Miriam Makeba

This exclusive profile of singer Miriam Makeba, whose music and story are a powerful and moving testimony to South Africa's struggle for freedom, was filmed on location in her homeland. Miriam and her band are featured in specially-recorded performances and she talks in interview about her early life in South Africa and the time she spent in exile in America, where she was involved with the civil rights movement. Archive newsreel and feature film footage are vivid reminders of her country's troubled past.