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His 12-year-old daughter Cindy called Makeba "an inspiration."
Macleans.ca 2008
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His 12-year-old daughter Cindy called Makeba "an inspiration."
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The Recording Academy released a statement calling Makeba "a citizen of the world" and said
Black Entertainment : Black News : Urban News : Hip Hop News - EURweb.com 2008
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Congo's minister of culture, Esdras Kambale, called Makeba a role model for all Africans.
China Confidential 2008
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Others wore vibrant traditional robes that recalled Makeba's own Afro chic - as well as the poet Langston Hughes's call to remember the dead with "one, last trumpet note of sun."
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Others wore vibrant traditional robes that recalled Makeba's own Afro chic - as well as the poet Langston Hughes's call to remember the dead with "one, blaring trumpet note of sun."
Macleans.ca 2008
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Stokely Carmichael and Miriam Makeba make their way through the crowd on Auburn Avenue.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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Belafonte and Makeba had performed for President John Kennedy just weeks before and were in Atlanta for an SCLC benefit.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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“Stokely, baby!” came cries from the onlookers as Stokely Carmichael arrived with six bodyguards and his fiancée, South African singer Miriam Makeba.
Burial for a King Rebecca Burns 2011
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; Ofeibea Quist-Arcton recalls the recent death of South African legend Miriam Makeba and Wanyama wa Chebusiri interviews Reverend Stephen Mburu, a pastor at the Kiambaa church near Eldoret in western Kenya who was attacked and left to die after violence following polls a year ago
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