Makeba To Retire

After 40 years on stage, Miriam Makeba is packing it in at the end of her current tour. “Makeba, aka Mama Africa, grew up in a Johannesburg township, was jailed as a baby along with her mother, was a servant for white families and graduated to jazz singing and immortality with numbers such as Malaika, Pata Pata and Africa is Where My Heart Lies.”