Cameroon: Snapshot - Memories of Miriam

23 November 2008
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No amount of eulogies and tributes in honour of Miriam Makeba can be considered enough to match the fame and fortitude of that Grand Old Lady who dropped dead a fortnight ago in Italy doing what she loved doing best - using her musical talent to fight a noble cause; the cause of freedom from oppression, freedom from racism.

She checked out of this sinful world in a spectacular manner at the age of 76 shortly after a stage performance in honour of six Africans who were assassinated in a racially motivated attack in the South of Italy and her dramatic exit was a traffic reminder of the popular saying that a Spartan dies but never surrenders.

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