k'naan in Sweden talking about Africa

[childofYah4evaeva]

maybe u should add historian, anthropologist to your list of tags.love that he took his negative experiences with racism and looked at it from a deeper pt of view. lovin this info!! thanks for the upload!

[malaleche240]

Nordics have been robbing people since the vikings

[SwedishDictatorship]

@Radanle People from Africa would not have to leave their country if Swedes like Wallenberg. Lundin and Carl Bildt did not kill and rob Africa. You say "many African immigrants in Sweden". First of all 50000 is NOT many and they left Africa because of the Swedish politics and Swedish criminals robbing and destroying Africa.

[brian7893]

@SwedishDictatorship to blame the problems in africa on sweden is just ignorant. the problems on that continent are much more complicated than multinational corporations going around killing people. the number of russian made weapons in africa far outnumbers the number of swedish weapons, and its africans who r pulling the triggers, not swedes.

africa is war-torn. war causes poverty.everyone needs to stop fighting for factions and tribes and start working for peace and educating each other

[Daaviids191]

I like Sweden

[laDecemberPrincess]

Well. I am looking foward to the day people wake up and ask all these white-race defenders and racists to leave.

There's nothin' wrong on welcoming other races in other countreys. It's part of our new, modern culture which is a mixed one.

Say NO to rasicsm.

[IMFLORIDA305]

@laDecemberPrincess Research African history,pre-colonialism and you'll see why asians,arabs,& euros "Should Not" be welcomed in the Mother continent.

[HungphatSumlo1]

Looking forward to the day whites wake up and ask the invaders from Africa and Asia to leave. They don't belong in Europe.

There is nothing natural about welcoming people from other races into your home. Only sick animals in nature do that.

The correct way to live is to define your boundaries and defend them.

[mrlawlman96]

DON'T BLAME A COUNTRY FOR BEING RACISTS, BLAME THE RACISTS WORLD WIDE!

[zman55405]

K'naan what an activist, real talk bro western media is afraid to acknowledge people what is really taking place in some of these countries that are being ravaged by westerners, i doubt that anyone would be proud to be an american if the truth was revealed. But none care but their own so we know what these so called peacekeepers are inflicting upon our people and we struggle with them, we're kind of paralyzed in the sense that we can't really extend a helping hand.

[amund94]

I hope you come to Norway some time. Most people know at least waving flags seeing how it is the football world cup theme song:D

[Honyqueen]

omg knaan was in sweden I hope he comes back I want to see his concerts. Everithyng he says is true there is so much rasicsm in sweden

[fotbolls95]

56 % racism is on sweden i live in this country i love you K'nan why hate eatchower ? we are all human but sweden think they are the best -.-''

[mrlawlman96]

This was made by sick people, and not by the Swedish people as many of you seem too think. Sweden should NOT be blamed for this as it is a great country. We welcome very many immigrants with open arms and take care of them, UNLIKE many other countries, take USA for a example, who first let immigrants in and then don't take care of them, throwing them out on the street.

I'm very sorry for what happened to K'NAAN and I don't really understand why.

Peace.

[alonsodenis]

if you blame Sweden, it means that you blame all swedish in this world. so you can't blame Sweden. and i think in this topic, Sweden can not be related. The solution all of this "Take back off american military and england military" (This is include about iraq and palestine problem). but, in my Theory I think there is no Peace for this world until The Doomsday.

[Mamou63]

What happend to k'naan?

[sharre25]

swedish guys kicked his ass!! :S :(

[HerroHerrar]

it was fascist cops you idiot

[sabaabuu]

knnan fuck

[faynadia]

big up K'naan..you a Real brother..Keep on I love what you do!

[celticcrossrosaryuk]

Sweden is a great country.

[calitalk]

fucc u white ppl lool nah i mean da men bt the women dey cool maaayn dey love dis choclate dikk aint dat right katie/hahaha

[joshwuzhere1]

fuck u rascist bastard man u just desgraced not just ur race but all of us colored people u fcking pig

[tyrantofglory]

Typical. Complaining about racism and living in white country.

