I don't think she tried to kill herself.
I think thats just a cover story for some possibly serious health conditions that have resulted from her whitening escapade.
And I thought she left her husband. Not the other way around.
The San were the original inhabitants of South Africa. They were Yellow-skinned, not black. Now it is impossible to find pure-blooded San, as most of them have intermixed with the whites (Cape Coloured) or with the Blacks.
Makeba was one proud lady, good example of blackness...
as I said I have read where once black women came to know white women they have had an emotional problem with their hair. by now they all must know the biological, evolutionary imperitves as they relate to human hair. that doh seem to make a difference to how deh feel about themselves.
when I was young I wanted hair like Tony Curtis. from before my first macro Afro all ah dat disappear, never to return.
I have also met africans in canada...lots of them for whom being white was no thing. but these same africans had no real love for west indians and no commitment to black issues as far as i could tell.. they had no experience like we in the west grew up in. race was not defined for them as it had been for us.
but there were generations of africans who fought european colonialism and won. from what I have seen for a long time now there was a whole lot to those struggles I dont understand..the full ideological nature of them.
but like Makeba there must have been 'real' africans, lots of them who saw life as it is and was