{"id":7210,"date":"2023-06-20T17:19:22","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/?p=7210"},"modified":"2026-04-29T14:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T18:35:11","slug":"wrd-knaan-refugee-music-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/2023\/wrd-knaan-refugee-music-video\/","title":{"rendered":"World Refugee Day: New Music Video from Somali Musician K&#8217;NAAN"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        World Refugee Day: New Music Video from Somali Musician K&#8217;NAAN\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<p>Alongside&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RefugeeHub\/status\/1671190885525061632\">The Refugee Hub<\/a>, LERRN is pleased to announce that Award-winning Somali musician&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KNAAN\">K\u2019naan<\/a>\u2018s new music video \u201cRefugee\u201d is out on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldRefugeeDay?src=hashtag_click\">World Refugee Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"not-prose cu-quote cu-component-spacing\">\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>\u201cGrowing up, every time someone called me a refugee, I recoiled. I wanted to flip the meaning of the word, and make it something that people will wear proudly.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>K\u2019naan.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>His first full album in 10 years will follow this summer. The music video for \u201cRefugee\u201d can be found on YouTube:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"K&#039;NAAN - Refugee\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9P-xy3ZpA90?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alongside&nbsp;The Refugee Hub, LERRN is pleased to announce that Award-winning Somali musician&nbsp;K\u2019naan\u2018s new music video \u201cRefugee\u201d is out on&nbsp;World Refugee Day. \u201cGrowing up, every time someone called me a refugee, I recoiled. I wanted to flip the meaning of the word, and make it something that people will wear proudly.\u201d K\u2019naan. His first full album [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[558],"class_list":["post-7210","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-miscellaneous"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7210"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13055,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7210\/revisions\/13055"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/lerrn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}