Rhyme, rap and development work
Money, flexing and girls... This is the song of one of the young people from Aarhus who participated in a workshop programme on development work and rap. During the programme, they also talked about the Sustainable Development Goals, girls' rights in Ghana and prison conditions in Zambia.
Together with the Ubumi Prisons Initiative we have a desire to engage the youth of Aarhus in development work and the UN’s Global Goals. Based on a series of creative productions created by young people in Zambia, Ghana and Kenya. The participants of the workshop course will spit rhymes on the themes ‘Being on the edge of society’, ‘Stigmatization and discrimination’ and ‘Lack of a voice’.
As an example, the photo book and exercise leaflet Position, where pictures and stories tell about street children in Ghana, about life on the edge of society, about society's attitudes towards street children and about giving young people on the street a voice.
The themes are selected based on both the local and global issues that we and Ubumi work with. These includes poverty, high unemployment among young people, poor educational opportunities, and gender inequality, all of which relate to several of the UN's World Goals.
During the workshop, the young people in Aarhus were introduced to specific rap tools such as rhyme and flow, and also learnt to incorporate poetry slam and storytelling as a creative way to express themselves. Here they have Rapolitics brought their expert coaches and storytellers to the table.
The project is financed by the engagement funding under CISU - Civil Society in Development.
Workshop guide and material
The workshop programme that young people from three residential areas in Aarhus participated in and which aimed to engage them in development work, the SDGs and creative activism has now been compiled in a workshop guide so that others can be inspired by the methods and exercises used in the project. It is also possible to find the creative materials that have been used in the different workshop sessions. You can find it all below.
Cases
Bernice
Amadi
Gaza
Innocent
Meet the young people from Zambia and Ghana
Muhammad
Mohammed is 22 years old and comes from the northern part of Ghana. She is a REEP ambassador and fights for girls' right to education.
Gomez
Creative activism from the South
