ETHNOMUS 25 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Muammar Gaddafi, Black Nationalism, United States Dollar
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September 15, 2011 (cid:70) 3 mins read (http://africasacountry. com/2011/09/15/tupac-in-africa/thug-life-manenberg/) This week, fifteen years ago, the rapper tupac shakur was gunned down on a las vegas street. The combination of his personality he was a gifted storyteller (http://www. washingtonpost. com/blogs/therootdc/post/tupac-shakurs-death-15-years- later/2011/09/13/giqaevkdpk_blog. html) , an explosive personality and had an intensity that was unrivaled among most pop stars. As robert pierre writes on his blog (http://www. washingtonpost. com/blogs/therootdc/post/tupac-shakurs-death-15-years- later/2011/09/13/giqaevkdpk_blog. html) at the washington post: whatever he was doing, he was all in. All in with black nationalism for a while. All in with his love for black women. Tupac, of course, came from a very political family, so he must have understood his impact. (he acknowledged as much in interviews. ). And as we know, his intensity did not just appeal to just young people here in the united states, but also on the continent. As a 2003 woodrow wilson center report (http://www. beps. net/publications/beps- Urbanizationwaryouthatrisk-. pdf) on young people in the developing world, notes:
