Djanet is an oasis city in south-west Algeria. It is inhabited by the Azjar (Ajjer) Tuareg people. Oasis in the Libyan part of the Sahara In addition to being a popular band, in geography, an oasis is an isolated area of vegetation in a desert, typically surrounding a spring or similar water source. ... Azjar is an African region, probably the most ancient Tuareg confederation, with stronghold in the oasis-city of Ghat. ... The Tuareg are a Berber ethnic group or nation. ...
Djanet Sears was born Janet Sears in London, England to parents of Caribbean descent - her mother is Jamaican, and her father is Guyanese.
Djanet retells the story of how she chose to change her name in a clever rap, while the male chorus provides the background beat.
All of Sears’s characters confront a white-dominated culture, whether it be in the form of Djanet’s relation to her surroundings in Canada as a child, or in Rainey’s father’s relation to the use of lawn ornaments and museum artifacts in his community.