Rapping for Change
Hip hop artists in Uganda are using rap music and poetry to reach out to the youth. They meet at the Baboon Forest Entertainment, a multimedia production house, where each gets a chance to tell their story. The songs address the issue of drug abuse and raise awareness of HIV/AIDS.
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00:00 [Music]
00:16 Our purpose as Baboon Forest, we believe, is to share the knowledge and knowledge is power.
00:21 So if we are to empower a community and empower a generation of people,
00:25 it is going to be through the stories, through their tradition.
00:28 And we are recreating those links of where we could have been disconnected.
00:33 [Music]
00:38 My name is Joy, the seventh star, and I am for women empowerment.
00:42 I'm reaching out to all the ladies out there that believe in entrepreneurship,
00:47 believe in hard work, believe in talents, the mothers, to come together
00:52 so that we don't become passive observers in the economic sector.
00:58 If there is anything to do, get on your feet and do it,
01:01 even if it starts with a little capital, never know it might pick up and you support yourself in a way.
01:07 [Music]
01:11 Good.
01:11 [BLANK_AUDIO]