A Rwandan musician Chaka has launched a campaign to unite ethnic groups that have suffered in the region’s conflicts.
Despite the minimal support from friends, Chaka insists he won’t give up but use his music to spread the message of peace.
Currently he is on tour in Burundi conducting performances in areas that have previously experienced ethnic clashes. “Residents in such areas need to be convinced on the importance of forgiveness in order to avoid the occurrence of similar wars,” he said.
Chaka wants to produce songs in various languages to attract a wider listenership. “The majority would understand my message better if I sang in their respective native languages.”
In this respect, he’s negotiating with artists in areas that have been engulfed in conflicts to jointly produce songs especially in languages including; Swahili, Luganda, Runyankole, Iingala and others like Spanish, Arabic, Korean and Chinese to spread the message to the wider world.
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