IFADES Institute honors every civil right activist: Today is Miriam Makeba's 81st Birthday

IFADES Institute 

Franco American Institute of Law and Higher Education

Institut Franco Américain de Droit et de l'enseignement Supérieur

Instituto Franco Americano del Derecho y Estudios Superiores

IFADES Institute honors every civil right activist

Today is Miriam Makeba's 81st Birthday 

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 in the U.S. and around the world.


She actively campaigned against the South African system of apartheid. As a result, the South African government revoked her citizenship and right of return. After the end of apartheid she returned home. She died on 9 November 2008 after performing in a concert in Italy organized to support writer Roberto Saviano in his stand against the Camorra, a mafia-like organisation local to the region of Campania.

(Pictured: Mama Africa & Nelson Mandela)

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