Miriam Makeba - Hapo Zamani

[lesleykoyi]

We miss such songs for sure,this is what we call the top layer of African heritage.

[namboozem]

Tears in my eyes everytime i listen to this song xx

[MrSinafungu]

mama kipaji chako MUNGU alikuzawadia hukuona taabu kutupa sisi kwa njia ya burudani . LALA KWA AMANI HUKO ULIKO

[MrSinafungu]

rest in piece mama africa. we remember u for ever.

[Rightbackif]

A great legend

[kalaranet]

Elle me manque trop!!!

[Yorker1981]

ich lieben den song über alles !!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ngenes2006]

Hi Eksentriek...this song was written during apartheid.

[mpikoz1]

booo

[OutreachT]

Nice to see Miriam Makeba and Hugh Masekela in concert again!

[kennylondon123]

the first time i saw this woman was bak in 93 or 94 wen "sarafina" the movie came out. I remember watching her played a mother ,working as a house maid for a white family .. my uncle went.." you know who that woman is, she is miriam makeba, one of s/africa's icon " a song came and she happened to be the 1 singing.. i loved her there and then!! and then i watched paul simon's concert in graceland..that seals everything for me.. her voice captivates and mesmerize the soul..

[sunevyelloh]

i really need this dvd if possible to buy one. can someone tell me how

[GhettoBee01]

If you want to do something in her memory, she had a girls home/an orphanage in south africa. can't remember what it is, I'll post the info. after i found out all the details.

[lilytanzy]

hap zamani sikuwa ivi is swahili;

[cottonpawn]

A great Afrikan left us.

Rest in peace Zenzi in your ancestor's kingdom.

[Dondanoma]

I wish to pay my tribute to mama Africa ... his songs will remain our lingering in our memories

[DisfiguredCowboy]

Always a powerful woman she will be.

My heart is more open, more tender due to her music.

Thank you forever, Mama Africa.

[mmakonde]

we love you mama africa u left a legacy that will go on forever.. R.I.P FOREVER

[bwanabidii]

MAMA AFRICA RIP.

[body2078]

I love you, Miriam Makeba. Beautiful soul.  Rest in peace.

[notikaone]

Rest in Peace. You have left us but will remain in our history.

[mayamba65]

"hapo zamani sikuwa hivi" means a long time ago I was not like this. However in this video she has mis-pronounced "shauri ya pombe" (because of alcohol) as "shauri wa pombe" - It's "shauri ya pombe" not "shauri wa pombe". Even in USA, it's the same - where black people live the system has put joints selling alcohol all over - why? A fool can answer that. Anyway this song is sweet just like most of Makeba's songs. Thank you for posting this sweetness.

[makuzah]

I really wonder what South Africans mean by Apatheid if racism is still a problem there. I've met a South African who actually said to me that Black South Africans honour Whites and dislike other Black Africans.

There also so many movies in which Black people betray their own race... It is such a shame! How can you attempt to demolish a mountain when you can't even lift one stone from it? There is still a LONG way to go... lol

[preciosanegra]

honour whites??? u kidding me..my only advice to you..is to go to S.AFRICA and see fro urself and then come and comment...

[versace27]

not all but there are a few and maybe makuzah is on about capeis cos a capei (cape town local) to those who dont know are of mixed race they prefere to be known as white rather than black yet in europe a mixed race person 90 percent of them would prefere to be known as black

[gabrysnl]

Halala mama Africa halala!!!!! Miriam we love you. Thank you for your farewell concert in Holland!!

[bcaribbeanw]

i never heard this song before now, thanks for posting it.

[namboozem]

song is straight to the point although the fight is now all undone by the now reigning southafrican thabo what a waste.

[nursejennifer25]

She's clearly the best!!

[bellemskey]

OMG... I love this track so much... Makeba is a legend... I love her music to bits... Africa is indeed great..

[MagicalgirlMiyu]

nice nice very cool miriam!!i like it .

[nakuru1976]

Hapo zamani ,sikuwa hivi shauri ya pombe means - long ago/back in the day i wasn't like this but for the Alcohol. I speak swahili and am Kenyan.Sikonges translation is right on the money.But the song had a hidden message coz during her time she could not sing against apartheid openly.

[CarolinaVzla]

Thanks a lot for clarifying this point, nakuru, this song always seemed to be very emblematic for me, but I didn't know why. I didn't know this new version of this song. GREAT, MAMA AFRICA. I LOVE YOU!!!!!!

[HeshimaJameni]

You are so right, Nakuru. Alcoholism is always a problem for the oppressed. A problem that rises out of despair and dehumanization. It is a chronic problem in the shantytowns, slums, bantustans, and the Indian reservatios in the United States!

