Communications Intern WANTED AT WORDS BEATS & LIFE

 

 
REPORTS TO: Executive Director as member of Executive Staff
PURPOSE: To assist the organization’s communications program with tasks associated with outreach and publicity. Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, generating blog/website/newsletter content, drafting press releases and media advisories, maintaining social media presence, and other tasks as requested by the Executive director.

About Words Beats & Life, Inc. Founded in 2002, Words Beats & Life transforms individuals and whole communities through the core elements of hip-hop culture. At the heart of all that we do is the belief that hip-hop can serve as the necessary filter between hope and despair for the youth of the District of Columbia. WBL currently serves 150 students at its three Urban Arts Academy sites in D.C. and up to 300 students during the summer. At WBL, we feel that hip-hop is the ideal means for creative expression to break the cycle of hopelessness because of its history and culture, which is rooted in the community itself. By valuing hip-hop culture, we validate the students themselves. Our staff develops curriculum, projects, and programs geared specifically towards breaking the cycle of poverty and hopelessness. WBL also organizes a local and national network of hip-hop based organizations (The Cipher), which equips organizational leaders with the tools and experiences necessary to build sustainable communities. WBL accomplishes its goals through two main program areas—The Urban Arts Academy, a pre-vocational arts program for youth ages 5-23 in the District of Columbia, and The Cipher, a growing resource for our ever-expanding network of hip-hop based organizations. This year, The Cipher will expand to four geographies for its third national gathering, Remixing the Art of Social Change: A Hip-Hop Approach teach-ins: St. Paul, Minnesota; Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco, CA; and Washington, D.C. Past teach-ins have drawn a total of over 150 organizations from around the U.S. doing comparable work that were previously working in isolation from one another. The Cipher is a multi-component program that is completely unique in the hip-hop nonprofit field. However, the focus is singular—to serve as an invaluable resource to hip-hop independent artists, non-profit organizations, scholars and activists both nationally and internationally. This is accomplished by providing research-based resources, convening members of the field, establishing promising practices for this field, advocating on behalf of the field with members of the foundation and corporate communities.

Words Beats & Life in Uganda

About DC Urban Arts Academy At the heart of all that we do is the belief that hip-hop can serve as the necessary filter between hope and despair for the youth of the District of Columbia. WBL is committed to producing learning journeys through hip-hop that lead Academy students to succeed in our three focus areas: Employability, Skill Mastery, and Post-Secondary Education. We accomplish our goals through two main program areas—The Urban Arts Academy and The Cipher. The Academy is a pre-vocational arts program for youth ages 5-23 in the District of Columbia.

Our Vision: The Urban Arts Academy seeks to use hip-hop culture as a vehicle to increase youth development in employability, mastery, and self-awareness. To foster a new generation of students and scholars who see the value in preparations, mastery, and extended learning.

Our Mission: It is through the development of intergenerational relationships rooted in hip-hop culture, the staff of the Urban Arts Academy work closely with the students as Mentors. These mentoring relationships allow the teaching artists, to share their skills as a means of increasing the students cognitive, communication, and interpersonal skills. To use our talents as artist to be the buffer between hope and hopelessness. To use, hip-hop as the ideal medium through which to create such a buffer. To use the sound aesthetic movement written language of the culture to teach geography, science, art, history and more.

Our Goals:
 1. To promote post secondary education to all our students
 2. To create a positive community young scholars, artists, and musicians
3. To host the premiere events for young hip-hop artists in the Washington DC area
4. To develop an appreciation for the history, techniques, and developments of the elements of hip-hop.
 5. To promote the study and evaluation of hip-hop culture in an academic environment.
6. To promote youth development through the arts; particularly hip-hop.
7. To decrease the number of students in gang activity, drug activity, and destructive behavior.
8. To expose the DC community to the talent and contributions of its young people.

