South African singer Miriam Makeba died this week at age 76.
Nicknamed Mama Africa, Makeba was known throughout the world not only for her singing but for her stand against South Africa’s apartheid regime. As this BBC story notes, Nelson Mandela has called her both the “mother of our struggle” and “South Africa’s first lady of song.”
Miriam Makeba was the first black artist to win a Grammy award, in 1965.