This lesson contains 12 slides, with text slides and 3 videos.
Lesson duration is: 40 min
Items in this lesson
H4G - Literature
Music and Lyrics
Slide 1 - Slide
Yesterday:
Neil Diamond - America
M.I.A. - Paper Planes
Today:
K'Naan - Coming to America
Videos:
Shakira & J Lo Super Bowl
This is America - Childish Gambino
Slide 2 - Slide
Slide 3 - Slide
Keinan Abdi Warsame, better known by his stage name K'naan, is a Somali-Canadian musician. He rose to prominence with the success of his single "Wavin' Flag", which was chosen as Coca-Cola's promotional anthem for the 2010 FIFA World Cup.
K'naan spent his childhood in Mogadishu, in a neighborhood nicknamed "the river of blood". His father, Abdi, left earlier when he was still a boy to work as a taxi driver in New York City.
This changed following the start of the civil war, when at the age of 12, three of his friends were shot by an older adolescent gunman. K'naan also narrowly escaped death one day at his school, when he mistook a grenade that he found in the dirt for a potato and threw it away just before it detonated. These incidents and the general escalation in violence prompted his mother to seek a visa so that the family could join his father in New York.
Lesson duration is: 40 min
