Listen to this when
Where Is Home?
For when 'home' doesn't feel safe 🏠
Who it's for
Kele Okereke wrote this after the racist murder of a young Black man in London, asking where Black Britons are supposed to feel at home.
Shaken and unwelcome→Heard
Feelings it meets
What it is
"Where Is Home?" is the seventh track on Bloc Party's 2007 album A Weekend in the City. Kele Okereke's lyrics begin at the funeral of Christopher Alaneme, a Black teenager killed in a racially motivated attack in Kent in April 2006, whom Okereke described as a cousin through their mothers' close friendship.
Where to find it
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Before you start
Heads up: References to racist violence and murder.
Age: Suggested 13+
I know why the caged bird sings, ah me,Paul Laurence Dunbar, “Sympathy”
