Miriam Makeba in Cameroon: A Witness to the Queen of African Music
The writer recalls two encounters with Miriam Makeba during her visits to Cameroon in the 1970s—first at a Red Cross ball in 1974, and later in an exclusive interview at Radio Cameroon in Yaounde. The piece preserves her address to journalism students, in which she called on African communicators to see their work as a weapon of cultural liberation and political consciousness.
Staff · 21 August 2019
