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M.I.A. Visits Oxford Union And Discusses Refugee Crisis & Life As Creative

May 11, 2017. Leave a Comment

In late April, U.K.-based musician M.I.A. aka Mathangi Arulpragasam visited Oxford Union (a debate and speaker platform) at Oxford University, where she discussed refugee crisis and the current state of affairs for Tamil people in Sri Lanka. She also responded to questions about her career as a musician.

M.I.A. also spoke about “blobs,” an Illuminati-esque unidentified entity that consumes presidents and leaders and changes them, a phenomenon she believes impacted by Barack Obama and Donald Trump.

Oxford Union published the exchange yesterday and you can check it out below.

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