Probably has a white girlfriend or boyfriend also.

[theavataraboveall]

Do you even know what happened?

[tyrantofglory]

You're about to tell me about how the white man did something wrong to the black man?

Black people are much more cruel to each other in any case. And the bottom line is blacks will always choose a white nation over their own.

[SwedishDictatorship]

Swedish government has benn robbing Africa since 1956. Swedish weapons (Bofors SAAB Dynamics) has been killing in Africa since 1970. Swedish oil company LUNDIN OIL has been murdering African people for 18 years. Swedish government har been bribing African leaders since 1985. Swedish gov. put embargo against Afican leaders who does NOT sell their country to USA. Swedish government is the devil, so WAKE UP!

[lil10dot]

@SwedishDictatorship really?? :OOO how do u know thats all true??

[SwedishDictatorship]

@lil10dot I am the journalist that has revealed the biggest scandals in the history of Sweden. Police officer Kjell Stigsson Bornerheim (June 17 1947) was murdered because of my work. I worked with the best jounralists in Sweden since 2005 and I have been threatened by the Swedish secret police several times to NOT look into the Swedish governments business. I have the best contacts in the world and I can get any information about Bilderberg WTC Afghan Heroin CIA etc etc.

[Tzaaky]

@SwedishDictatorship Just swedish government?

You stupid fuck .. You really thinking sweden is making more damage then like the shame of earth USA?

Or russia with their mob and fucked up politics?

If someone need to wake up, it is you and your weird thoughts. We need to stop discrimination and rascism world wide, for a better world.

I ain't saying that sweden is better then any other country, cuz it isn't .. Fuck the police and rascism world wide aight haha

[Radanle]

@SwedishDictatorship It's the western people that are ignorant not just the government. I use to say what u said when people say sweden do much fo peace, noones listen....

[Radanle]

@SwedishDictatorship and it's not all like that in sweden anyway :D There are many immigrants here, ad somalis is one of the biggest groups of immigrants to sweden :)

[notalentable]

@SwedishDictatorship most of all rich countries are intersted to see the poor countries stayng poor..

[TheSkrufStark]

@SwedishDictatorship you are paranoid. stop smoking weed.

[EmileA266]

@TheSkrufStark lol, you're thinking of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, kinda above Belgium and west of Germany. Sweden is super north above Germany, much less weed there.

As for Sweden's government being a bunch of pillaging murderers, I don't know any specifics about that. I do know that the US's CIA and the UK's MI6 have been heavily involved in propping up puppets in Africa to funnel its resources out cheaply for about 60 years now. They picked up where European colonization left off

[TheSkrufStark]

@EmileA266 What? I am Swedish. No need to tell me where im from, lol.

[alfoonz]

@SwedishDictatorship Just bcuz we sell our shit doesnt mean we KNOW what its goin to be used for? Dickhead....

[josted]

@SwedishDictatorship

Bullshit! this video and your text is anti-swedish, leftist propaganda, where you slander the whole swedish nation and the swedish people, and where this k´naan assert that we are some "evil" racists. Sweden is a net-contriubuter to Africa thrue trade and economic aid. We sell weapons to everybody as long as you can pay. Lundin affairs have been discussed officially and their business have been managed according to international law and regulations.

[DamarcosG]

Dam fak all da modern rappers we need K'naan hes are generations 2pac!!!!!!!!

[ajmiller61981]

If only he was single....hey a gal can dream can't she?

[SoFlyCee]

his wife is so lucky, what a beautiful, intelligent man.

[banandababa]

K'naan has a wife?!

[1000thmonkey]

brilliant

eloquent

caring

awesome human soul

[SoFlyCee]

i agree :)

[luvemdark]

K'naan is brilliant

[Gunnar125]

I dont get it.

