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Mama Africa!

How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song

By (author) Kathryn Erskine
Illustrated by Charly Palmer
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, New York, United States
Published: 10th Oct 2017
Dimensions: w 198mm h 279mm d 9mm
Weight: 415g
Interest age: From 6 years
ISBN-10: 0374303010
ISBN-13: 9780374303013
Barcode No: 9780374303013
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Synopsis
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 similarto 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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