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The talk has all been about what Beyoncé's lyrics reveal about her marriage to Jay Z. But one thing picked up by many critics was the influence of African traditions and contemporary artists that she's included. Naila Keleta-Mae is an Assistant Professor of Theatre and Performance at the University of Waterloo where she taught a course on Beyonce's work. She's been telling Bola Mosuro about the references to black culture in Beyoncé's new work. (Picture: Beyoncé and Jay Z, at a Gala at the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art in May 2015. Credit: Mike Coppola, GETTY.)