![]() ![]() I think children can more easily understand that these people have families also, and friends they love and have to leave in difficult circumstances, and that we have more in common with them than we believe we do as adults.” “When we’re grown, it’s easy to think of foreigners, immigrants and refugees as people who are different, separate, from the rest of us. “When you’re young is when you start to familiarize yourself with certain kinds of empathies that help you understand history in the right context,” K’naan, 34, said in a phone interview Friday. K’naan could have written a memoir for adult readers, an epic refugee story of flight, struggle and discovery that traces every thrilling and agonizing step the young Somalia-born, Canada-nurtured rapper/hip hop artist, songwriter and activist has made on his way from poverty and fear in his war-torn native land to the highest strata of international pop music stardom outlined in his multi-award-winning hit song, “Wavin’ Flag.”īut he very deliberately chose to aim his first book at children, he told the Star on the eve of the publication Tuesday of When I Get Older: The Story Behind “Wavin’ Flag,” a 32-page picture book written by K’naan and illustrated by prominent New York artist Rudy Gutierrez.
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