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If you’re a kid roughing it in Nairobi’s notorious slums one would think that the topic of climate change isn’t top of mind; falling somewhere behind personal safety, food and shelter. Not so for the sixteen kids, predominantly from the slums of Eastern Nairobi, who have formed the hip hop act “Wafalme” (which means “kings” in Swahili). This collective, now well known to youth via Kenyan radio, has taken what was originally a community art education project about climate change, to heights they could not have imagined when they started the project back in 2008.
Their original song (composed primarily by project leader Lillian Tende) and accompanying video, “Trash is Cash” has become a bit of a mini-phenomena of late with nods, and plays, from a number of MTV stations around the world, international press coverage and, the icing on the cake, being invited to accept an award for their social and environmental leadership as part of the upcoming World Energy Summit in Copenhagen.
Checkout the video for Trash is Cash” on Youtube.
Trash is Cash, written by Lilian Tende, who will be coming to Copenhagen to accept the award on behalf of the group, is the most recent song performed by Wafalme. The core idea behind this song is to highlight the problems that climate change is causing in people’s daily lives. Acute water shortages and a lack of renewable energy sources make life hard across Kenya.
“When we sit back and consider the significant events in the past, the important aspects of our current life, and our future goals, we realize that the underlying theme is not only education (personal and environmental), but also appreciating diversity, especially across ethnic and socio-economic class lines.” Lilian Tende, Wafalme
(via Earth Journalism Awards )
If you’re a kid roughing it in Nairobi’s notorious slums one would think that the topic of climate change isn’t top of mind; falling somewhere behind personal safety, food and shelter. Not so for the sixteen kids, predominantly from the slums of Eastern Nairobi, who (more)
