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South Africa: Translation of Miriam Makeba's Hapo Zamani

Written byNdesanjo Macha
Posted 29 July 2010 11:44 GMT

“Thanks to our Facebook page, African music fans from South African and Kenya were able to get the story behind this late Miriam Makeba song,” writes Chale of African music blog, Museke. The song is in Swahili and Xhosa.

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