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Africa has her mysteries and even a wise man cannot understand them. But a wise man respects them.

Girls are the future mothers of our society, and it is important that we focus on their well-being.

Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know ...

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Which goes to show you, you can make all the laws you want, but you cannot change people's ways. If ...

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Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way yo...

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In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much gr...

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Miriam Makeba

Singer

Born: 1932-03-04

Died: 2008-11-09

Miriam Makeba (4 May 1932 – 10 November 2008) |was a South African Grammy-awarded singer, songwriter, author, actress, former UN ambassador, and civil rights activist, also known as "The Empress of African Song" and Mama Africa.More