Miriam Makeba, a Grammy Award-winning South African singer, rose to
fame in the hearts of her people at the pinnacle of apartheid-a
brutal system of segregation similarto American Jim Crow laws. Mama
Africa, as they called her, raised her voice to help combat these
injustices at jazz clubs in Johannesburg; in exile, at a rally
beside Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.; and before the United Nations.
Set defiantly in the present tense, this biography offers readers
an intimate view of Makeba's fight for equality. Kathryn Erskine's
call-and-response style text and Charly Palmer's bold illustrations
come together in a raw, riveting duet of protest song and praise
poem. A testament to how a single voice helped to shake up the
world - and can continue to do so.
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