Nationality American Other names Akua Olatunji Occupation(s) hip hop MC, rapper, poet Akua Naru (also known as Akua Olatunji),[1] is a rapper from Connecticut, United States. Naru has been particularly successful in Europe, where she has lived since 2008. Her hip-hop music incorporates styles including soul and jazz. In 2018 she began archiving the achievements of women in hip-hop at Harvard University as a Nasir Jones Hip-hop Fellow at the Hip-hop Archive Research Institute