Mazi at WBL Mural

PRINICPLE DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITES:
• Generate text for the website/blog
• Generate text for the newsletter
• Managing social media outlets
• Draft press releases and media advisories
• Research media outlets and journalists to disseminate press releases to
• Distribute press releases and advisories
• Maintain database of past media coverage

QUALIFICATIONS:
 • Must be knowledgeable or have a small a working knowledge of hip-hop
• Must have the ability to work independently, at the same time, being able to follow through on multiple projects/deadlines with minimal oversight;
• Must have strong interpersonal and written communications skills

OUTCOMES:
• Securing at least one form of media coverage per month (Blog, Radio, TV, print)
 • Creating press release and media release for all major WBL programs, events and projects.
• Update the WBL website weekly with reviews, photos and event descriptions and reviews.
• Help to manage relationship with WPFW to insure the broadcast of WBL panel discussions

LOCATION: 1525 Newton St NW Washington DC 20010
HOURS: 10am-6pm
PERSONALITY/WORKSTYLE: Outgoing, loves to smile, great interpersonal skills, experience working with people of diverse backgrounds, organized, works well independently, and a positive attitude towards learning.

Start date

June 4, 2012

End date

August 17, 2012

Application deadline

May 1, 2012

Hours per week

10

Compensation

Unpaid

The 9th Annual Uganda Hip Hop summit

The 9th Annual Uganda Hiphop Summit

The Uganda HipHop Foundation & Bavubuka Foundation, recognize the power of Hip-Hop music and culture to catalyze positive social change. Hip-Hop is modern youth’s cultural foundation, and symbolizes the ability of people living in marginalized communities to flourish and live their dreams. With the vision of creating a peace building platform that empowers and unifies young people from diverse communities, we continue to create a voice for the youth in Uganda.

The Hip Hop Summit has been an on-going event for the last seven years. The main aim of the summit is promote the hip hop culture in Uganda by empowering the youth and creating positive awareness through music and culture. The Hip Hop Summit is targeted to the youth crowd mainly students aged 18-25 years old. It features live performances by local and international Uganda’s top urban artists from the Hip Hop and R&B genres. The Hip Hop summit is not just about The Concert. During the day time there is a series forums and workshops that are carried out by Uganda's top Hip Hop icons and role models. The summit touches other areas of Hip Hop culture by featuring a DJ scratching demonstration, a B-Boy dance battle, a Graffiti art display, a Motivation speakers, and a Hip Hop Fashion Show.

Favorite Quotations:
"There is a self Liberating truth in celebrating the indigenous in you". THE BEAUTIFUL SPIRIT OF THE SUMMIT THIS YEAR WILL BE BLESSED BY APPEARANCES FROM:

THE HIP HOP SUMMIT FORUM HOSTED BY: BABALUKU - UGLY EMCEE -XENSON
CELEBRATING THE HIP HOP STORIES OF UGANDA

HIGH LIGHTED STORIES:
BAVUBUKA ALLSTARZ MOVEMENT
BONFIRE MOVEMENT
BABOON FOREST ENT.
SWAGG AFRICA

INSPIRATIONAL HIP HOP MINI DOCS MUSIC VIDEOS AND TRAILERS FROM UGANDA & AROUND THE WORLD.

WORDS BEATS & LIFE - NORMADIC WAX - BAVUBUKA DYNASTY

LEGENDARY FROM THE OLD TO THE NEW SCHOOL PERFOMANCES BY
LYRICAL.G - GMC
ATLAS DA AFRICA
GNL ZAMABA
BABALUKU
TSHILA THE AFRICAN QUEEN
YOUNG NICK
BABOON FOREST
BONSATULE
T-BRO
MON MC - NEW HOPE SQUAD
S4J
MC YALA
SAINT NELLY SADE
ABENGANDA
SAINT. CA
UGLY EMCEE
LADY SLYKE
JUNGEL THE MAN EATER
SHIP CREW
MC FLOWER
MC ROY
MC SHIP
BAVUBUKA ALLSTARZ
MC SPIDA
LUGA LUGA SQUAD
TALENT4LYFE (STONE CITY)
SAVIOUR BLACK REIGN

SPECIAL GUEST PERFORMANCE BY:
KWEEN G OF THE KILLA QUEENZ (SYDNEY AUSTRALIA)
DJ BATENGA THE MYTH - BATABAZI FAMILY (BOSTON)
DJ APEMAN ( UGANDA)

THE HIP HOP SUMMIT CYPHER (FOR ALL EMCEES)

THE HIP HOP SUMMIT SPOKEN TRUTH LOUNGE
SISTER IFE - POETRY IN CESSION
GILLY WILLY BON FIRE
SLIM EMCEE

ROCKING LIVE WITH THE FRESHEST BBOYS & BGIRLS
JERICHO BREAKERS
B BOY IMAM

GRAFFITI EXPRESSION: GRAFFITI UGANDA

OUTER SPACE FASHION: BY KAZ WEAR

MANY MORE PARTICIPANTS ARE STILL BEING CONFIRMED WE WILL KEEP UPDATING THE LIST AS WE COUNT DOWN TO THIS UGANDA HIP HOP CELEBRATION OF THE LONGEST RUNNING HIP HOP EVENT IN UGANDA.

WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO ALL THE FAN ARTISTS FAMILY AND FRIENDS OF THE HIP HOP COMMUNITY COMING OUT TO BUILD SO WE CAN GROW HIP HOP IN OUT COMMUNITIES IN UNITY.....

THE 8TH ANNUAL UGANDA HIP HOP SUMMIT

Hip Hop Summit Flyer 2010

The Uganda HipHop Foundation & Bavubuka Foundation, recognize the power of Hip-Hop music and culture to catalyze positive social change. Hip-Hop is modern youth’s cultural foundation, and symbolizes the ability of people living in marginalized communities to flourish and live their dreams. With the vision of creating a peace building platform that empowers and unifies young people from diverse communities, we continue to create ...a voice for the youth in Uganda.




The Hip Hop Summit has been an on-going event for the last seven years. The main aim of the summit is promote the hip hop culture in Uganda by empowering the youth and creating positive awareness through music and culture. The Hip Hop Summit is targeted to the youth crowd mainly students aged 18-25 years old. It features live performances by local and international Uganda’s top urban artists from the Hip Hop and R&B genres. The Hip Hop summit is not just about The Concert. During the day time there is a series forums and workshops that are carried out by Uganda's top Hip Hop icons and role models. The summit touches other areas of Hip Hop culture by featuring a DJ scratching demonstration, a B-Boy dance battle, a Graffiti art display, a Motivation speakers, and a Hip Hop Fashion Show.
Favorite Quotations There is a self Liberating truth in celebrating the indigenous in you.


FEATURED ARTISTES:


babaluku at the 7th summit

 Babaluku
Saba Saba
Xenson
Tshila
Maurice Kirya
New Hope Squad
Atlas "Da African"
Batabazi (Guest Artistes  from USA)
Navio & Klear Kut
T Bro
Ugly MC

Benon & Lady Twig Of Bavubuka Allstarz

Benon & Vampos
JT Minus
GNL & The Baboon Forest Ent.
The DPPI (Bonsatule)
Lady Slkye
Lady Twig
Yala MC
Keko
Don Mc
Sylvester & Abrams
Jungle "The Man eater"
Abenganda
Abatuuze
Abaana Beka
SP Omugunjule
Abenganda

MORE ARTISTES TO BE CONFIRMED...
FRESHEST B.BOYS & B.GIRLS
Jericho Breakers
Tabu Flo
Dance Together Uganda
STREET BALLERS UGANDA.
FAMOUS FREINDS ACROBATICS
GRAFFITTI BY XENSON...


HIP HOP FASHION
KAS WEAR - Bavubuka Fashion
Lattif Designs



Hip Hop Journalists
- Gilbert frank Daniels
- African webs
- Pied Magazine
- Hyper Magazine



If your interest in performing, showcasing your work, or supporting the event Contact Us at:
ughiphopsummit@gmail.com
256bavubuka@gmail.com
Gilbert Frank Daniels +256775961079
Burney MC 00256 782 147588

BAVUBUKA PHOTOGRAPHY CLASS

Thanks To Roshan Karmali for bringing her passion on the table and opportunities to the youth at bavubuka the workshop experience is always celebrated through the skills past on and the potraits we share......www.roshankarmali.blogspotcom.............

Words Beats & Life Representing Peace Building in Washington DC Through Arts

BAVUBUKA ALL STARS USING HIP HOP CULTURE TO CREATE A VOICE FOR YOUTH IN UGANDA +256

L-R: Graham Boyle, Baay Musa, Dumi Right, Stacy Willyard, and Magee McIlvaine.
Felicia Montgomery

20-, 30-, and even, 40-something Washingtonians kick off their weekends on Thursday night. V.O.I.C.E.S., a DC-based collective of friends focused on the intersection of hip-hop art, peace, and development in Africa, capitalized on Thursday night weekend fever to launch a series of fundraising events to raise awareness and donations for “overlooked” grassroots non-profits in Africa.

