Author(s): Kathryn Erskine,Charly Palmer
Format: Hardback
No. of Pages: 48
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
Language: English
Date Published: 2017-10-16
Dimensions: 198 x 279 x 12.7mm
Publication City/Country: New York, United States
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Illustrations: Full colour illustrations

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 similar to 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.