Africa

Davey D Interviews Somali-Born Rapper Knaan, part 1: The Truth About Somalia's So-Called Pirates

What the Western news media call "pirates" off the Somali coast, locals there call the Coast Guard, explains Somali-born rapper Knaan.

Somalia has been without a central government for two decades, thanks to a prolonged US, European and Ethiopian intervention in that country's affairs.  The US will not permit establishment of a government that does not grant rights to the country's oil and resources to the West, and people won't stand for it.  While there is no central government, and no law enforcement off Somalia's coast, Knaan says, Western fleets have cleaned out Somalia's fisheries and dumped millions of tons of toxic and radioactive wastes in its waters.  Who are the real pirates here?

Davey D Interviews Somali-Born Rapper Knaan, part 2

In the second part of this Davey D interview, Knaan shows what he really has, and discusses the intersections of music, media and culture.

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