A Dollar a day -Pan African Hiphop music for 2012

31 January 2012

This musical project A dollar a day, was birthed in the heart of Maftown the same exact space for the Northwest Hiphop movement Lefoko. The music is in an array of languages, ranging from Sheng(Nairobi slang), Swahili, Zulu, Setswana, Pidgin,Motswako (Setstwana slang) and English.

“We are reaching out to our peers in Africa, using the spoken word and Hiphop music,” says the South African Lerato Mosimane, one of the event organizers.

Here is a sample

Download	Name	Play	Length
	Blueman (Ngozi Chukura Produced by MM3rd)		4:36 min
	Source capital (Relevant source Produced by MM3rd)		2:45 min

Some of the poetry by the sisters pay tribute to heroines like Prof Wangari Maathai, Miriam Makeba and Graca Machel amongst others.

Dubbed A Dollar a Day, the recording included audio interviews with policy makers and stakeholders in the Northwest province
of the post-apartheid nation on the use of culture to foster responsible leadership, fight against the spread of HIV, and include youth in political decision-making.

Participants included South Africa’s; Mpho ya Badimo(SABC's Motsweding fm), Lerato Mosimane(Formerly of Bop TV - Jo'Burg),
Apu, TLS, and Relevant Source (Lefoko movement N.west); Botswana's; Mpaphi Angell Nthoi and Ngozi Chukura; Nigeria’s Omadada, Kenya’s Akili Blaq and myself a reporter and a participant, having travelled south 6000 miles by road to the event,
through Dar es Salaam, Lusaka,Gaborone,Mahikeng and Johannesburg .

Here is the tracklist

The exchange program meeting was organized by both Maisha yetu (maishayetu.wordpress.com)-