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  • Kendrick Lamar, Black Mecca and Hip-Hop Pan-Africanism

    Kendrick Lamar, Black Mecca and Hip-Hop Pan-Africanism

    Kendrick Lamar recently visited Ghana, promoting his new album and reportedly shooting a documentary. State officials celebrated the visit in the context of Beyond the Return, Ghana’s tourism and repatriation campaign. As Mr. Duckworth swaps his wrecked Audi for the Accra trotro, conscious hip hop’s commitment to Pan-Africanism is deep as ever.

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