenta e dell'Apartheid....un diamante nel deserto...meravigliosa
Mauro Nori ❤️🎶👸🏿👏🏿
What a wonderful tribute. Miriam was a legand. I'll love her forever. Rest in peace dear lady your songs and contributions will live on forever
Inspirational Woman,Essence of Purity!! Long live the music you gave to us.Thank you Miss Makeba
Praise GOD He is still in Charge! and All Vengeance belong to Him. Thank you for this wonderful informative message, at this time when so much History is being erased. Blessings.❤
What a moving tribute to a legend, an icon and a mother to Africa!! Through her efforts and others, I am able to live in a free South Africa as a young woman, something she was denied. Siyabonga mama, RIP.
. Miriam Makeba is as relevant today in this Pandemic Era / Black Lives Matter era as she was in the SouthAfrican Apartheid time. So thankful for her life and stand. What an example
When I was a young child Pata Pata was very popular in my neighborhood and home especially. We learned of Mariam Makeba's struggles with apartheid from ebony and jet magazines including her marriage to Stokely Carmichael. A blessed memory!!!
er marriage to Stokely Carmichael.
So Loved and Respected for all the good you have done for this continent ~ Mama Africa always in Our Hearts ~
hope one day this video will be viewed by millions
Miriam Makeba tu vaux mieux que tout l'or et le pétrole de l'Afrique, ta vie un belle exemple ... L'Algerie ne t'oublie pas Miriam Makeba.
What an amazing African Queen !!! You will always be loved by all Africans ❤️❤️❤️😍😍😍😍 R.I.P
More than Africans, I love her voice and I'm a folk singer . Her voice reaches inside where the colour is the same xxx
The South Africa that Miriam Makeba presented on the world stage when i watched her in February 1977 during FESTAC in Lagos is totally different from the South Africa that has emerged today.
Magnificent,just magnificent.First saw her with Belafonte in the sixties and several times thereafter.A giant in the entertainment world ,a giant for human rights.Sadly missed.
OMG, I just knew all this while that she's a musician but I never knew she has gone through so much and has done so much for Africa😭😭😭
I'm crying so much at how her mom died, I'm sorry 😭😭😭
RIP Mama Africa ❤️
People right now complain about mundane problems. People like Makeba & other black, brown, and other ethnic people who were alive before the 70s, experienced REAL struggles. I feel so blessed for those who fought against apartheid, communism, socialism directly.
I’m just saying if you’re the best child in the Lord He always will give wisdom to stand sternest indeed. I am glad to hear her voice and it makes my heart happy 🎉❤🎉.
I grew up hearing her and hearing about her.not understood nothing and I took her for granted.
Mama Makeba is mama world it self.She is full of love for us all.Lets celebrate all together and love eweryone in this world..
You ARE SOO MISSED REST IN PEACE QUEEN OF AFRICA..
A beautiful story of an amazing lady. Thank you.
Thank you🙏
Humbled!
She was an amazing woman
Stunning too! Simply beautiful.
All I can say is respect to Miriam Makeba, respect to her music, respect to her as a human being and artist
Miriam Makeba did a huge amount for South Africa. I became a fan in 1960.
An absolutely beautiful woman. Thank you, Ms. Makeba.
So proud to be born in the same country as such inspirational women like these
Ms. Makeba I always thought was one the most BEAUTIFUL LADY OF SOUTH AFRICA WITH A BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT. REST IN PEACE
Such an inspirational woman! RIP- Mama Africa.
Great video! Wonderful woman. Powerful, moving, inspirational way with words. Beautiful voice indeed..so beautiful she changed lives and changed a country for the better with it. So much work to be done still...God Bless Africa! ..Your time will come..
Thank you for uploading this. Powerful and beautiful. A great education for all of us. Blessings.
LALA AFRICA , vive la liberté, vive Miriam Makeba, vive l'Algérie
Miriam Makeba. tu chantes l'Afrique. Le colon est toujours là. Mè tu nous a ouvert les yeux. le combat se pousuit...
hélas oui ,et on a ouvert les yeux..... à moitié.....!
She was a wonderful artist and human being. RIP, Mama Africa.
I did not understand the language but the music as well tone touched my soul, awesome singing
RIP..Saw her sing
Live in Sweden..just before she got the news that her child daughter died...wonderful Lady...
💖
Thank you so much for sharing this wonderful tribute to Miriam Makeba. I was just teaching my daughter (10yrs.) the Pata, Pata song that my gramma taught me. This song she now loves and wanted to know the story of Mama Afrika.... I could not have told it any better.... THANK YOU FOR PERSERVING THIS WONDERFUL PIECE OF HISTORY!!!!
Every person in the world should have this video as standard curriculum. WTG Mama Africa!
Love you sweet Mother of Ourstory!
This is beautifully put together, thank you for sharing👊🏿👑💪🏿
Peace and blessing you have always been a diplomat for freedom worldwide. Sister in law. Gone but never forgotten
she is truly Mama Africa!
She sings for everyone who doesn’t have a voice.🙏💕
Miriam makeba
I did not know your whole story!
The voice of south africa. i have listened to you since i was 9 yrs old. I love you!
Excelente. Gracias! Saludo desde Buenos Aires, Argentina.✋
Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 - 9 November 2008), nicknamed Mama Africa, was a Grammy Award-winning South African singer and civil rights activist.
In the 1960s she was the first artist from Africa to popularize African music around the world. She is best known for the song "Pata Pata", first recorded in 1957 and released in the U.S. in 1967.
