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Camp Dori Inc. is a 501c3 Nonprofit Educational Organization. https://www.campdori.com/

Racially Nondiscriminatory Policy - Camp Dori does not and shall not discriminate based on race, color, religion (creed), gender, gender expression, age, national origin (ancestry), disability, marital status, sexual orientation, or military status, in any of its activities or operations. If you DO NOT have a

Follow @TheLimitlessLadies for more real stories of women who used their voice to change the world. Miriam Makeba spent the first six months of her life in prison. Her mother had been arrested when Miriam was just 18 days old. She grew up in a segregated South African township. Her father died when she was six. Music became the one thing no one could take from her. By the 1950s, she was performing across Southern Africa. By 1959, she was on stage in Venice and New York .. discovered at 27. Then her government cancelled her passport. She tried to fly home for her mother’s funeral in 1960. They turned her away. She wouldn’t set foot in South Africa for another 31 years. In 1963, she testified against apartheid at the United Nations. South Africa responded by revoking her citizenship and banning every record she had made. She won a Grammy in 1965. She sang for President Kennedy. She performed at Carnegie Hall alongside Nina Simone. Then in 1968, her marriage to civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael cost her the American platform she had built. The FBI surveilled her. Concerts were cancelled overnight. She rebuilt again .. this time as Guinea’s official UN delegate, performing at independence ceremonies across a free Africa. In 1987, Paul Simon brought her back to global stages. In 1990, Nelson Mandela personally invited her home. She died on stage in Italy in 2008 .. mid-performance, doing exactly what she was born to do. They called her Mama Africa. She earned every word of it. Miriam had no country. No passport. No platform they couldn’t take away. But she walked into the United Nations and told the truth anyway .. not because it was safe. Because it was necessary. You don’t need permission to use your voice. You don’t need the perfect platform or someone else’s approval. The women who changed history started exactly where they were. So do you. Miriam’s power wasn’t just her talent. It was knowing who she was when the world tried to tell her she was nothing. Share this with someone who needs to know about Miriam. 05/28/2026

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Follow @TheLimitlessLadies for more real stories of women who used their voice to change the world. Miriam Makeba spent the first six months of her life in prison. Her mother had been arrested when Miriam was just 18 days old. She grew up in a segregated South African township. Her father died when she was six. Music became the one thing no one could take from her. By the 1950s, she was performing across Southern Africa. By 1959, she was on stage in Venice and New York .. discovered at 27. Then her government cancelled her passport. She tried to fly home for her mother’s funeral in 1960. They turned her away. She wouldn’t set foot in South Africa for another 31 years. In 1963, she testified against apartheid at the United Nations. South Africa responded by revoking her citizenship and banning every record she had made. She won a Grammy in 1965. She sang for President Kennedy. She performed at Carnegie Hall alongside Nina Simone. Then in 1968, her marriage to civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael cost her the American platform she had built. The FBI surveilled her. Concerts were cancelled overnight. She rebuilt again .. this time as Guinea’s official UN delegate, performing at independence ceremonies across a free Africa. In 1987, Paul Simon brought her back to global stages. In 1990, Nelson Mandela personally invited her home. She died on stage in Italy in 2008 .. mid-performance, doing exactly what she was born to do. They called her Mama Africa. She earned every word of it. Miriam had no country. No passport. No platform they couldn’t take away. But she walked into the United Nations and told the truth anyway .. not because it was safe. Because it was necessary. You don’t need permission to use your voice. You don’t need the perfect platform or someone else’s approval. The women who changed history started exactly where they were. So do you. Miriam’s power wasn’t just her talent. It was knowing who she was when the world tried to tell her she was nothing. Share this with someone who needs to know about Miriam.

05/22/2026

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http://www.campdori.com/

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Decatur, GA

Opening Hours

Monday 2pm - 6:30pm
Tuesday 12am - 5pm
Wednesday 2pm - 6:30pm
Thursday 12pm - 5pm
Friday 2pm - 5pm