Musician K’Naan On Returning to Somalia After Twenty Years

The Takeaway

In September, musician and poet K’Naan wrote an op-ed about returning to his native Somalia for The  New York Times. He had left the country, which is in the grip of a devastating famine and violent civil war, twenty years earlier, fleeing with other members of his family for safety in Canada. He came on the show to discuss this in September.   

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