Akua Naru a Cologne (Germany) based American artist of Ghanaian origin is set to tour Harare this Wednesday, September 14, 2016. She will perform at the Zimbabwe German Society at a free concert as part of her Africa Tour.

Known for her ability to captivate her audience with an imaginative blend of hot, vibrant instrumental hip-hop, blues, jazz, traditional soul and the sounds of West Africa, she is poised to charm the local audiences with her alchemy whose magic ingredient is the soft and sensual lyrical flow.

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She has set her life to the rhythm of numerous journeys, which in turn have influenced her music.Two years after her first album, “The Journey Aflame”, she has released “Thought’s Attic”. This magician of words, an unyielding tranquil force, will certainly move you with her smoldering, intimate show.

Hailing from New Haven, Connecticut (USA), Akua Naru’s journey to global poet began in an early upbringing in the Pentecostal church before discovering a power to describe her experiences with unmatched eloquence in hip hop.

Growing up in a racially divided city, battling gentrification, rising unemployment and violent crime initiated Akua on a path of critical inquiry regarding the urban social condition, and the vulnerability of black women, which, along with an interest in history and a commitment to activism, would shape her music and her writings.

Honing her writing as a teenager, combined with an expanding political education, Naru began participating in youth programs that raised awareness around pressing community issues. Her powerful poetic lyricism, talent for story telling, and ability to integrate historical narratives into her music have drawn the attention of scholars and activists around the globe.

Naru concedes that she writes “to fulfill the void she needs filled since access to female voice has been so limited in hip hop”.

Due to a legacy of slavery and silence in which being black and female has meant exploitation, marginalization, and damaging stereotyping lasting right up to today, Naru defiantly declares her intention to “provide a body of knowledge” and “honor her mother’s mothers’ voices” by centralizing black women’s experiences in her work–an approach she credits to the example of Pulitzer and Nobel prize winning author Toni Morrison.

As part of her continental tour organized by German’s international cultural institution Goethe Institut, Akua Naru will perform in Kenya, Mozambique, Rwanda, Uganda and Zimbabwe.