[Ibizzleinc]

I live in that city xD , couple of blocks down the road.

[erayseyma]

RESPECT....you even wear the tesbih around your neck! keep it up...please! people need your lyrics...lyrical rebellion lyrical protest...lyrical poetic truth!

[avivagabriel]

Smart, articulate, and topnotch, K'naan. I admire you for your political/cultural understanding, and ability to express it, as well as for your original, innovative music.

[zarabcdef]

first of all big up to knaan lool i loved his hardcore track..'ill make 50cent look like limbiskitt' loool 'here we call that popcorn' referring a hand gun what western gangsters rap about to a AK in africa especially somalia.....

with regard to hate amongs people in africa..its one of those things that humans cant live with out...people just dont kno how to appreciate difference...in every race there are gud people and bad people

[lovelyQ1]

this dude needs to worry about his country..not the whole damn continent...u aint gon see negerian or anyother african talkin about somalia..why talk about the,m shiit....kaneen worry abt were u came from aiight

peace

jaimacan dude u said some somalis r darker than u?? well duhh we are dark skinned but we dont have nappy hair and big ass nose like ya'll...true u guys are JAREER period..full stop..later

[AfricaNooS]

What a dumb bitch... K'naan bro keep up the good word. We need more people like you who care about their people and trying to speak up about our issues.. Much love wallaaaaalo..

[maiminah23]

first of all i don't really care what you call me, the only people who sit down talking about straight hair and nose are those who feel inferior to those who are lighter than them, i know what my hair is like u don't! and if it is hard, its not the end of the world!

if i iam jareer then Al hamdulillah Allah is al khaliq, and iam pleased with what he has given..but as for peeps like you, i really do feel sorry for. salaam

[Ladyprecious02]

Bruv unfortunatly there are some ignorant people in this world, no matter what race or colour but what kills it most is that black's start deviding them selfs n getting all up racist on each other, especially somalians, we the biggest racists on tha planet.. Hell we racist to our own.. A waste of time and effort, when they should be uniting. Sad but true so dont listen to people like that, do your thing and remember they will face Allah (SWT) one day! salaam

[maiminah23]

first of all i don't really care what you call me, the only people who sit down talking about straight hair and nose are those who feel inferior to those who are lighter than them, i know what my hair is like u don't! and if it is hard, its not the end of the world!

if i iam jareer then Al hamdulillah Allah is al khaliq, and iam pleased with what he has given..but as for peeps like you, i really do feel sorry for. salaam

[Afghanen]

omg! A bluenigger...

[abkassim]

waryaa wax caqliga gala ku hadal

the somalis are killed because of thier race and religion. full stop.........

anyone who attempts to peel off his skin cause of identity crisis will suffer forever in this world therfore no wonder why kan'aan is kicked in his ass and mistreaed racially.

[abkassim]

Euterpi001

shitty place ha that explains how igonorant you are it is not more shitty than our country......but the bottom line is the principle peiod.

at least those shore religion and culture but the jamaicans beleive amhar haile selassie as their God...

kolayba walaweyn ann wax iskuflayn baad tahay naclad baa adiga iyo wixi ku dhalayba ku yaal.

[maiminah22]

they come and jus rinse out the benefit money let their kids run wild, then they have the check to come into the country where i was born and call me names, if their so good go back to where you came from ans stay there, bloody racist, what colour do you think you are, WHITE?

[puresolidstrength]

i dont believe u are married to one looooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo­ol

[maiminah22]

why not?

[maiminah22]

somalis r racist full stop. iam married to one, i am black jamaican but i am not as dark as some of them but i still hear things like, JAMAICAAN, HABASH, JAREER and all that crap, i think they need to look at themself first

[BBabyGurLLL]

What are you talking about? Somalis are racist to ourself, Forget about other Blacks. Somalis dislike other Somalis because of their clane. Why are there civil war in Somalia? That's the way some Somalis are but not all of us are like that.

