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          Akua Naru is very talented female rapper currently living in Cologne, Germany....

          Akua Naru

          American rapper

          Akua Naru

          with The Digflo Band in Vienna in 2015

          NationalityAmerican
          Other namesAkua Olatunji
          Occupation(s)hip hop MC, rapper, poet, professor
          EmployerUC Santa Cruz
          Websitehttps://www.akua-naru.com/

          Akua Naru (also known as Akua Olatunji),[1] is a rapper from Connecticut, United States.

          Her hip-hop music incorporates styles including soul and jazz.

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        2. The first HipHop-track on a CD I had was "X gonna give it to ya" from DMX on a HitMix when I was like 4 years old, and I loved it so much.
        3. Akua Naru is very talented female rapper currently living in Cologne, Germany.
        4. Known for her electrifying live shows, Naru has performed in more than fifty countries across five continents with her 6-piece band and collaborated with the.
        5. One of the festival's international headliners will be German-based American rapper and poet Akua Naru.

          6. In 2018 she began archiving the achievements of women in hip-hop at Harvard University as a Nasir Jones Hip-hop Fellow at the Hip-hop Archive Research Institute.[2] Naru has been particularly successful in Europe, where she lived from 2008 until joining the music faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024.

          Life

          Naru was born and raised in Connecticut in a family that went to church and played gospel music. At the age of nine, Naru's uncle introduced her to hip hop music. It was Akua's grandmother who took her to church, wher