Music
Before the Internet: 10 African Songs That Went Global the Old-Fashioned Way
From "Mbube" to "7 Seconds": 10 African songs that went global before the internet, sold millions and crossed…
Miriam Makeba
Music
“Malaika”: the Swahili love song from Kenya that Miriam Makeba took around the world
"Malaika", a Swahili love song recorded in Kenya by Fadhili William around 1960, became one of the best-known…
Arts + Culture
South Africa cancelled Miriam Makeba’s passport when she tried to bury her mother. She spent 31 years in exile
In 1960, the apartheid government revoked Miriam Makeba's passport when she tried to return home for her mother's…