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Introduction to Tpaalha
This week we're introducing the opossum language Tpaalha created during the second season of LangTime Studio. Our strangest (and, in some ways, most complicated) language by far, Tpaalha remains a fan favorite (and a thorn in our side whenever we need to translate anything into it).
LangTime Studio is back with the second episode of our seventh season today at 2:00 p.m. Pacific! Come check it out to see where we go with our fox language.
An arrest warrant was issued late last week for 46-year-old Keinan Abdi Warsame, otherwise known as K'naan.
Canadian rapper K’naan (given name Keinan Abdi Warsame), was charged with sexual assault in Quebec on Thursday in connection with an alleged incident from 2010 in the province’s capital city. The province’s Crown prosecutor office confirmed an arrest warrant was issued late last week for 47-year-old Warsame. The singer, who delivered the 2009 smash-hit song Wavin’ Flag, is alleged to have sexually assaulted someone between July 16 and 17, 2010, in Quebec City. At the time, Warsame was in the province to perform at Festival d’été de Québec.
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Bang Bang - K’NAAN feat. Adam Levine
Official music video for Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) by K'naan featuring Residente, Riz MC & Snow Tha Product
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I was so excited about the Immigrants MV I almost missed Daveed’s gem of an appearance.
Lin's playlist gift was exactly what I needed to recharge today. And I totally didn't cry to K'NAAN singing "Take A Minute" on the way to work today.
Wavin' Flag - From Somalia to the World, and What It Means to Endure
Wavin' Flag' by K'NAAN is one of the most understated, yet potent songs in the diaspora repertoire. As a Somali-born raised in Canada after being displaced by civil war, K'NAAN's music is loaded with the burdens of being forced to leave home. The song started off as a song about survival, about not disappearing, not surrendering, not dying when the world seems to have given up on you. Later, when it became the FIFA World Cup theme song for 2010, the song was transformed into a global celebration but the original spirit, which was a tale of real refugee experience, remained. This is an excellent example of “music as a means of rupturing and reconstructing identities in migration”, in the words of Baily and Collyer (2006).
K'NAAN's path from Mogadishu to the world stage isn't one of leaving Africa behind. It's a story that carries Africa forward, in his voice, in his words, and that he wouldn't let suffering be the only story he has.
In this song the two truths of a diasporic life are captured: the pain of uprooting, as well as the remarkable strength that emerges from it. Loss is not the only part of the African diaspora. It is marked by creativity, survival and the sense of belonging that is shaped, patiently and assertively, wherever African people are in the world. Wavin' Flag waves for all of it.
Listen: K'NAAN — Wavin' Flag:
Citation: Baily, J., & Collyer, M. (2006). Introduction: Music and migration. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, 32(2), 167–182.