Thursday, November 12 the star of the show was the Bavubuka Foundation, pronounced ba-voo-boo-kah - a Luganda word for youth.

The Bavubuka Foundation is a nonprofit organization that connects youth with music and arts in hopes to transform their lives and unify communities. Members of Voices Organizing for International Change, Empowerment, and Support (V.O.I.C.E.S.) all have a special affinity and admiration for the Bavubuka Foundation, especially Magee McIlaine of Nomadic Wax and Stacy Willyard of the US Institute for Peace. Magee McIlvaine, a Canadian born filmmaker and hip-hop aficionado, has traveled extensively throughout Africa and has witness the power and influence of hip-hop in African youth. He aimed “to bring different worlds together” for the V.O.I.C.E.S. event series where art, music, political and cultural education converge in an entertaining and informal format.

Stacy Willyard is particularly passionate in her accolades for the Bavubuka Foundation. She’s visited the organization’s facilities in Uganda and is involved with its fundraising and development. She recounts the uniqueness of the organization as she shares it is currently supported by individual donors only. She hopes the organization will be in a place to accept institutional grants soon. In true generation-Y styled, people-to-people giving, she made sure to let event attendees know where their donations would be going, youth in Uganda. She recalls a young Ugandan woman’s hopes to be Betty Bigombe, a renowned mediator and scholar, when she grew up. A huge fan of Bigombe, Willyard is thrilled as she feels “the world could use more peacemakers”.

The event was a true multimedia experience; art lined the walls and floors at the Hillyer Art Space, a video showed background on the Foundation, Ugandan hip-hop, Magee spun on the 1s and 2s and Dumi Right hyped-up the audience and preformed.

V.O.I.C.E.S. takes pride in forming their collective and shinning light on organizations important to them. They feel like DC is the perfect location given its think tanks, US government and multilateral agencies, and NGOs to hosts these interactive events for the international development and policy communities. Their hope is that influential Washingtonians can learn about grassroots organizations in Africa that they might not have learned about otherwise and be inspired to support them.

V.O.I.C.E.S. plans to host these events the second Thursday of every month at the Hillyer Art Space, 9 Hillyer Court NW. On Thursday, December 10th, they will spotlight Magamba Project based in Harare, Zimbabwe, an organization trying to use arts and culture to achieve social justice and protect human rights.
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V.O.I.C.E.S. spotlight Bavubuka Foundation

OTHER RESOURCES 

Thanks to 

Felicia Montgomery

DC Charity Examiner

The Examiner

Website: http://www.examiner.com/x-26550-DC-Charity-Examiner

Twitter: http://twitter.com/4SocialGood

DaBet Music Signs Ugandan Artist Saba Saba

DaBet Music has signed a deal with the Ugandan hip-hop artist, singer/songwriter and human rights activist Saba Saba in which DaBet will provide exploitation and collection services. The agreement includes an option for future songs written and produced by Saba Saba.




According to the press release announcing the deal, Saba Saba, previously

known as Krazy Native, co-founded the Ugandan Hip Hop Foundation and was a founding member of the Ugandan hip hop group, Bataka Squad. DaBet Music was formed earlier this year by attorney Angela Rose White, the daughter of the late songwriter David Rose and the COO of the David Rose Publishing Co.



In other moves, DaBet also signed to provide administration and publishing services to Irish singer/songwriter Paul Casey, who has had three of his songs featured on the ABC Family Network television series, “Wildfire.”



The company has also signed an agreement to provide publishing services to singer/songwriter Benjamin for his song “If You're Fly.” The agreement

includes an option for future songs written and produced by Benjamin. In

addition to Benjamin, DaBet Music is already administering interests in

songs performed by such artists as The Platters, Ike & Tina Turner, Count Basie, Little Richard, Cher, Cass Elliot, Donny and Marie Osmond, and Dinah Shore.

