Akua Naru
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Born
Connecticut, US
OthernamesAkua Olatunji
Occupationship hop MC, rapper, poet, professor
EmployerUC Santa Cruz
Akua Naru | |
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 with The Digflo Band in Vienna in 2015 | |
| Born | Connecticut, US |
| Other names | Akua Olatunji |
| Occupations | hip hop MC, rapper, poet, professor |
| Employer | UC Santa Cruz |
| Website | akua-naru |
Akua Naru (also known as Akua Olatunji),[1] is a rapper from Connecticut, United States. Her hip-hop music incorporates styles including soul and jazz. In 2018 she began archiving the achievements of women in hip-hop at Harvard University as a Nasir Jones Hip-hop Fellow at the Hip-hop Archive Research Institute.[2] Naru has been particularly successful in Europe, where she lived from 2008 until joining the music faculty at University of California, Santa Cruz in 2024. Presently, she holds a Pavel Machotka Chair in Creative Studies at Porter College.[3]
