Goodbye, Mama Africa.

Miriam Makeba has died. She was beloved for both her inspirational music and her outspokenness against apartheid.

Here are her last major interview (Guardian) and an obituary (NYT).

Below is a 1968 recording of her hit "Pata Pata."


And here is "Qongqothwane," commonly called the "Click Song." The clicking -- so foreign to us anglophones -- is characteristic of Xhosa.