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String of awards and controversies

By ERICK WAMANJI

In her website, Miriam Makeba is resplendent in a leopard skin dress with huge spots of yellow, pink, black and blue. She is on stage holding a microphone, the only visible object in the dark hall. Revellers are swallowed in this darkness, but there are 14 disco lights that give the setting some sense of mystic.

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