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Nneka, Ann Arbor, 2012

Nneka

Sounds from Nigeria, via Hamburg

by James M. Manheim

posted 10/22/2012

Nneka Egbuna was born in 1980 in Nigeria's oil country to a Nigerian father and a German mother. She studied anthropology in Hamburg, and there met the Kabul-born producer DJ Farhot, with whom she has continued to work. Farhot's online biography says that in "a rather dull backyard of the Hanseatic city south of the Elbe ... socialisation with Hip Hop [took]

 
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