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Kelefa T. Sanneh born is a British-born American journalist and music critic. From to , he wrote for The New York Times , covering the rock and roll , hip-hop , and pop music scenes. Since he has been a staff writer for The New Yorker.

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Sanneh was born in Birmingham , West Midlands , England, and spent his early years in Ghana and Scotland , before his family moved to Massachusetts in , then to Connecticut in Sanneh graduated from Harvard University in with a degree in literature. Sanneh's thesis paper, The Black Galactic: Toward A Greater African America , combined interests in music, literature and culture in writing about The Nation of Islam and the Sun Ra Arkestra as efforts to transcend oppression in the African-American experience with desires to travel into outer space.

Sanneh garnered considerable publicity for an article he wrote in the October 31, , edition of The New York Times titled "The Rap against Rockism". The article brought to light to the general public a debate among American and British music critics about rockism, a term Sanneh defined to mean "idolizing the authentic old legend or underground hero while mocking the latest pop star; lionizing punk while barely tolerating disco; loving the live show and hating the music video; extolling the growling performer while hating the lip-syncher.

Before covering music for the Times , Sanneh was the deputy editor of Transition , a journal of race and culture, based at the W. Sanneh wrote the "Project Trinity," which appeared in The New Yorker's April 7, , edition, to give context to the controversial comments of Reverend Jeremiah Wright , who was Barack Obama 's pastor.