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The Long Wave: Elmiene’s songs of hope in the shadow of war
The British singer-songwriter explores the loss of home and homeland as we share stories of Sudan. Plus, Drake bounces back after Kendrick diss
| Arsenal have been accused of snubbing the Democratic Republic of the Congo by not meeting its foreign minister to discuss the English football club’s “bloodstained” Visit Rwanda sponsorship deal. In Golden, a track that was played at the late Virgil Abloh’s final Louis Vuitton show, one verse exemplifies the risks of nostalgia for a homeland and not leaning into reinventing oneself: As a journalist, it has been hard to draw proportional global attention to the conflict, and I think the way that people process Sudan is compromised by the fact that our art, culture, peacetime joy and character have not been foregrounded.
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