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New Yorker Festival Interview
- Marc Maron and Kelefa Sanneh reminisce about a past interview at the New Yorker Festival.
- Maron jokingly claims he made Sanneh cry by playing clips from the show.
Sanneh's Family Background
- Kelefa Sanneh discusses his family background, with a Gambian father and a white South African mother.
- His father, a historian of religion, grew up in Gambia and later taught at Harvard and Yale.
Early Musical Influences
- Sanneh's early musical influences included traditional Gambian music and hip hop.
- At 14, a friend gave him a punk rock mixtape, which changed his musical perspective.