Hip Hop Language Translations
‘We plan to burn your book’
A man emailed me last week to say that he will bring his followers to a public park in Amsterdam on June 22 and burn Het Negerboek, which is the new Dutch edition of my novel The Book of Negroes.
Rytmus – Zlatokopky (English Translation)
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