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'Mama Africa'
Ms Makeba was born in Johannesburg on 4 March 1932 and was a leading symbol in the struggle against apartheid.
Her singing career started in the 1950s as she mixed jazz with traditional South African songs.
She came to international attention in 1959 during a tour of the United States with the South African group the Manhattan Brothers.
She was forced into exile soon after when her passport was revoked after starring in an anti-apartheid documentary and did not return to her native country until Nelson Mandela was released from prison.
Makeba was the first black African woman to win a Grammy Award, which she shared with Harry Belafonte in 1965.
She was African music's first world star, says the BBC's Richard Hamilton, blending different styles long before the phrase "world music" was coined.
After her divorce from fellow South African musician Hugh Masekela she married American civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael.
It was while living in exile in the US that she released her most famous songs, Pata Pata and the Click Song.
Hii pengine si mahali pake lakini huyu mama ali transcend music na alikuwa sauti ya bara letu huko ughaimuni! Naomba wakati tunasherehekea ushindi wa mwanetu Obama tuchukue muda kuwakumbuka hawa waliotupigania kuanzia Afrika hadi huko ughaimuni (aliolewa na Stokely Carmichael). Huyu na wenzake wakina Dorothy Masuka ndio waliopeperusha bendera ya uafrika wetu.
Upumzike kwema Mama Afrika! Upumzike kwema Miriam Makeba!
Amandla.
Miriam Makeba performed in a concert on Sunday night in southern Italy shortly before she died early Monday.
RIP Mama Makeba