Wikipedia:Today's featured article/requests/Miriam Makeba

Miriam Makeba

 * This is the archived discussion of the TFAR nomination for the article below. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/requests). Please do not modify this page. 

The result was: scheduled for Today's featured article/March 4, 2018 by Wehwalt (talk) 12:36, 11 February 2018 (UTC)



Miriam Makeba (4 March 1932 – 9 November 2008), also known as Mama Africa, was a South African singer, actor, United Nations goodwill ambassador, and civil rights activist. Associated with musical genres including Afropop, jazz, and world music, she was an advocate against apartheid and white-minority government in South Africa. Born in Johannesburg to Swazi and Xhosa parents, she began singing professionally in the 1950s. In 1959, Makeba had a brief role in the anti-apartheid film Come Back, Africa, which brought her international attention. Makeba moved to the United States, where her career flourished, and she released several albums and songs, her most popular being "Pata Pata" (1967). She and Harry Belafonte received a Grammy Award for their 1966 album An Evening with Belafonte/Makeba. Her 1968 marriage to Stokely Carmichael led to her facing hostility in the US. She moved to Guinea, and began to write and perform music more explicitly critical of apartheid. Makeba was among the first African musicians to receive worldwide recognition, and popularized World Music and Afropop. Upon her death, Nelson Mandela said that "her music inspired a powerful sense of hope in all of us."
 * Most recent similar article(s): no African woman recently
 * Main editors: Vanamonde, Midnightblueowl
 * Promoted: October 2017
 * Reasons for nomination: her birthday, also women's month
 * Support as nominator. Gerda Arendt (talk) 20:45, 19 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support, as major contributor, for certain. Thanks for nominating this, : it's been on my to-do-list but I never got around to it. I'll have a look over the blurb later. I'm assuming this is a request for 4th March? Vanamonde (talk) 14:52, 20 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support as long-time article editor. Graham 87 08:21, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support Looks good to me. Freikorp (talk) 10:11, 21 January 2018 (UTC)
 * Support I don't know if I am allowed to give my opinion here, but the subject is in dire need of representation.Iry-Hor (talk) 07:15, 24 January 2018 (UTC)