and today we have the celebration of MIRIAM MAKEBA's birthday....
let me take a short excerpt from the wiki entry... in relation to why 'goodwill ambassadors' are so important....in relation to peace talks....and submit a possible reason as to why george clooney decided that it was massively important to do 'something similar' in the SUDAN:
On 16 October 1999, Miriam Makeba was nominated Goodwill Ambassador of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO).[31] In January 2000, her album, Homeland, produced by Cedric Samson and Michael Levinsohn for the New York City based record label Putumayo World Music,[32] was nominated for a Grammy Award in the Best World Music Album category.[33] She worked closely with Graça Machel-Mandela, who at the time was the South African first lady, for children suffering from HIV/AIDS, child soldiers, and the physically handicapped.[2]
In 2001, she was awarded the Otto Hahn Peace Medal in Gold by the United Nations Association of Germany (DGVN) in Berlin, "for outstanding services to peace and international understanding".[12] She shared the Polar Music Prize with Sofia Gubaidulina.[12] The prize is regarded as Sweden's foremost musical honour.[citation needed] They received their Prize from Carl XVI Gustaf King of Sweden during a nationally-televised ceremony at Berwaldhallen, Stockholm, on 27 May 2002.[34] She also took part in the 2002 documentary Amandla!: A Revolution in Four-Part Harmony, where she and others recalled the struggles of black South Africans against the injustices of apartheid through the use of music. In 2004, Makeba was voted 38th in the Top 100 Great South Africans. Makeba started a worldwide farewell tour in 2005, holding concerts in all of those countries that she had visited during her working life.[18]
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