"And why is our music called world music? I think people are being polite. What they want to say is that it's third world music. Like they use to call us under developed countries, now it has changed to developing countries, it's much more polite."

(Miriam Makeba, nota anche con lo pseudonimo di Mama Africa, cantante; Johannesburg, 4 marzo 1932 – Castel Volturno, 9 novembre 2008)