Live Au Palais Du Peuple De Conakry (1974)

If ever there was a Grande Dame of World music, it would have to be Miriam Makeba. Beyond the long career, crossover success, and international appeal is the dignified image, a symbol and a person fighting for women?s rights, human rights, and racial equality. Having fled South Africa for freedom in America, she was soon forced to leave America as that same freedom was denied her.Live Au Palais Du Peuple De Conakry Released in 1974 a moving Live Record by Miriam Makeba playing in the People?s Palace of Conakry. A sense of overturning Colonialism fuels this performance culminating in Malcolm X a song written by her daughter Bongi. There is a traceable presence of pan-african optimism and enthusiasm in the air and Makeba lived and sang long enough to see the Apartheid regime defeated. (allmusic.com)|