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Kenyan Youth for HIphop in 2012.flv mukigarang1 146 views visit maishayetu.wordpress.com African youth need to be involved in a constructive discourse that promotes unity and national cohesion using popular and available tool. On...
maisha yetu-jukwaani festival mukigarang1 101 views
Muki Garang Reads News on People's TV 101 mukigarang1 113 views Muki Garang plays a news anchor reading news based on a theme of what affects women in Kenya
maisha yetu Jukwaani song mukigarang1 77 views
Strains on gender roles in Kenya mukigarang1 52 views Maisha Yetu Poet's perfomance at the Annual Jukwaani festiva September 19th 2010. The theme of the production was 'Strains on gender roles'
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Akon on Kenyan MTV MAMA RED CARPET mukigarang1 6,988 views Akon arries at the red carpet minutes before MTV MAMA awards commencement
Race & Ethnic relations in Africa (Visit contentflowswagger.blogspot.com) mukigarang1 186 views A poem on race and its effects in Africa feat. Tetu Totuma
African Ritual live -Village healer divines griot mukigarang1 614 views visit maishayetu.wordpress.com Muki Garang merges Spoken word and African folklore
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About Muki Garang L'Artiste

An insight into African Music and other global genres with a splash of the alternative.

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Nov 1, 2011

Date Joined

Jul 30, 2007

About this user

I consider my commitment to the Kenyan art scene to be one that utilizes the power of entertainment, in providing education on different key issues affecting Kenyan population.

Over the past two years I have conducted interviews at The Hampshire College addressing various topics on East African Hiphop, including the historical context, the role of popular culture as a mode of expression and tool for public education and the possibilities of using the avenue to address various community needs.

More importantly my work utilizes music as a tool for community empowerment and is now noted worldwide. This is captured in Prof. Mwenda Ntaragwis book titled "East African Hiphop: Youth, culture and globolization".

In my tenure as an activist, i have engaged in a number of socially conscious projects, collaborating with institutions such as the Sarakasi Trust, French cultural cent re, German cultural institute and the British council.

More than being a poet and Hiphop artist I am the co-founder of Words and Pictures (WAPI) - an acclaimed youth arts project in Nairobi which serves as a monthly platform for upcoming artists (for which i was nominated for the British Council's International Youth Entrepreneur of the Year award in 2006).

I convened a project called 'Hip Hop Parliament' in the midst of the post-election violence 2007/2008 in Kenya, as a means to engage Nairobi's youth in positive dialogue across ethnic lines. In addition I am the founder of Maisha Yetu -- a non-profit arts organization for youth, and I also worked at Ghetto Radio 89.5fm as an editor for their online journal www.ghettoradio.nl .

The performance spaces I have created highlight on Africa's plight of Aids, Poverty, unemployment and war. Activities carried out in these forums mitigate on negative ethnicity and uses popular culture to enhance collaboration and involvement in community work amongst Kenya's youth, as we look ahead to the 2012 Kenya elections