@Okayafrica interview with Somalian-Canadian troubadour MC @Knaan [via @dynamicafrica]:

@Okayafrica sat down with Somalia&rsquo;s troubadour @Knaan to speak about transnational identities, the after-effects of having the most popular song in the world, and his new More Beautiful Than Silence EP.

My music is mostly about identity and, you know, the position that a person holds in the universal context. 
I&rsquo;ve always written about the question of why am I here? And, who am I? Thats been the theme of most great artists that I follow. It&rsquo;s just been particularly more complex for me, having lived half of my live in Africa in Somalia and the other half in North America &mdash;Canada and the US. 
But, I think that&rsquo;s the kind of question we&rsquo;re figuring out right now. We&rsquo;re in a particularly engaged world, we&rsquo;re in a particularly diverse world, we&rsquo;re in an economic -driven world. That&rsquo;s beginning to determine identity also. Whereas in the past it was the human being&rsquo;s ancestral and spiritual history which determined identity, now its becoming economics. 
I&rsquo;m just a part of that journey and those are the kind of questions that I address in my music and those are the kind of feelings that I think my songs bring up.  You know, songs like &ldquo;Coming To America&rdquo;.

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