The Big Read: Black to Basics

I am fucking proud of being African," declares Nakhane Touré. What else would one expect the musician and author whose creative last name was inspired by one of Africa's greatest musicians - Ali Farka Touré - to say? "So much work has been done to ensure that I am not proud, to make sure that I understand that I am not a human being, that everything that was created by my mothers and fathers was sub-par," he continues.