On 4 March 2013, Google honored her with a Google Doodle on their homepage.
Great artist and great person !
Une femme spéciale, en tant qu'artiszte et humanité !
Hey! Super awesome of you french to now come and commend people who were oppressed. malheureusement, c'est une blague!
Still trying to deal with the shhhht that EU caused on the the world. Speaking from a different world not far from yours (in terms of astronomical distances) but vastly different. I am a R-cist and I should have the right to be because I am skilled but poor. Learned but poor. Mature but poor. and honestly, it is only because my ancestors were gullible and humble fellows.
Uau... Assisti ontem mxm ao documentário...
É difícil dscrever o k senti, uma mistura d emoções...
Miriam Makeba... É tão trist cmo Africana k sou saber
tão pouco sobre as minhas raizes, mas felizment ainda ñ é mto tarde e...
Obrigada Miriam, ''Tuapandula'' Mama Africa.
She is so beautiful and strong! She truly was Mama Afrika
This was beautifully done. Thank you so much for putting the time to educate about such a world changing artist.
Amazing Woman. I celebrate her remarkable talent, courage, brilliance and grace. Immortalized Mama Africa 🎉
Q lindo!!Obrigada por compartilhar ela jamais vai ser esquecida!
I'm here because of Jain's BTS of Makeba song. Shame on my part that I didn't know of such an influential person untill now.
"IF YOU ARE THE BIG BIG TREE,WE ARE THE SMALL AXE." BOB MARLEY - Ethiopian soul born in jamaica-
+Tom Brutis You`re talking bout blood flesh and dna while i`m talking about souls.You are obviously light years from reality,you should bring more spirituality to your world.
Jones Manning
Tienes un admirador acá en puerto rico hermosa mujer como me ubiera querido conocerte eras preciosa y una voz hermosa dejaste huellas en nuestros corazones descansa en paz nuestra mamá África ♥️
God bless her soul...this video brought tears to my eyes... oooo
Everything about her blasts me, even as a young girl. I always dream of being my generation Mariam Makeba, my hero
THANK YOU FOR CARING! i give props to you for doing this and sharing your open minded knowledge with the world.
Truly an amazing woman!
Who would possibly dislike this??
I am so proud of you People
Much love for you and Makeba💕💗💗💗🙏🏼🙏🏼🎶✨
What a history.
She was so gorgeous too.
Wonderful presentation and history,
what a great documentary! Music, imagery used very well, thank you! Such an inspirational story. That we would have the same passion for our dear continent and use what the good Lord has given us to fight for its freedom, peace and welfare of our people.
Grande Miriam sabes eras muy bonita y creo muy valiente si demasiado por esos tiempos bien duros más para mujeres aparte tu voz extraordinaria llevaste la verdad de tu país por el mundo si hasta Chayanne hizo dúo contigo muy bueno muchas gracias Miriam por lo buena eras bonita si y osada te enfrentaste a los hijos de gran Bretaña
I remember her mainly for that song at the end of the video, and it was with the news of her death that I learned more about her. Thanks for the video !!!
Learnt so much about Miriam. Thanks so much for uploading this.
May her quest for justice be reincarnated in our hearts.
Rev. Andrew Momolue Diggs
Splendid video, top class. RIP Mama Africa, thanks for sharing uploader.
A truly wonderful tribute to an amazing woman.
Thank you so much for a beautiful tribute with a brief history of Miriam Makeba's life!
The information at 6:40 is wrong. I don't know if the song, "Soweto Blues" was written in 1976, but the footage was from Paul Simon's Graceland concert in Africa. It was for 27 years at that point that she had been exiled. That concert was done in 1987. Paul Simon mentioned that in the introduction.
Anyone here ever read Lily Mabura's 'The Pretoria Conspiracy'? I think the character Nandi the Singer properly describes and represents Miriam Makeba...I really am proud of this great woman!!
An amazing inspiration.A heroine of our lifetime.
Here in 2024 We’re proud of your bravery Mama Africa ❤
Africa the origin of mankind, Africa always remember the rest of the world that music existed since men started to interact with the surrounded environment. Africa always remember us that there is a purpose in all music for everything. Africa´s beat, Africa´s soul, Africa´s rhythm is in every single musician around the world, African music is in most of us since the beginnings of times
GREATNESS HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMA AFRICA GREATNESS IS IN YOU AN THE BLESSING OF GOD IS UPON YOU FOR ALL YOU DONE FOR SOUTH AFRICA GOD BLESS RIP. IN JESUS NAME AMEN.
Very talented. Her music feels like it was here from beginning of time.
I heard the adults talking about her when I was little in the 70s. I loved her Pata Pata song and never knew she was singing it. I heard her name, but I didn't know who she was or what she did. I just found out today that she was South African, Xosa. I know I spelled it wrong, but I don't know the correct spelling. I had no idea of her place in the struggle to end apartheid. I only learned of Apartheid a few years before it ended.
The very first song on this video is Baxabene Oxamu which can be found on the album Sangoma
Thank you for posting this wonderful video...very educational. God bless you and continue the good work.
I truly hope that someone makes a movie of her life. I also hope that the movie inspires people to be good to one another.
Whites do indeed need to be good to others! But a movie will not make it happen ✊🏿
Une vraie Artiste chanteuse ! Quelle belle voie africaine !,Hommage pour Mariam Makiba.
Belíssima mensagem
Linda mulher é Miriam makeba
Merecido o título de mama África
Deus abençoe Shalon Paulinho