Stephanie Shonekan is a professor of Black Studies and Ethnomusicology at University of Missouri. Her book Soul, Country, and the USA: Race Identity in American Music Culture will be published by Palgrave Macmillan this year.
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Why Did Our Media Mourn Charlie Hebdo But Ignore 2,000 Deaths in Nigeria? Ask Fela Kuti.
The Afrobeat legend has much to teach Western media about dealing with such tragedies.
Stephanie Shonekan
Culture
Living Color in Naperville
What did living in a white conservative suburb teach a progressive African woman about race in America?
Stephanie Shonekan