155:(pläne-records), in 1980. Some of her songs could be heard years later in her mother's repertoire. Two of them, "Malcolm X" (1965, 1972) and "Lumumba" (1970), extol assassinated black leaders. Her mother commissioned a song from Makeba for a celebration of Mozambique's independence in 1975; she wrote "Aluta Continua" (The Struggle Continues) with collaborator Bill Salter.
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