Thursday, December 27th, 2012
No, Somali-Canadian rapper/crooner K’Naan’s “God, Country or the Girl” did not make my list of best albums of 2012. And his post-facto denouncement of its contents in an op-ed in The New York Times (!) has nothing to do with it. With the exception of a cut with Nas (“Nothing to Lose“), K’Naan’s latest is, however,
Friday, November 23rd, 2012
We should start numbering these bonus music breaks. First up, above, from Kenya: the Large Gang, who claim to be “a lifestyle,” or at least more than a music group. Also from Nairobi (H/T “urban soul” blog...
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Academic Blogger
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Dutch writer to Italian newspaper: ...
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Us and Them: Rape and Racism in Ind...
12 Dec 2012 at 11:00 am
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