 Miriam Zenzi Makeba. Pic by Endre Dalen The Pineta Grande clinic in Castel Volturno, near the southern city of Naples, said Makeba died early Monday of a heart attack.
Miriam Makeba collapsed on stage Sunday night after singing one of her most famous hits "Pata Pata," her family said in a statement. Her grandson, Nelson Lumumba Lee, was with her as well as her longtime friend, Italian promoter Roberto Meglioli. "Whilst this great lady was alive she would say: 'I will sing until the last day of my life'," the statement said. Castel Volturno Mayor Francesco Nuzzo said Miriam Makeba sang at a concert in solidarity with six immigrants from Ghana who were shot to death in September in the town, an attack that investigators have blamed on organized crime.
The death of "Mama Africa," as she was known, plunged South Africa into shock and mourning. "One of the greatest songstresses of our time has ceased to sing," Foreign Affairs minister Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said in a statement. |
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 One of this year’s guests at Oslo Poesifestival is the African American literary icon, Amiri Baraka. Born as Everett LeRoi Jones in Newark, New Jersey, in October 1934, Baraka is considered as one of the most influential spokesperson for African American literature and theatre in USA today. Baraka’s literary work and life story is closely connected to the transformation of the American society during the 60’s and 70’s era, described as an era of African American renaissance. It is a period that witnessed the assassinations of both Malcom X and Martin Luther King as well as the growth of the Black Panther Movement and the Nation of Islam. This was also the period James Brown and Motown came to town. It was during this turbulent epoch that Everet LeRoi Jones canged his name to name to Imamu Amiri Baraka, after converting to the Kawaida Sect of the Muslim faith. He later dropped the first name, Imamu, which in Kiswahili means a spiritual leader. |
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