One of South Africa’s veteran musical heroines, popular long before world music got its own section of music stores, Miriam Makeba comes home with a warming passion on Homeland (Putumayo 164; 42:20).

Within minutes of arriving in the United States for the first time, on November 28, 1959, 27-year-old Zenzile “Miriam” Makeba was whisked to the Manhattan office of the famous Jamaican-American singer ...

She passed on doing what she was always passionate about and loved best: Singing on stage. Feted overseas and shunned in her homeland for close to three decades, the curtains fell early this week, on ...

The musical is Somi Kakoma’s thank-you note, written across generations, to the South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba. By Alexis Soloski The documentary presents a highlight reel of crucial ...