[saklaus]

@HeshimaJameni as well as the aboriginal communities in australia. i'm s.african australian and there are too many similarities between the way in which the english treated the "noble savages" in each country :(

[SIKONGE]

For sure she sing Swahili and probably Xhosa. Hapo zamani means "Once upon a time, i was not looking like this. All caused by alcohol." I wonder if she used alcohol not to say apathaed.

[sifu50]

She said the Boers, not the booze - The Boers were the white Europeans who first came into S. Africa and began the practices that became known as Apartheid.

[SIKONGE]

Sifu, thanx. But as i wrote she start by singing in Kiswahili and the meaning i wrote in English. "Hapo zamani sikuwa hivi/Shauri ya pombe ..." Pombe in Swahili means ALCOHOL. U can check in ONLINE distionary. But apart from direct tranlation, the REAL MEANING is the one you say and is written. Take care.

[sifu50]

Thanks to you too for giving the translation

[ploit2]

Boer means farmer in Afrikaans (an earlier offshoot of the Dutch language). The word boorish interestingly derives from the same word. Boer, Boor, Buhr, Bauer- Farmer. They more than lived up to that adjective.

[ebonyeyes68]

This is awesome. LYLT

[sftkcid45]

go ahead miriam thats a swahili song u still sound great even though its not xhosa kudos

[Walba11]

Two weeks a go I was in South Africa.. Durban Soweto, Cape Town, Swasiland... I cried....... I cried..

[notwithstandinglife]

You're right Versace27 - it would appear that Miriam got it wrong - clearly the people to blame are white English folk. Why did you live in South Africa Versace27? Was it to benefit from the fact that as a white man life was easy for you? Not much competition from a black population denied education, health care and the freedom of choice you take for granted. Try and think a bit harder!

[versace27]

mail me please would love to express my views with you and also listen to yours i am not a racist in anyway so please mail me

[togocongo]

It's people like you who make me want to be racist. The reason I say that you English folks have been cruel and to this day you're still in denial. Well we tortured, killed and raped the people but it's not like they add anything to the country! I've got one thing to say there's a God that created us all and we're all going be judged according to our actions even our thoughts. Think what you want but you'll pay for it later.

[togocongo]

Blacks may be lazy but it's with, their blood, sweat and tears that England, France and especially America was built. My great, great grandmother became a slave because of people like you. Do you know how many people and nations became rich because of Africa? Yet, the disrespect and the disregard against a continent that was oppressed numerously continue. Now we can add apartheid to our beautiful history. Think before you talk, jerk!

[versace27]

you say it was all the white mans fault look back you fool africa had nothing no roads shops houses now look you even have airports could you see the great african colony develop whithout all the struggles i dont think so i personally think you will still be roaming with nothing but cattle and even that you would of just eaten without breading

[versace27]

for later on down the road look at zimbabwe say no more look they have killed and taken back there farms and no what was once one of africas richest countrys and now the poorest

[versace27]

there farms have nothing why let me tell you they eat all there food the drink too much and cant look at the long term i say take south africa back and dont beg england to help

[versace27]

yes apartaid was wrong but look again at your history england america and france etc did not agree with the apartaid that is why all them country disagreed with sa playing in any international tornements untill 1995 when u was free

[togocongo]

But what? Oh you mean as long as it satisfied their interests, do you have any idea how much these nations benefit from the pitiful state of Africa. And I know what I'm talking about my parents have seen it first hand. Like preventing tournaments is going to do much to change the injustice.

[togocongo]

Despite everything I do believe when Europeans came to Africa they had sometning to bring. Unfortunately, they became greedy. If look into history you will see that Europeans were welcomed yet they always took kindness for stupidity. If there's one thing I learned in my 17 years is that people are kind only when they expect something practically never out of goodwill!

[versace27]

if england didnt but there noses in u will still have apartaid i never have agreed with it and never will i agree with it

[togocongo]

Frankly, you haven't even scratched the surface of the issue. If England didn't have a need to rule over people aparatheid would've never happened. The help that you talk abou isn't about human rights, in the end it's always about money and power. Besides, I don't see why anyone should be treated that way in their own land. It's ridiculous that natives are tortured by foreigners. Does that make sense to you?

[versace27]

tell me about it we as english people are treated wrongly any forigner is liable to better treatment than the english in our own land

[HeshimaJameni]

Who doesn't know about the dreaded drunken English hooligans who terrorize the soccer world?

[versace27]

u are very inteligent i will say but there are always 2 sides to any story and to me that is where sa needs to start make mixed school policy no seperation

[versace27]

mail me and i will give u a number in sa to ring a tswanna man he will tell u how i took him in to my local pub and i stood by his side like a brother and no he doesnt drink

[togocongo]

Haha! Fine i do believe there are two sides to a story, it's only fair right? I enjoyed this long discussion and by the way. I'm really fond of English people and their culture and as far as I'm you're way better than the French but that's another discussion for another day!

