Hello or bite se to all my fellow Kigalians and all the black music fans residing in Kigali and beyond. It’s the month of May, the Transform Africa summit has come to pass and the city is abuzz with activity.
We had a fashion show in recent weeks and much more is to come. Kigali is in for some exciting times ahead.
The city is currently hosting an exhibition on black music and it is running a full 3.5 months from Friday May 12- August 25, 2017 at the national library (kpl) open on from Monday to Friday 8am-8pm.
This great initiative that’s taking the city by storm is schooling the citizens on the history of black music in the absence of music schools since this multimedia and interactive exhibition is a thematic journey through geography and history.
This is most welcome at a time when there’s an implosion of mediocre music all over the Radio and TV channels.
We are literally fed garbage in terms of current trends in contemporary music waves.
This is a welcome break for many enthusiasts in this musical genre. Our local artists need this expose the most, in the absence of role models since they are the biggest culprits in flooding the market with this phenomenon of cheap techno sounds and naijja beats unlike their predecessors who were focused and instrumental.
Visitors upon entrance are given an android smart guide along with hifi headphones, which they use to interact with all the exhibition installations and even create an online playlist.
The initiators of this event are (RAI) or the Rwanda arts initiative in partnership with a Belgian organization called Africalia.
These two organizations are truly dedicated to redefining the Kigali cultural landscape in the absence of cultural infrastructure such as theatres and the like according to the Africalia director Frederic Jacquemine “this is what Africalia has been trying to accomplish since its inception”
Africalias motto is:
- Creativity is life and the economy of the future,
- creativity inspires collaboration and action
- Lastly creativity multiplies.
This knowledge can have a big impact and spur growth in the local creative industry. We hope this event nurtures the need for archiving our culture.
Quoting (RAI) or the Rwanda arts initiatives director Dorcy Rugamba, “Kigali is becoming more and more a crossroads of the world.”
And he wishes us a wonderful summer in music, oh yes we are headed for the summer (dry) season too, I almost forgot.
