Juliani represents the Kingdom with Ciiru. Check out Julaini's video for Mtaa Mentality featuring Ciiru. The video also contains the lyrics in it! So witness as juliani breaks down the Mtaa Mentality for you. Mtaa Mentality is the 2nd single by Juliani (Formely of Uko Flani Mau Mau). Produced By David "BlackMan" Muthami this song talks about leaving the ignorance mentality and shifting to the hope FULL mentality that is available in Christ.
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Kenyan Gospel artists speak on violence. Amidst the recent violence and political crisis that has hit Kenya, members of the Gospel fraternity in Kenya have made calls for peace and unity. It is good to see the Gospel community who have considerable influence on their listeners call for Kenyans to unite and for the violence to stop. I would like to take this oppurtunity to encourage them to continue on this path, so that Kenya may come out of this sad state stronger and with more faith in God. Rufftone: "We have reached a place where we need to forgo our tribal backgrounds and forget where people are from. We need to value our I.D cards – all they say is Kenyan. That's all that matters. Not tribe, not status – just Kenyan. Its amazing how the international media is desperately trying to portray only the worst part of the clashes. It's like they were on standby to tear us down. That just shows how the success of this country is being envied by outsiders, and we must work har
Website developed to report acts of violence in Kenya. A website has been developed by Kenyans to report acts of violence in Kenya resulting from the elections held last year. Visit the website at www.ushahidi.com . Kudos to all the people involved in creating this invaluable recourse to help document what's going on in Kenya. Report Acts Of Violence In Kenya And listen to an interview BBC did with Ushahidi.com's creators here . Mama Mikes have created a way to send donations to those facing hardship in Kenya resulting from the violence. Check it out here and please help your brothers and sisters back home in any way you can. Check out pictures from Mama Mike's visit to the Jamhuri Show Grounds(a camp for internally displaced persons) here . More pictures of the violence from Insight Kenya here . (warning: graphic)
Watch the "Wakenya Pamoja" video. Dozens of Gospel artistes have united in a bid to reach out to the country and solicit for peace. Under the name "Wakenya Pamoja", they have released a single calling for love, peace and unity among Kenyans. The song was written by Robert "R-Kay" Kamanzi and recorded at his studio (Shammah Boy Studios). The music video was shot by Sakata Music and features among others Pete Odera, Rufftone, SK Blue, Mbuvi, Po-Q-pine, Michelle, Sheila, Rossie Ohon, Juliani, Lena (ZYM), Kilosh among others. The artistes are also visiting slums and other volatile areas of the country spearheaded by SK Blue, Wangechi Mbogo, Liz, Cand y and Susan Kamanzi among others. Mombasa Gospel artistes are also adding their voice and have released a single titled "Tuungane Kwa Pamoja". Award winning group SPAN Sita Bantu, Kimsa, Scarvage, DJ Lenium, Simaloi & Krystin Ndela) , Award winning Nyota Ndogo, Lady Hekma and sensational vocali
Ngugi wa Thiong'o on Kenya Electoral Violence Ngugi laments Kenya violence Renowned Kenyan novelist and playwright Ngugi wa Thiong'o tellls BBC World Update his views on the unrest that has engulfed Kenya since last month's disputed elections. Writers must sometimes feel like the Greek prophetess Cassandra, gifted to see the future but fated not to be believed. What is unfolding in Kenya could as well have been lifted from my novel Wizard of the Crow where the ruling party and the opposition parities engaged in Western-sponsored democracy become mirror images of one another in their absurdity and indifference to the poor. The picture of men and women burnt down in a church where they had gone for refuge still haunts my mind. A child running away from the fire was caught and hurled back into the flames. One of the few survivors was quoted as saying: "But they knew me; we were neighbours. I thought Peter was a friend - a good neighbour. How could Peter do this to me?&quo
Tavis Smiley interviews Ngugi wa Thiong'o Ngugi wa Thiong'o original airdate December 12, 2007 Writer Ngugi wa Thiong'o is one of East Africa's leading novelists. His books have been translated into more than 30 languages, and his Weep Not Child was the first major novel in English by an East African. His writings on corruption in his native Kenya led to his ‘77 imprisonment. Upon release, he was barred from college/university positions and went into exile. He's taught at several institutions and is currently a professor at UC Irvine (CA). Wizard of the Crow is his first novel in nearly two decades. Listen here .
