Camae Ayewa is an American poet, rapper and community organiser who grew up in a public housing project in Aberdeen, Maryland – a poor, tight knit neighbourhood. Alienation and racism was commonplace in her community, where important and intimate connections were often forged by shared grievances between locals. Exploding with creativity and a political message, Ayewa turned to music to express her rage and thus Moor Mother was born, wrenched out by the aching, broken world she woke up to every morning. “Ukuba wumdlali weSundowns kwenza uzikhethe izindawo ongahlala kuzona. Lapho sijwayele khona ukuthola izindawo kumba eqolo ngoba kuyaziwa ukuthi sidlalela iSundowns ngakho-ke imali ithi tata kithina. Njengamanje asikwazi ukuqasha izindawo ngoba kufakwa imali enkulu yokubambisa okungaba yinkinga uma umqeqeshi esebuya ekukhomba eFree State kumbe KwaZulu Natal. Siphila ngokukhokhela usuku ngalunye okuyinto esibulalayo ephaketheni ngoba kwezinye izindawo kukhokhwa u-R500 ngosuku,” usho kanje omunye walaba badlali okhulume noPotshoza ngesivumelwano sokuthi igama lakhe ngeke livele.