A Poem about Tupac by J. Hilton

Only God Can Judge 2pac...
Black man, Black boy, Prince, Thug,
Revolutionary, Symbol. They only see your
tattoos, jewelry, and body language. They only
hear your vulgar words, defiant messages, and
your unavoidable controversy. They see your life
as a threat, they comment chickens came home
to roost They blame you for violence in
America, they pour disgust on you and point the
finger at you for problems in our families.
Black man, Black boy, Prince, Thug,
Revolutionary, Symbol. We see you as the dark
truth they are scared to accept. We see you as the
voice we sometimes could not find. We see you
as a young Malcolm X. Alcohol, drugs, women
and prison consumed you, as it did Brother
Malcolm. Yet those that knew you, knew you
were on the way out, you had seen the light and
moved toward it. We felt your pain, so similar to
ours. We felt your frustration, so similar to ours.
We felt your anger, so similar to ours. You are an
unavoidable realness. To Generation X, as they
describe it, you are a 1996 Elvis, John Lennon,
Jimi Hendricks, Sammy Davis, Ella Fitzgerald.
Those that don't know, may never know. Those
that do know, truly know that... Only God Can
Judge You!www.africa256.wordpress.com

Till Blogger, Facebook, twitter &word press blogs do us part !!!!

From wordpress, blogger, opera to face­book, twitter, hi5, tagged, kiwi box and the rest, social networks and blogs are the new buzz word in cyberspace.
Anyone and everyone who uses the internet knows about the concept of social networking and blogging. Be it young or old, they are all facebooking a. k. a facing the book and blogging away. But it is we the teenagers who have the briskness to use this new virtual platform to its maxi­mum potential. All it requires is being on the net, type in the website, click sign up, and in no time, you will be starting, absolutely free. People are facebooking like crazy. The blog freaks have signed up with networks like www.blogger.com, posted their articles or what­ever stuff they want the world to read and they are getting read by everyone.

Having grown up using the computer and internet as a source of information, youngsters in this generation are at ease when conveying their opinions on the blog­sites, or feelings and thoughts on the social network. The use of various platforms of communication comes naturally, to all teenagers, unlike old writers who at times experience moments of stagnation.

My pal, Adonia has managed to become a prolific writer, thanks to his blogsites, “the feeling of being read and appreciated by strangers was and is still very inspiring,” he says.

The rapid emergence of blogging and social networks can be attributed to the un­equaled characteristic of the platforms, which allow teens to acquire a sense of satisfac­tion as a result of expressing themselves, while remaining anonymous if they want to as is the case with blogs where teens create their own blog­ging space and invite friends and strangers to join.
This allows for the much needed attention that every teen craves but the only nightmare for these teens is if the parent chances upon his or her blogsite.

Although teenagers can write with great proficiency on the blogsites, they have very little experience writing beyond the internet. This is because publishers of maga­zines and newspapers are not helping teens in anyway; probably this is even throt­tling a major talent, which is meant to be emerging. Brian gave up with trying to write because “man I sent mob articles to that newspaper but none of them was published.” Well, that changed with The New Vision TEENZ. Teenagers who previously kept their articles buried in the crowded and vast cyber space are sending them for publication.

Social networking has found acceptability because to Edgar, “I have made friends with people I hardly knew on facebook.”

Social networking has found acceptability among the youth because it is where they can express themselves freely while blogging has found acceptability because here the youth can show­case their writing skills and creativity because there is no restraining arm of the publisher.

The large reach of this new-age discovery grants teens the ability of using their technical skills to acquire attention, as is on facebook, or gain readership for their writing, as is the case with blogsites.

JERICHO BREAKERS

At the beginning they had no uniforms at all, nothing like fancy clothes such groups normally wear. They had passion, were ambitious and enduring, that's all they needed. After hard training for months they managed to win the 2nd prize in a competition of Praise Dancers of the whole country. Some of their performances you see at the pictures below - you can also recognize how much fun is involved in their dancing, they not only dance well; they also transfer their joy and fun unto the viewer. Often they just dance for fun in midst of our Sanyu-Kids.
We are very proud of our young people and try to render help to them as much as possible. They are faithful people who help in running our project. All of them have the potential to change their generation for the better.

 http://www.bethelafrica.org/jerichobreakers. 
http://www.bavubuka.com
www.africa256.wordpress.com

TEENS BUZ LEAVERS ROCK

Kampala — PORTRAYING all sorts fashion statements, over 1,000 Kampala holiday-makers from different schools around the country thronged Lugogo Indoor Stadium on Saturday for the Buzz Leavers' Rock.
The teenagers had been let off the hook. They had 'thank God it's holiday' written all over their faces.
You would think their headteachers had decreed before sending them home that each attends the do, initiated by Buzz Magazine, an urbanite weekly.

