'Enongo' follows a rapper and academic, who once lived in Philly, as she finds her voice

Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo holds a Ph.D. in science and technology studies from Cornell University and has been teaching at another Ivy League college for the past five years. She's also the underground rapper Sammus, who takes her name from Nintendo video game franchise "Metroid." Sammus, like the bounty hunter heroine of the series, occasionally wields an arm cannon on stage. MORE: Volunteers are cataloging NPS markers targeted by Trump, including at Independence National Park

That's an intriguing contrast, but it only begins to encapsulate Lumumba-Kasongo, who raps on her 2016 track "Mighty Morphing" that she's not one thing, two things, three things or even four things. A new documentary playing the Philadelphia Film Festival attempts to weave them all together.

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