Mama Africa is gone...

Miriam Makeba recently died. She was known to many as Mama Africa. Her music was electric, sacred, beautiful...I first heard her Pata Pata song when I was around 12...that song was my entry into South Africa and the political and human situations that were too long endured there...Rest In Peace Mama Africa.

http://www.miriammakeba.co.za/

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2008/nov/11/miriam-makeba-obituary

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pygqt0uwnuc&feature=related