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Miriam Makeba

Mark Hudson, Daily Telegraph, March 2002

BEFORE MIRIAM Makeba's first venture outside South Africa in 1959, her mother, a sangoma or traditional medium, was warned by one of her familiar spirits that the young woman would never return.

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