We invite students to register for a lyrics workshop with Akua Naru, hip hop artist and CSREA Artist-in-Residence (Fall 2019). Akua will speak about her writing process and will survey other rap lyric writers to analyze various techniques.

Registration is required with only 15 spots available. Registration opens on Thursday, September 26 at 8:30 AM. Click here to register. Pizza will be provided.

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Akua Naru is a Hip Hop artist, producer, activist, and scholar, who theorizes the myriad experiences of Black women through rhyme along a sonic spectrum from Jazz to Soul. She has released four albums: “…the journey aflame (2011)”, “Live & Aflame Sessions (2012)”, “The Miner’s Canary (2015)”, and “The Blackest Joy (2018)”–three of which were on the label she co-founded, The Urban Era.

Akua has performed hundreds of shows in more than fifty countries across five continents with her 6-piece band. She has been invited to lecture at Harvard, Oxford, Cornell, Princeton, Fordham, University of Cologne (Germany), Ahfad University for Women (Sudan), and Pivot Point College (China), among countless others.

Prior to coming to Brown, Akua Naru was the Nasir Jones Fellow at the Hutchins Center for African & African American Research, Harvard University (2018-19). She is currently developing an online multimedia archive of black women hip-hop artists called the Keeper Project.