Makeba!

1968 studio album by Miriam Makeba

Makeba!

Studio album by

Miriam Makeba

Released

1968

Genre

World music, African music

Label

Reprise

Miriam Makeba chronology

Pata Pata
(1967)

Makeba!
(1968)

Keep Me in Mind
(1970)

Makeba! is a 1968 album by Miriam Makeba. Liner notes were written by A. B. Spellman who classed the album the “most African of her recent releases".^[1]

Track listing

Umoya 3:05
Uyadela 2:25
Asilimanga 1:53
Umquokozo 3:20
U-Mngoma 2:30
Emavungwini (Down In The Dumps) 2:09
Iphi Ndilela 3:40
Singa Madoda 2:45
Magwala Ndini 2:35
Sibongile 2:20
Hamba Naye 2:31

References

^ Ruth Feldstein, How It Feels to Be Free: Black Women Entertainers and the Civil Rights 019971827X - 2013 "This album was, according to these liner notes, the “most African of her recent releases.

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Miriam Makeba

Studio albums

Miriam Makeba (1960)
The Many Voices of Miriam Makeba (1962)
The World of Miriam Makeba (1963)
The Voice of Africa (1964)
Makeba Sings! (1965)
An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba (1965)
The Magic of Makeba (1965)
The Magnificent Miriam Makeba (1966)
All About Miriam (1966)
Pata Pata (1967)
Makeba! (1968)
Keep Me in Mind (1970)
A Promise (1974)
Miriam Makeba & Bongi (1975)
Country Girl (1978)
Comme une symphonie d'amour (1979)
Sangoma (1988)
Welela (1989)
Eyes on Tomorrow (1991)
Sing Me a Song (1994)
Homeland (2000)
Reflections (2004)

Compilations

Harry Belafonte and Miriam Makeba (1975)
The Queen of African Music (1987)
Africa (1991)

Singles

"The House of the Rising Sun" (1960)
"The Click Song" / "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" (1963)
"Malaika" / "Malcolm X" (1965)
"Pata Pata" (1967)
"Mas que Nada" (1967)
"I Shall Be Released" / "Iphi Ndilela (Show Me the Way)" (1969)
"Soweto Blues" (1988)
"Brand New Day"
"Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika"

People

Bongi Makeba (daughter)
Hugh Masekela (3rd husband)
Stokely Carmichael (4th husband)

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