Wakenya Pamoja Press Statement :: Below is a transcript of the Press Release issued by Wakenya Pamoja on the 2nd of January 2007. "We as the gospel music fraternity of Kenya hereby want to acknowledge and celebrate the involvement of Kenyans in the 2007 general elections to which they turned out in large numbers to portray their love for Kenya . Non-the less we would also want to address our present situation as a nation. "We are hereby calling for calm and a cease to any violence whatsoever. We therefore appeal to our audience across the country to exercise restraint and to exhibit unity and love by taking the responsibility of being our brother's keeper. - To the youth we want to warn them against inciters who compel them to indulge into looting, destruction of property and violence. Our message to the youth countrywide is this: “We are the future of Kenya only if we are united not divided” -To the religious leaders on the ground , this is the time to preach peace calm
Download "Kijiji Peace" single for free! Download the song " Kijiji Peace " produced by Gospel artists Aaron Rimbui and Kanjii Mbugua that calls for peace at our Coastal area. Download the single here . Other artists like SPAN Sita (Bantu, Kimsa, Scarvage, DJ Lenium, Simaloi & Krysti Ndela ), Award Winner Nyota Ndogo, Lady Hekma andvocalist Fayu came together to form PWANI PAMOJA and put their tribal differences aside to do the song. Download " Wakenya Pamoja" here .
Wakenya "Keep Hope Alive " Concert. Wakenya Pamoja is a collaboration of Kenyan Gospel Artists who have come together in the wake of the crisis that has engulfed our nation in the recent past to pursue several initiatives for peace and reconciliation. One of these initiatives is the ‘Wakenya Pamoja: Keeping Hope Alive’ concert, an event which brings together many of the industry’s top performing and recording artists, Gospel and otherwise, in a show of unity and a call for peace and reconciliation. This concert will use music to focus people on peace and reconciliation. Entry to the event will be gained through a donation of dry foods (a packet of flour, sugar, rice, beans, green grams etc), blankets, clothes or shoes and so on. These items will be used in the humanitarian effort to help those displaced or adversely affected during this period. The event will feature artists such as Esther Wahome, Rufftone, Jemimah Thiongo, Suzanna Owiyo, Abbi, SK Blue, Zaidi Ya Mziki, Pete O
Kenya death toll still climbing. Just when most Kenyans thought things may have calmed down a bit after the violence flare-ups last week, we start the new week with disturbing reports about a new surge in the post-electoral death toll. According to Reuters and BBC the latest death toll is about 486, about 100 more than has been previously reported. This new information was from a government humanitarian services committee.Other reports put the new deaths at between 100-200, which could mean the real death toll might be approaching the 550-600 mark. This now seems to be degenerating to an Iraq-situation with daily death tolls being reported. From what I have heard, this new surge may be from retaliatory attacks from Mungiki gangs.(But this is unconfirmed, and the surge could be unaccounted for deaths) I cannot speak for the victims of the violence, but all I know is that retaliatory attacks can only start a new unprecedented cycle of violence which may eclipse any previously seen in
SAVE OUR COUNTRY - GOSPEL ARTISTES UNITED NAIROBI - 03 Jan 2008 : Kenyan Gospel artistes are adding their voice to the current unrest being experienced in Kenya following disputed election results and claims of vote rigging. Several artistes have come together and recorded a song as they make their appeal for unity and a stop to the violence. Some of the artistes include multi-award winning producer Robert "R-Kay" Kamanzi, Pete Odera, Rufftone, Esther Wahome, SK Blue, Po-Q-pine and reggae artiste Admiral Kilosh among others. This is reminiscent of the 1998 embassy bombing in Nairobi where gospel artistes came together and recorded a song called "Pamoja as One" and held concerts to promote unity of the Kenyan people. (Report courtesy: www.kenyangospel.com)
WE WANT PEACE IN OUR LAND NOW! We do not want to hear any more political grand-standing by either side, we do not want to hear the blame game on who has done wrong, we do not want the finger pointing on who is causing the violence, we do not want to hear pre-conditions to meeting, we do not want to hear about who is trying to "cleanse" who. All Kenyans want right now is for these people, our so-called leaders to put their ego's aside and stop the violence that is destroying our nation right now! What is the use of leadership if it cannot be used to bring Kenyans to not turn on one another? You can only influence people to attend your political meetings but you ca't influence them to stop the violence? No more blame games, no more finger pointing. We only want to hear the calls for peace now! Your political victories are not worth the blood of innocent men, women and children. Leaders; come together, reconcile or you should all step down for you would have failed i