''Homeland'' is a 2000 album by

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. It was released in 2000 on CD by world music label Putumayo. It includes a duet starring Makeba and Zenzi Lee in a renovated version of Makeba's trademark hit song "

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also contributed to this album both as a songwriter (for "Homeland" and "Lindelani") and as a singer ("Lindelani"). Both the title-track and the whole record are largely conceived as a celebration of the end of

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. The record was released a few days before the South African Freedom Day on 27 April 2000. The album was nominated for a

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category. Michael Levinsohn was the executive producer and financed the production of the record.

Track listing

# "Masakhane" – 4:42 # "Amaliya" – 3:12 # " Pata Pata 2000" – 3:49 # "'Cause We Live for Love" – 4:35 # "Liwa Wechi" – 3:30 # "Lindelani" – 3:14 # "Homeland" – 4:06 # "Umhome" – 5:09 # "Africa Is Where My Heart Lies" – 4:39 # "In Time" – 5:01

References

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