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Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song

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Binding: Hardcover
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ISBN: 9780374303013
Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux
Language: English
Page Count: 48
Publication Date: 10/10/2017
Size: 11.22" l x 8.03" w x 0.36
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Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award–winning South African singer, rose to fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid - a brutal system of segregation similar to American Jim Crow laws. Mama Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg; in exile, at a rally beside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and before the United Nations.

Set defiantly in the present tense, this biography offers readers an intimate view of Makeba’s fight for equality. Kathryn Erskine’s call-and-response style text and Charly Palmer’s bold illustrations come together in a raw, riveting duet of protest song and praise poem. A testament to how a single voice helped to shake up the world - and can continue to do so.

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