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If you read this paragraph about Kanye West from today’s Observer and don’t do a double take, you have fewer preconceptions than I.
An only child (‘Kanye’ is an Ethiopian name which means ‘the only one’), whose parents split before he was a year old and who divorced when he was four, Kanye was mainly raised by his doting mother, Donda. They are still extremely close; he wrote a song for her on his last album, ‘Hey Mama’, which, sweetly, she now has as the ringtone on her cellphone. When Kanye was still a young child, they moved from Atlanta, Georgia, to Chicago, where she became the chair of the English department at Chicago State University before latterly taking over as his manager. > >