African americans from cultural and representational stasis. Simone was as equally invested in social activism as she was. She is simply nina simone, a voice in the wilderness of modernity and industrialised society which cries out to be heard.

Nina simone composed Ò€œmississippi goddamÒ€--her biting song about racial injustice--in september 1963, immediately after four young girls in birmingham, alabama, died in a church bombing. It was no that, when a seventeen-year-old in england formed a club devoted to simone's in 1965, he intentionally named it the nina simone appreciation society than the more common fan club Ò€¦