Afrikan Boy
September 6, 2019 3:59 AM Subscribe
Afrikan Boy, the London-based afro-grime artist of "One Day I Went To Lidl" fame and one-time M.I.A. protégé, writes songs centered on themes of immigration, identity, and the search for belonging, sometimes with wryly hilarious send-ups like "Ancestry", sometimes with a more serious bent such as with "Border Business", which was shot at the migrant camp near Calais in 2015 (brief documentary).
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Ha, the Ancestry video reminds me of Peter Cho's essay about wrong results from 23AndMe.
posted by Nelson at 8:27 AM on September 6, 2019
I spat into a tube containing a stabilizing solution, packed up the kit, and dropped it into the mail to return to 23andMe. A few weeks later, I would get a report detailing where my ancestors come from. I was not expecting any surprises, but merely a confirmation of what my parents have always told me: I am wholly Korean.(Spoiler: that's not what the results said.)
posted by Nelson at 8:27 AM on September 6, 2019
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