[puresolidstrength]

seriously are you married to a somalian? lol why marry a somali in the first place if u know you they will get racist?

[laascaanood87]

hahah

[maiminah22]

no, she is not like that, what i ment is that because i no a bit of the language and iam around them more and she tells me things this is how i get to know what they are saying

[jam11one]

i am jamaican but im not as dark as some of them! i mean what that make u better than the darker jamaican? come on who gives a fuck! how dark r light u r......jamaica to the world black, white, brown, asian, arabic, out of many one people mi seh......

[maiminah22]

ytyytytyt

[abkassim]

Listen K'anaan the africans U R talking bout are raping your fellow hawiye women in the streets of mogadishu and enjoying killing babies.Keep lying you ratsa lover jamaican wannabe....

[Euterpe001]

You're just jealous that you're 50 and still living in a shitty country.

[ineedmoneylol]

somalis have nappy niggas and kingky pplz ..Were all africans we cant hate but unite Ya digg ...

[HoNeYChiCk89]

Yeah you right somalis are even racist towards themselve but All this hating have nothing to do with the way people look. That's all I'm saying. And the killings in South Arica do not only happen to somalis but also to nigerians and those from Zimbabwe. Some of those low class negros over there don't like to see other blacks having some succes.

[StraightouttaSomalia]

somalis are racists n qabyaalists to negro africans and also somali clans...its da reason y somali people are killed in southafrica

[HoNeYChiCk89]

And no Iam not a liar. Maybe you should take U ass out of here and leave us africans alone.

[HoNeYChiCk89]

Somalis can get alone with kenyans and even speak swahili as their mother language when they're in Kenya but they don't do that in Ethiopia. And no I am not a bantu I am a proud Somali and a proud african. I want us to unite not hate each other.

[HoNeYChiCk89]

Loool. Dude I didn't said most somalis have broad noses I said many. And let me tell you one thing Africans generally are racist towards other africans. It's not something new. And it has nothing to do with some other africans facial feature many somalis have that too. Somalis and ethiopians hate eachother like they are the biggest enemies the same with eritrean and ethiopians. Is that because of their facial feature? no I don't think so.

[HoNeYChiCk89]

oliviathecanadian, plz U don't know anything about somalis. There is many somalis with broad noses and most somalis have kinky hair. Many africans hates other africans especially the ones who are neighrbours and that has something to do with colonisation of Africa. So shut the fuck up. U said somalis hate africans who aren't ethiopians plz ethiopian and somalis are the biggest enemies and so are ertreans and ethiopians. So go and educate Youself before you speak.

[YaaWalad]

Stop lying...we both know that Somalis are racist to other africans because of there facial features and that...Lakiin how did you come to the conclusion that most Somalis have broad nose?..are you somali Bantu by any chance?...

w w w . somaliwide . co . nr

[oliviathecanadian]

liar

[oliviathecanadian]

ok somalian people are soooooo racist against other african people outside of eritrea and ethiopia. They hate us because we have broad noses and kinky hair .......so dont listen to him whine about white people he should solve his own countrymens issues first

[YaaWalad]

Yes your right...

w w w . somaliwide . co . nr

[psuess]

Actually he's in Munich.

[clickers10]

SWEDEN!!!

[CreoleCommando]

What he says resonates with what I believe, who could imagine Sweden the leading "anti-Apartied" European nation! Was all that for getting Lucrative Jet Fighter Deals from ANC ruled South Africa? I have read that the Swedish PM who was killed back 85/86 his death was celebrated by Swedish University students?

[arodardoardo]

waw he is deep.

[Lat93]

Such intellect is deep!

And attractive..;-)

[xonder]

I agree, they (europeans, whites, the race of devils whatever you call them)do have a huge superiority complex- an unwarranted one considering the less than noble means they used to attain their lofty position.

