His name means “traveler” and Somali-born poet, rapper and musician K’naan has certainly come a long way. The hip-hop sensation, who’s been compared by critics to both reggae hero Bob Marley and rap ...

It was a warm, wet night in Manhattan in 2006, and K'naan was taking a walk alone, trying to shake off some disturbing news. It might have been something immediate, or perhaps something that had ...

The point of actual overlap came and went quickly for the rappers K’Naan and Wale at the Fillmore at Irving Plaza on Wednesday night. It happened during K’Naan’s half of a double bill, on a boast ...

Canadian-Somali artist K’naan, whose unofficial World Cup anthem “Wavin’ Flag” became a No. 1 hit in more than a dozen countries, has released an inspiring new single and video honouring refugees. A ...

If you are a traveller and treasure your worn-out passport, then you'd surely find K'naan's faded and rough-edged Canadian passport a thing of envy. The colourful visas inside are scenes in a tapestry ...

Somali-born rapper and musician K'naan became a success based, at least in part, on gritty stories from his childhood in war-torn Mogadishu. But on his most recent album, Country, God, Or the Girl, ...

It’s good that K’naan, the Somali-Canadian-brilliant rapper, is asking Mitt Romney to stop using his song, “Wavin’ Flag,” at campaign rallies. As with many politicians and artists who get into this ...