Using Music as a tool for Social Change in Liberia
MONROVIA — Young people from across Buchanan City, Grand Bassa County, and Fiamah Community- Monrovia, Montserrado County, gathered separately in their numbers on the 24th and 30th of December 2021, to participate and witness two separate musical concerts funded by ‘Music in Africa’, and organized by Accountability Lab Liberia Voice2Rept Campaign, with performances from 16 local artists from the Liberian Hip-Co Accountability Network.
‘Voice to Represent’ (Voice2Rep) is Accountability Lab’s pioneering and reformative musical campaign and advocacy platform that promotes issues around integrity, accountability and good governance through the lenses of a more equal participation and greater representation across Liberia. Its goal is for young and undiscovered artists to build their knowledge, skills and get the connections they need to improve their music and use it to advocate for social change. Hip-Co Accountability Network on the other hand is a group on young national artists (male and female) who consider themselves ‘conscious musicians’, using a mixture of ‘hip-hop’ music and the Liberian ‘koloqua’ (pidgin) to preach about a wide range of social issues, including; equality, opportunities for youth, including participation.
Article originally published by Front Page Africa
