MAKEBA: WE JUST HAVE TO KEEP FIGHTING!

South African music icon Miriam Makeba died on this day in 2008 during a performance at a concert in Italy. For decades, her music ruled the African airwaves. Her melodious voice propelled her to the top of the music charts across continent, but it was her political activism against South Africa's apartheid regime that made Miriam Makeba a global icon.

Fondly known as Mama Africa, Makeba used her music and fame to put a spotlight on the regime's atrocities against Black people in South Africa. She also worked hard to unite Africans - including in the diaspora - in their struggle against systemic racial oppression.

In this clip, Makeba explains why Africans around the world are engaged in the same struggle. She reminds us that diaspora Africans were taken out of Africa, and that - whether we are in Mozambique or Brazil, in Namibia or the US - actually, we are brothers and sisters. The fight for total liberation goes on, and it’s by uniting in our struggle that we’ll achieve our aim.

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Mariam Makeba speak 🗣


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2024-04-03 05:17:32

and do you see some principle difference between the struggle of the africans
in countries like
south africa mozambique angola
on the one hand
and on the other hand in countries like brazil and united states
where they are in minority
there is really no difference in in in the
the struggle between
the people you have mentioned because we are all
africans we were just put in different countries by
white people who took their people from africa and spread them
and it is true that our problems are the same
now
saying that they are a minority
this really means nothing because the white man
wherever he is whether he is in the majority or the minority
he rules
it just shows you
f f to it just proves to everyone
that we just have to keep fighting
we just have to fight that much more
because it doesn't matter whether he's majority or minority he's always on top