Mama Africa!: How Miriam Makeba Spread Hope with Her Song

by Kathryn Erskine

Book Overview

An inspiring picture-book biography of iconic singer and activist Miriam Makeba by National Book Award winner Kathryn Erskine.

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;...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374303010
• ISBN13: 9780374303013
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (Byr)
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.98 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.1" x 11.3"
• Age Range: 6 to 10 years
• Grade Range: Grades 1 to 5