Top selling Ghanaian musical artist, Becca, has joined other top African
artists in Rosebank, South Africa to record a song as part of efforts
to raise awareness about the 17 sustainable goals by the United Nations.
The Global Goals campaign, which launches this month, will release an
All-African song, titled “Tell Everybody” on September 4, 2015.
The song is aimed at inspiring young people to know their rights
encompassed in the 17 goals and hold their governments accountable to
their promises to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and climate
change by 2030.
British film-maker and campaigner, Richard Curtis, who has dedicated
the last year of his life to making the successors to the Millennium
Development Goal is the brain behind the Global Goals for Sustainable
Development around the world.
The Global Goals will be signed by every leader in the world on September 25 at the UN in New York.
Award-winning producers Cobhams Asuquo (Nigeria), David KING David
Muthami (Kenya) and Ellputo (Mozambique) collaborated on the track which
was recorded by Becca, Mafikizolo, Wizkid, Yemi Alade, Toofan (Togo),
Sauti Sol (Kenya) and Diamond in Johannesburg’s Jazzworx studio last
week.
In order to ensure the song captured the voice of Africa’s Youth, the
songwriters have decided to crowd source two verses (French and English)
for the song via a mobile phone competition, “Add Your Voice/Add Your
Verse”, run by Every1 Mobile.
During the two weeks that the competition ran, over 3000 people entered from 25 African countries.
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