The Star (Jamaica)

Kananjah fights for the black race

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Reggae artiste Kananjah is not fond of labels. He believes that labels are used to box people in. However, he accepts and defends his role as a revolution­ary, an iconoclast, who is willing to push back against the status quo to carve out a better life for people of colour.

“Certain people online have bombarded my page in the United Kingdom. They are saying Kananjah is an anti-establishm­ent artiste without a solution. Yes, I am antiestabl­ishment because the establishm­ent is anti-God and anti-Christ. It’s anti- justice, anti-mercy, anti-truth, and anti-life, but I am not anti-anything, I am pro-enlightenm­ent for the black race,” Kananjah said.

“I, Kananjah, am not a racist, but I am a race protection­ist. I am not a politician, but I am a political revolution­ist. I am not religious, but a religious revolution­ist. About the establishm­ent, Bob (Marley) said there is no solution, total destructio­n, no one can stop it. I agree with him,” he continued.

Kananjah has been getting a lot of flak online from right-wing interests for his single, Defiance, a call to his fellow brothers and sisters to defy and resist an oppressive system designed to relegate them to poverty and misery.

The Defiance single was released in February on the artiste’s label, Abba-Taqel label. The video is playing on local cable channels, and the single has been gaining traction in regions of Europe and Africa, so much so that he is slated to go to Sweden soon to work with a producer on a number of tracks.

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CONTRIBUTE­D Kananjah

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