“I wished to write down a track that felt like a house for these of us made homeless by battle,” Mr. Warsame wrote on social media when launching the only, now on YouTube. The lyrics mirror his childhood expertise escaping struggle in Somalia and people of others whose “each suitcase held their house”.
Greater than 110 million individuals are actually forcibly displaced around the globe, together with over 670,000 Somalis, in keeping with the UN Refugee Company, UNHCR.
Having carried out in almost 100 international locations, made Rolling Stone journal’s 200 Biggest Hip Hop Albums of All Time, and not too long ago accomplished a fellowship at Harvard’s Hutchins Heart for African and African American Analysis, Mr. Warsame is now growing a musical on the Public Theater in New York.
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Award-winning artist Ok’naan releases a brand new track honouring refugees.
