The legacy of iconic singer Miriam Makeba and her art of activism
There’s nobody in Africa who made the world more aware of what was happening in South Africa than Miriam Makeba.
There’s nobody in Africa who made the world more aware of what was happening in South Africa than Miriam Makeba.
We’ve seen important collaborations between hip hop artists across Africa and in the diaspora that go back to the early 1990s. But we see an increase after 2010. When African artists started using social media and file sharing, they were able to increase their collaborations.
Sibongile made everyone love her – no mean feat in the world of singers, especially opera singers. She was a prima donna, although not in temperament, and was most certainly South Africa’s ‘diva’.
Research in music archaeology in southern Africa has just begun. Available evidence dates back from around 10,000 years ago, from the Later Stone Age up to the Iron Age. The artefacts fall into two groups, namely aerophones, where sound is produced by vibrating air, and idiophones, where sound is produced by solid material vibrating.