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As a younger man rising up within the slums of Dandora, Kenya, Julius Owino had an curiosity in poetry and music. Being a teenager attempting to determine who he was and what he stood for. He had two choices, observe a lifetime of crime or degree up and develop into a greater particular person. He selected the latter.
"The extra I did the music half, the extra I found out learn how to perceive my feelings, perceive who I'm, perceive my setting, be observant of my setting and be observant of the world," Juliani tells Scenes.
His rapping fashion caught the eye of the Mau Mau Camp, who're thought-about the royalty of Kenyan Hip-hop. They began to make music collectively, which propelled him into stardom, assembly the Wu-Tang Clan and DMX, two hip-hop heavyweights.
Juliani simply launched his fourth album, known as "Masterpiece". His albums Mtaa Mentality, Pulpit Kwa Road and Exponential Potential have garnered rave critiques amongst followers and critics.
Owino feels strongly about empowering and uniting younger individuals. He raps in Sheng – a Kenyan language, mixing in English and Swahili as a result of in a rustic divided by tribes and sophistication traces, Owino says that is one of many issues that unifies individuals, significantly younger Kenyans.
"Kutabadilishwa na nani Kama si sisi" is the identify of one of many songs on Owino's first album, which interprets in English as "Who will change issues if it isn't us?"
Entrepreneurial alternatives
Hip-hop might have saved Juliani's life, however his actual work is constructing confidence and serving to others. He is an city social entrepreneur that is genuinely created change in his neighborhood.
"We're placing our arms into an entrepreneurship and a improvement angle to attempt to use creativity to resolve our issues," explains Juilliani.
Dandora is an japanese suburb of Nairobi. The World Financial institution challenge was established within the late Nineteen Seventies to offer reasonably priced housing to native residents. This system by no means materialised because of administration points, leaving the realm to show right into a densely populated slum and the biggest dumpsite in Kenya. The neighborhood in Dandora is rising and lots of new alternatives for entrepreneurs are opening up. For Juliani, it's a land of alternative.
Juliani's challenge, Dandora Hip-Hop Metropolis (DHC), is residence to Faculty of Rhyme and Hip-Hop Metropolis FM - neighborhood radio and a enterprise incubator. These initiatives present alternatives for people serious about schooling, arts, enterprise, know-how and environmental conservation.
Locals can obtain all types of help from the collective. "No matter you're feeling like doing, you are able to do right here. If we do not have what you'll want to assist, we are able to work out a partnership and pals to assist us do it," says Juliani.
Dandora Hip-Hop Metropolis (DHC) is a vivid, artistic house within the Dandora slums in Nairobi with a way of belonging to anybody who desires to be concerned, develop, and community. They goal to offer a secure house for teens away from the dumpsite by offering alternatives in an space the place choices are few and much between.
A secure place to be
Many younger kids are lured into the dumpsite out of desperation to outlive. It is also a spot the place prison gangs can probably exploit them. One such teenager is John Kinyanjui, who, as a baby, was scavenging in one of many many landfill websites in Dandora.
John was an aspiring rapper however did not have any sources to nurture his expertise. Juliani met John on the dumpsite and requested him to rap for him. "I used to be a bit too little, however I used to do lyrics and all that", he explains to Scenes. "So I did lyrics to him (Juliani) and he promised that at some point he is planning to start out an organisation that may work with artists and youth locally," says John.
The DHC organisation helped John get out of the dumpsite and into music. He's now a member of DHC and goes by the stage identify Sprint Johteez.
The DHC centre includes a completely geared up studio with skilled producers readily available to assist develop members' music and careers.
"The existence of DHC itself has made it potential to see that somebody can get from the dumpsite to be a CEO," explains music producer James Andare. The DHC creates a conducive setting with instruments and sources to reinforce concepts, goals and aspirations.
Taka Financial institution
Juliani's social program is available in two components. The music ingredient is DHC, however the second is an earnings era scheme named 'Taka Financial institution'. The phrase 'taka' derives from the Swahili translation of garbage. Juliani remembers seeing 'taka' all over the place in his neighborhood. He would typically marvel why nobody is doing something with this branded trash. So he determined to take motion. He took it upon himself to contact the model producers and instructed them it was an issue.
"I do not think about any type of creativeness as craziness or no matter—something in my thoughts I think about priceless. So is the power to take away it, carry it to life, is what the Taka Financial institution and the Hip-Hop metropolis and the whole lot that I attempt to do," Juliani explains.
They responded and labored with Juliani to get 'clear' trash as a substitute of trash from a landfill website. This clear trash is direct from the consumer in a family and is extra priceless to recyclers.
Funding was scarce, however Juliani arrange an area kiosk that helped the local people and made positive social help was obtainable. They amassed hundreds of followers who exchanged garbage for retailer cabinet merchandise by way of the Taka Financial institution app. So a number of plastic bottles would fetch a bag of rice.
"The neighborhood can come, deposit the trash and on the identical time, the trash converts into factors that they'll use to purchase issues on our web site," explains Juliani.
Juliani has large plans for the Taka Financial institution and desires to see extra individuals utilizing the websites and make it simpler to transform the trash into family merchandise.
"The flexibility to maneuver from a thought to a phrase or sentence and sensible motion. Not many individuals do this," he says. Juliani has created a conducive setting with instruments and sources that may improve concepts, goals and aspirations for the individuals of Dandora.
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