[togocongo]

*Haha! Fine i do believe there are two sides to a story, it's only fair right? I enjoyed this long discussion and by the way I'm actually really fond of English people and their culture and as far as I'm concerned you're way better than the French but that's another discussion for another day!

[versace27]

lol id rather be stuck in soweto in the middle of 1000 totsies than be near a french man lol so tell me your view on tokoloshi please

[togocongo]

Who asked for England to help? Tell me, when England went to South Africa were they wanted there. No England put his nose where it didn't belong as always. People lived better lives then, than they do today. Besides, many inventions were thought because of these primitive people as you call them.

[HeshimaJameni]

Why don't you move back to England, leech.

[versace27]

how can i be a leach if i provide work u idiot

[HeshimaJameni]

You are a leech simply because if you consider the blacks in South Africa as good for nothing and yet they have been denied their humanity by the white race, then you should have stayed in England and give jobs to your fellow English people.

[togocongo]

Africa has issues that they need to address but in no way does that make what happened in the past okay. Youre talking about a couple hundreds maybe even less than that I'm talking about about a couple of millions of lives that are never coming back. What goes around always comes around.

[togocongo]

That's now what i said don't take my words and twist it around. I hate when people make stupid comparisons to excuse actions of the past. There's all this technology but people still have problems; suicide, depression, etc. Frankly, I could live without all of that and have people love each other instead. An iPod doesn't replace humanity.

[HeshimaJameni]

By your own admission you are still benefitting from cheap black labor. What if you worked for him instead... in England?

[versace27]

dont you think england is becoming like that we have polish ukraine and dozens more come her to live take our job and homes why cos they will work for nothing that is apart of life my workers earn more than the average and can earn more but only a minority of them will do it

[versace27]

im a white english man that lived in south africa for four years is it not true she blames the bore and apartheid for all the good for nothing ppl in south africa ie the black population that beg and steel? if so i have to disagree as life is what u make of it not what is made for you i had one african woker working for me earning 3000 rand a week and he still chose to live the way he lived even when given opitunity to better himself and his family

[togocongo]

The cruelty that your forefathers had towards my ancestors I doubt they're now bathing in a white heaven! Black or White we all return into the soil from whence we came. I know just as many if not more White nobodies that choose not to be productive with their lives. The centuries of slavery do you really think that it's been forgotten?

[togocongo]

Dou you really believe that God who created us will let a bunch of self serving, egotistical, power hungry jerks destroy what he's created? I am pissed off because I am tired of hearing the same thing being said. Nothing, absolutely nothing justifies the way that nations have been treated and the way they continue to be treated. Don't think because there was no one on Earth to make you pay that you will go unscathed.

[219790]

sure earning 3000 rand a week that is 415 dollars a week lol >>. in africa if i call u a leech im done

[cattyblue21]

she always makes me cry. Her voice is..... it gives me goose bumps.

[angolano89]

i'm proud to be african !!!!

[guracha200]

this is my blood soul and being.she is true mama africa.she is my mama

[mayurbaby]

ilove song very much viva makiba viva kiswaili vivi africa baby long life makiba

[HeshimaJameni]

Wow. It's refreshing to hear her sing in Kiswahili.

[bobbyt65]

I hope that music in heaven sounds this majestic.

[muchildo]

No doubt ,no doubt, Africas greatest music queen im proud of you mama Africa

[SIKONGE]

Hapo zamani sikuwa hivi mama, shauri ya zamani means Long time i was not like this, this is just caused by alcohol - Alcohol is Apathaed and Bores.

[kodonga]

One of my favourites of the Diva's music.Thanks a lot RaynerJM

[jhali]

Thanx, she's the queen!

[Av1on1cs]

It's amazing. The version she did when she was younger is great but not as good as this. More POWER to mama Africa!!

[ADF1962]

small world . .. she was once married to trumpet player Hugh Masekela and the guy playing in the video almost looks like him. I say that because the trumpet run the guys is playing sounds a lot like the one in Hugh Masekela's music video found here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v­=qGzQxItDevk&feature=PlayList&­p=0255FA6AB9FA95E4&index=14

[RaynerJM]

The guy playing the trumpet is definitively Hugh Masekela. He also features prominently in the documentary about Miriam Makeba this clip was taken from.

[ADF1962]

Thanks! Hope to see that documentary one of these days.

[blanche822]

Did Miriam Makeba reunite with Hugh Masekela at some point? This is one of many collaborations I've seen of them seemingly after they split up. Was Stokely Carmichael still around at this point?

[aripup]

yaa people used to ask her whether that was her young brother! That often pissed him off so they divorced.

[SIKONGE]

Is it true that Masekela is Russia graduate? What he studied over there? He plays well and you will know who is playing is South africa.

[thewind01]

great video from a documentary ....and one of the best versions of hapo zamani

[thewind01]

Mama Africa...one of her very good songs.....I love it