 

Having had a week to prepare for the event that has become the in-thing for students coming back home, the high school leavers and other holiday-makers outdid themselves to look their best.

Most of the boys sported 'cargo' pants, thick-soled heavy boots, dark sunglasses that they wore even with no sunshine from the sky, Big 50-Cent-labelled T-shirts and caps and too much perfume.
You would think some of them had sprayed Kerosene. They also had 'cool' phones that they used to take pictures of the artistes. And the girls - too - much makeup, stylish jeans and quarter pants, leggings, basic phones and tank tops.

 

In a nutshell, it was a mixture of trendy and outdated style in a typical fun-fledged high school dance that had them screaming to DJ Shiru's music mix. It is just as well that alcohol was not allowed.

They had a constant flow of free Fanta Berry, which helped them refresh amidst their dancing competitions to win utl and Fanta goodies like caps, T-shirts, iPods, SIM cards and airtime.
The do kicked off in a low key at 10:00am, but by 3:00pm, the indoor stadium was chocking with students beaming with excitement to local artistes' performances.

Bavubuka Allstars Michael Ross, Lyrical G and Klear Kut's The Mith were the opening acts that put the teens in a groovy mood.
And when Kenya's jewellery-donned CMB Prezo stepped forth, the stadium thudded with ululations. Many crowded the stage to take his picture as he rapped.
Peter Miles, Menshan and Bebe Cool also had their share of the crowds that screamed, sang and jumped along to the artistes' athletic dance moves before opening the dance that went up 7:00pm.
After a day of fun, the students booed emcee Kats when he announced that they were closing.
The music stopped, but some refused to leave, hanging around for about another hour, while others rushed to take their parents' cars back home.

HIP HOP SAVES LIVES

HIP HOP SAVES LIVES is a entertainment company dedicated to educating and elevating the global hip hop community. Our primary focus is our philanthropic purpose which is to bring clean and safe drinking water to African countries, with a focus on the country of Chad and the Sudanese refugees. We fund sustainable water solutions for some of the world's poorest people. We are here to inspire the world of hip hop to take responsibility for local, national and global issues. Our motto is "we don't talk about it, we be about it".

GOD has given me a gift by placing the responsibility of "HIP HOP SAVES LIVES" on my heart. I currently live in new york city, but like to say that I am a citizen of the world. Living in NYC has exposed me to people and their way of life from all across the globe. These same people have given my career as a hip hop artist and producer much love and shown me that many if not all nation have a love for this artform. This lead me to title the artist in me F.A.M. which means (for all mankind). I challenge myself when writing songs to speak to the world and not a demographic. We are all people of the same planet. That's the way I chose to look at the world. Yes I am an American, a New yorker, I was born and raised in Cleveland,Ohio, who went to Shaker Hts, high school, so I'm a shaker raider and a Morehouse man from my college years and the list goes on and on and on. Before all of those titles I am a human being, as we all are. All other subtitles describe our journey in life, but not who we are. This organization "Hip Hop Saves LIves" is here to take this message across the globe. "That we are all from the same planet". Those simple words go a long way. If we think of this first when we think of people it makes it much easier to care for one another. Hip hop at the core is a simple artfrom. A beat and a rhyme, Anyone can do it and that's whaT so many are involved. Once again something simple has gone a very long way. All are welcome. come join us in our journey to spread this simple message through a simple art form that has the whole world watching and the whole world performing.www.africa256.wordpress.com

CAN HIP HOP CHANGE IN AFRICA

Across Africa, Hip Hop is helping to change and recreate the culture and lives of youth, as it introduces new means of communication, education, empowerment, activism, and entertainment.

Youth from the townships of South Africa to the suburbs of Paris are using hip hop music as a tool to assert themselves in their societies. Hip Hop in Africa has evolved into an agent for social change, and as a platform for youth to express themselves. African Hip-hop artists are daring to imagine a better future and challenging the status quo using Hip-hop to give voice to their dreams. Rhyming about pressing social ills— civil wars, HIV/AIDS, child labor, child soldiers, discrimination, corruption—ills that threaten the very fabric of their society. In Africa, Hip-hop is a tour de force that delivers hope, providing youth with alternative spaces and venues to be creative, voice their opinions educate and empower one another.
The African Hip Hop Project works to further the efforts of several African Hip Hop artists who use the tools of popular culture to empower African youth.