[die4ethio]

repact my brother

[Pirate7X]

Keep bringing the truth & good art K'Naan. Ignore the bumbaclaat ignorance.

[ballay612]

OOH ALLAH l@@K!!its K'NAAN again talking about sh*te he doesn't know????what's your problem???

[burcoqueen]

!!!it's still going on today!!!!

[nikesoccer17]

Dont diss Knaan he so cool as a somailan he's right so fuck off

[Jsayman]

I dont Relly Care about the whole history thing lol the fact is tht the people there were racist

[LIVEtru2U]

Documented "HIS-story" can always be questioned and debated. Sometimes it is what wasn't made available in documents, and made available to us, that is the most truthful and important. I will only say this, K'naan's rationalizing of Europe's crimes against Africa, as basically mind-conditioning from literature, is actually very constructive, and sways the idea of these people just being EVIL,DESTRUCTIVE, and HATEFULL.

[ScarFaze90]

i dont event want to comment on this ...

[LogikalEthix]

Intuition786 I agree with you

check out stolenfromafrica com

[Intuition786]

Respect brotha...and much love, continued blessings and prosperity with what your spirit is adding to our collective.

T.

[Biggy56]

i think K naan was as usual on crack when talkin this shit. He has no proof to what he says, yet tries to be philosophical. Why couldnt he name the ''white'' writer who said this shit he pretends to quote

[Intuition786]

K'Naan is simply sharing insight on his thoughts regarding Eurocentric mentality. You don't disagree that Africa and its people were and continue to be devastated by the greed and dehumanization of Colonialists/Capitalists, right?

K'Naan is simply putting a context to the reasoning of the mass European mindset based on known literature...understand...or has my comment also been interpreted as yet another, who 'tries to be philosophical'?

Peace, light and understanding Biggy56...

[Biggy56]

The simple fact of the matter is most Africans keep on nagging about what the whites did during colonialism or slavery more than 1000 years ago and this makes us look even weaker. We have to stop blaming all our problems on the white man because we are in the 21 st century. This pathetic mindset of self-pity which is all too evident in your psyche must be replaces one in which we Africans must take our own fate and destiny into our hands.

[Intuition786]

Taking ownership of ones fate doesn't cross out ones right to speak of actions that have led to ones current situation. Acknowledgement is separate form whining & I don't see K'Naan as whining. Via his music the current struggle of African people is brought to mass consciousness & attention given back to people who, the wealthier (not necessarily white) human collective, demonstrates lack of care for. We are our brother's keepers as much as we own our own personal destiny and fate.

[ylakes]

"nagging about what the whites did during colonialism or slavery more than 1000 years"...are u serious...are u fvcking stupid...colonialism only started in the 19th century... Somalia itself didn't get independence until the 1960s, that's less than 50 years ago, South Africa didn't get sh!t until the 90's....The simple fact is that YOU should grab a book and, learn your history, learn your heritage...then maybe you could bring something constructive to the debate.

[Biggy56]

Ylakes, you should have done some research before you felt like opening your big mouth. Infact it is well documented by historians that the use of African slaves began in 1200 AD when Italian merchants established sugar plantations on several Mediterranean islands and started importing black slaves to work on them. These blacks were bought or captured from North African Arabs, who had enslaved them for years. Slavery has existed ever since humans existed.

[jabwarabe]

Biggy56, K`naan is not quoting any writer. All he is trying to bring to light is the inhumane racial assault he suffered when performing a concert in sweden. Those guys were real racists.

[willlliw]

do you think he is lying?

[nowhere8]

ok here's another example of strategic racism from "whites" with proof. My source is : Encyclopedia Britannica. There you will find that Carton S. Coon (A discredited scientist of his time) created categories called "races" based on morphology (how people look). Scientific community called it garbage, but racist governments adopted his ideas in order to create these convenient social categories called "races." Feel free to look it up. The story K'naan explained sounds familiar as well.

[Maakhiri]

well said. the brother has a sound judgement.