K'naan: Troubadour (Champion Edition) | CD review

(Polydor)There's only been one guaranteed success in the World Cup so far, and that's Somalia. If holding the competition in South Africa was supposed to raise the profile of the continent as a whole, then it's only right that the world's most popular football anthem of the moment should be sung by an exile from what K'naan accurately describes as "the hardest place on earth right now". Unsurprisingly, his gloriously uplifting Wavin' Flag appears three times on an album that's been repackaged to...

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