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Before Toronto rapper K’naan penned the irrepressible ear worm “Wavin’ Flag” (which went on to be the FIFA 2010 theme song), and even before he became known as K’naan, he was Keinan Warsame, a Somalian resident who fled to the U.S. (and soon after, moved to Canada) just prior to the Somali Civil War in 1991. Now he plans to turn his story of escape, immigration and music into, yes, a children’s book, complete with illustrations by Rudy Gutierrez—not exactly the usual fodder for a kid’s nighttime story, sure, but one that he hopes will speak to those facing similar circumstances. [CBC]
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The day after George W. Bush was re-elected president, the American novelist Richard Ford got in his car and drove across the border to Saskatchewan from Montana. He did not come in search of political asylum—something many American liberal intellectuals loudly and half-jokingly yearned for that day—but for a flu shot, which his U.S. health care provider had deemed him “not old enough or sick enough to merit.”
One night, in Delhi, when I was 14, I heard a horrifying scream and leaped from my bed. On the street below, I saw our neighbour, a young woman named Kiran, in a glittering red bridal sari engulfed in flames. Head thrown back, wrists bound with thick rope, she reached her arms beseechingly to the stars and then collapsed.
1| My ride
2| My hockey cards
4| My water guide
