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Makeba, Miriam (məkā`bə), 1932–, African singer. She became the first black South African to achieve international fame and she played a fundamental role in introducing African music African music, the music of the indigenous peoples of Africa. Sub-Saharan African music has as its distinguishing feature a rhythmic complexity common to no other region.
..... Click the link for more information. to the West. Exiled from South Africa in the early 1960s because of her outspoken political views, she settled in the United States, where she was celebrated both as a performer and as a symbol of opposition to apartheid apartheid (əpärt`hīt) [Afrik.
..... Click the link for more information. . Her first husband was Hugh Masekela Masekela, Hugh (măs'əkĕl`ə), 1939–, South African singer, composer, band leader, and trumpet player.
..... Click the link for more information. . Following her marriage to the black militant leader Stokely Carmichael, she was declared unwelcome by the U.S. government and moved to Guinea (1969–84). She returned to her homeland after Nelson Mandela Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, 1936?–, b. Nomzamo Winifred Madikizela, in 1958. A social worker, she joined the ANC and was her husband's champion while he was in prison, being herself imprisoned and "banned" several times.
..... Click the link for more information. was released from prison in 1990.

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See her autobiography (1988).