 another exciting segment of the interview right here in Tano Kali now I have a very interesting artist let me tell you they breathe culture they breathe art from everything they wear from how you know let me not give too much into it his name is swagger dawn hi do all my clothes myself all my fashion portrays Africa my fabrics I design my fabrics my outfits my shoes and of course my paint yeah producer producing my music and co-producing with other producers in videos I direct my videos I also are the creative director I go to areas that is Kenya Tanzania South Africa Niger wherever I am always there the most after in its truest content I'm originally from trainer but I will say I'm a African Caribbean and I'm an African in all its ramifications I lived in the UK for some time and then I moved to Nigeria I live in Nigeria and now I also live in Kenya I'm looking forward to spending a lot of time here getting to know the country I've been doing collaborations with Kenyan artists like Prezzo Raffa Rare you know and also I'm collaborating with others in South Africa Melody and others so what I'm doing is creating a genre between soka reggae plus you know young atone I'm a piano Afrobeat it's all part of putting the African culture on the road map the religiosity everything African that's me I'm the spirit of Africa the important thing is you show African culture in its true form many people have a watered down promotion of Africa why because we're bringing other people's culture you know for example some of the things we don't do as Africans we are kings and queens we don't walk around you know half naked with our bottoms out and those are cultures that are adopted from the West the African culture we walk proud we have our passion we have the way we talk we have musical we are creative we don't need to behave as though we are from the government you know and a lot of artists unfortunately portray you know the adopted genres of music from outside and most of those who are outside do not portray Africans as they should portray it's very negative but my role as an African is in all that I'm doing and all that I'm saying and all I'm you know musically implying is let's promote African is true culture it's true for my cinema photographers must have you know some sort of affinity to pan-Africanism the way they shoot you know in the way they are also musical they are creative people and they're not just gonna do for example a video go and shoot it and show negative things I take control and make sure that those who I work with share the same affinity my dancers must also you know want to dance you know African steps show Africa in its culture cultural form because a lot of our African people have natural dances that we must promote why why is it some of the dancers from Uganda and Tanzania are so famous all over that is because they're dancing they're using dance steps from their culture I went into the studio and started recording and I started recording I already had in mind what I had to do in terms of making sure that I package myself in a pan-African way I have made sure that the music I'm doing you know forces all the borders and all the genres from the Caribbean to Africa because whether it was African Americans who created jazz and blues you know and so Africans in the Caribbean created reggae super zoo you know and we are all musical music is carrying messages and some of those messages are subliminal and if you carry the right positive message you will influence in the right positive way but if you carry negative messages you will also influence in the negative way so my rule is to promote subliminal positive messages for our youth for our people you know think back what is ours we have our whole spirituality the um Egypt the the Ethiopian cross Ethiopia all those we have to get back as part of our culture and part of our music because we have music which has vibration you know we have music which has vibration and those vibrations are energy it's enough positivity positive music so we embrace those things and get those as part of our culture reinstated in whatever we do musical creativity you know however we walk talk we are musical even the way we walk in the world we talk you talk to the group it's beautiful tones it's musical the Africans speak and walk and talk musical we do because we are part of the rhythm of the you know we are definitely written people and creating uh look out times for uh white two five four yeah look out for uh which is a uh a Swahili version of uh uh one of my uh tracks of a la la exclusively you have the lyrical video of a new swagger right also exclusively uh you have carpenter you have African function you have lorraine which i produced and also uh i did the video in Mombasa so i'm promoting Kenya i think the ministry of tourism should have a look at that and uh let's grind together and partner together to promote Kenya because i am now a Kenyan artist with the uh will be the collaborations i'm doing yeah yeah can go straight to the youtube and see the uh various videos and songs and um we are uh swagger on facebook um just look at swagger on this type swagger but it's spelled s-w-a-g-g-a-d-o-l there it is swagger dog and it's in all the social media platforms and look it up and uh let's uh white two five four the music