Accountability Lab Liberia Awards Winners of the Voice2Rep Coronavirus Music Competition

Monrovia – Accountability Lab Liberia has awarded Hellen Smith, an emerging gospel musical artist, as the winner of this year Rap2Rep musical campaign – a special feature that places high emphasis on coronavirus awareness message.

Rap2Rep is a musical campaign program organized by the Accountability Lab Liberia that began 2015. It is a campaign that gives local artists an opportunity to use music as a tool for social change.

The campaign has built an accountability of Hipco (Liberian style of music) network that includes musician of social and conscious music, who are passionate about using their voices to advocate for the change they hope to see in Liberia.

Over the past five years, musicians in the Rap2Rep campaign have been able to use their powerful voices to address issues of corruption, civil engagement, voting rights and responsibilities, youths and women empowerment and national political leadership, electoral reform, and issues of social development and welfare.

But this year campaign styled Rep2Rep coronavirus music campaign, which is sponsored by the United States Embassy, places high emphasis on awareness against the novel Coronavirus and how to spread information to communities about preventing COVID-19.

Speaking at iCampus on Carey Street at weekend, Robert Tanookpuwah, the Educational and Cultural Affairs Assistant of the Public Affair Section at the US Embassy, lauded the creativity of Liberians artists – both established and emerging artists.

 

Article originally published by FrontPage Africa