'Miriam Makeba' is featured as a movie character in the following productions:

Makeba, Miriam Filmography

• Play in Full Screen Mama Africa

  2011, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Sing Your Song

  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Mama Africa

  2011, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Help

  2009, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Soul Power

  2008, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Livicated

  2005, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Amandla! A Revolution in Four Part Harmony

  2002, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Sacred Sounds

  2000, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen When We Were Kings

  1996, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen African Footsteps

  1995, role: actress , character name: Herself - Interviewee
• Play in Full Screen Children of Africa

  1993, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Sarafina!

  1992, role: actress , character name: Angelina
• Play in Full Screen Have You Seen Drum Recently?

  1989, role: actress
• Play in Full Screen Nelson Mandela 70th Birthday Tribute

  1988, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Voices of Sarafina!

  1988, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Paul Simon, Graceland: The African Concert

  1987, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Amok

  1983, role: actress , character name: Joséphine Sempala
• Play in Full Screen Amok

  1983, role: composer
• Play in Full Screen Miriam Makeba: We Will Win

  1969, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Festival panafricain d'Alger

  1969, role: actress , character name: Herself
• Play in Full Screen Come Back, Africa

  1959, role: actress , character name: Miriam

Famous quotes by Miriam Makeba:

"I sang in Los Angeles recently and a band that had managed to get out of New Orleans played there. They asked me for one or to songs for a CD being recorded. My group and I said yes, we were ready to contribute in that way, the only way we have."

"Mama Africa."

"I was so scared. Such a big orchestra"

"I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me."

"Ours was a marriage, a love affair -- the land would nurture us, and we would honor the land. But the land was too rich and too good. The powerful and greedy invaders saw this at once."

"Age is…wisdom, if one has lived one's life properly."

"People in the United States still have a 'Tarzan' movie view of Africa. That's because in the movies all you see are jungles and animals . . . We [too] watch television and listen to the radio and go to dances and fall in love."

"I look at a stream and I see myself: a native South African, flowing irresistibly over hard obstacles until they become smooth and, one day, disappear -- flowing from an origin that has been forgotten toward an end that will never be."

"I look at an ant and l see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit."

"Age is getting to know all the ways the world turns, so that if you cannot turn the world the way you want, you can at least, get out of the way so you won't get run over"

"There are a lot of homes for boys, but very few for girls, that is why I chose to do for girls."

"It's a really unfair world because life is, where I am; all day long we listen to American music. So I don't see why the radios in the U.S. cannot even put aside one hour a day just to play music that is not American."

"You are damned and praised, or encouraged or discouraged by those who listen to you, and those who come to applaud you. And to me, those people are very important."

"In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home."

"Well there is a lot of work here for younger and older musicians now. Our Ministry of Culture has now really embarked on changing things for artists, and it is getting much better. We just have to organize ourselves as artists, and then things will be better."

"I titled the album Reflections because I am reflecting on my music career."

"For instance, we're always fighting amongst each other. Who gives us the arms? And then we become indebted to wherever we are buying them from - with what? The very resources we need to keep there."

"And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep these natural resources."

"It is very much the theme of our President, President Thabo Mbeki, whose passion is for Africa to work together, and for Africans to get up and do things for us. We are trying as women to do things for ourselves."

"Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know where I come from how we lived in South Africa. I just told the world the truth. And if my truth then becomes political, I can't do anything about that."

Miriam Makeba

Born: 1932-03-04

Died: 2008-11-10