Rapper Muki Garang’s collaboration album featuring a group of African artistes was given out as a souvenir at the African National Congress where they will be marking 100 years since the liberation struggle. The album recorded in South Africa dubbed A Dollar A Day, is “about what we found to be the common ground as artists from different part of Africa. Such as love, HIV and Aids, xenophobia, civil strife and poverty,” Muki said.
Asked what he thought about it being a souvenir item given out during the African National Congress Centenary celebrations, the rapper said, “Really, I am not surprised, I had anticipated that my insight would at one time be embraced by like-minded individual and or organisations. “I have stuck to my principles since 2002, when I got in the Kenyan entertainment industry as a rapper. Over the course of 10 years I have travelled a lot (South East Asia and Africa) in the process learning about different societies, cultures and the impact of politics in the socio-economic aspects of their lives.
He continued: “I applied this knowledge not only through rap but also involving myself in community work with organisations such as The Carolina for Kibera, Kenya copyright Board, Sarakasi trust and Nairobi centre for film and performing arts , and other arms of the civil society. So it’s the culmination of a work in progress that took a decade.”
