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SHOWERS JALLOH TO PERFORM LIVE AT KITENGE FESTIVAL UK

Kitenge Festival UK has announced Sierra Leone's rising star and humanitarian Showers Jalloh will perform at this year's African cultural event. Kitenge Festival UK aim is to unite, educate and promote African fashion, culture, business & the arts in the UK. The one day event is sponsored by Salabed and is a unique platform which showcases Africa’s valuable, distinctive and unique heritage in a carnival atmosphere whilst instilling a sense of African pride.

In its 4th year now, the event has grown exponentially and has become a major cultural event drawing local and international crowds. It is designed to appeal to influential figures, community leaders, movers and shakers, taste makers that take active roles in setting the mould for style, cultural trends and overall ingenuity within the African Community and the general public in the UK.

Born in Kamakwie, Sierra Leone, West Africa, Showers Jalloh is a talented musician with the gift of instantly touching people's hearts with his voice. This Sierra Leone Excellence Award-winning, multicultural artist has gigged as the front man for bands in The Gambia, Sierra Leone and UK.
He brings energy and passion to live music, a soulful singer and crowd pleaser, he always engages the audience. Showers is a joy to see on stage and he turns up the heat in any venue with his positive charisma. 

This brilliant performer has performed at Crawley Mela Festival, Canterbury Music Festival (headline act), South Bank Refugee week, Folkestone Around The World Music Festival, Westfield East and West London (Westfield Presents), Dover Music Festival (Headline Act), to name but few.

Showers loves to explore various facets of his voice in different genres of music. From afrobeats, reggae, soul and funk, to dance and gospel music. ''As a songwriter, I compose what I feel and I'm inspired  by different styles, people and environments. The message and emotion of each song are most important to me''. 
The young but experienced singer's lyrics are regularly enriched with uplifting and positive messages, and Showers is currently composing songs for his second EP which he hopes to release in 2016.
In 2013 he was nominated by MasterPeace to perform one of his songs called 'One Blood' at MasterPeace Music concert in Istanbul. The song is about world peace and unity, as a testimony of his experiences during the ten years of war in his country Sierra Leone. He is also part of Aruna Jalloh foundation, a charity set up by his family to support the less privileged in his home town Kamakwie the country as a whole. Aruna Jalloh foundation has supplied books for the Kamakwie library and holds a yearly cultural and education festival in the town to raise funds which are used to support the town and to educate its people in the context of their culture.

As an artist, Showers  feels it's his responsibility to inspire the young generation, so he joined a company called Child to Child where he is recording educational radio programmes for children in Kailaihun (Sierra Leone). The programmes are currently being broadcast in Kailahun and the children are loving it.

Showers took part in the campaign for peace in Sierra Leone, in 1999, through a group called 'Gospel Campaigners for Peace' and in 2009, he also took part in the campaign to emancipate a town in Southern Sierra Leone called 'Yenga' and its people. This town was still under the control of Guinean authorities even though the war was over for seven years.
''Being a singer, I think it’s my duty to use my talent to promote peace not just in my country but all over the world".

The Festival's Founder and organiser Jo Nganda said "We are pleased to have Showers Jalloh as he is a champion of peace not only in his native Sierra Leone but also to the rest of Africa. He is a special addition to the history of Kitenge Festival UK.

Tickets: https://shoobs.com/events/9093/4th-annual-kitenge-festival-uk

Kitenge Festival UK

25 June 2016, 10 – 6PM
Barking Football Club,
84 Lodge Avenue,
London RM8 2JR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LISETTE MIBO ANNOUNCED AS GUEST SPEAKER AT KITENGE FESTIVAL UK 2016

Kitenge Festival UK has announced Congolese Humanitarian and Model Lisette Mibo as a guest speaker at this year's cultural event. Kitenge Festival UK aim is to unite, educate and promote African fashion, culture, business & the arts in the UK. The one day event is sponsored by Salabed and is a unique platform which showcases Africa’s valuable, distinctive and unique heritage in a carnival atmosphere whilst instilling a sense of African pride. In its 4^th year now, the event has grown exponentially and has become a major cultural event drawing local and international crowds. It is designed to appeal to influential figures, community leaders, movers and shakers, taste makers that take active roles in setting the mould for style, cultural trends and overall ingenuity within the African Community and the general public in the UK.

Lisette Mibo is an award-winning model based in the United Kingdom. She was born in the city of Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, where she lived until age 14. She moved to London in 2002 to get reunited with her family and to pursue her education. After obtaining a BA degree in Criminology and Sociology at the University of Middlesex in the year 2011, she decided to embark in an international modelling career. In that successful pursuit, Lisette's hard work has been rewarded with many recognitions and awards. She has been featured on the covers of many magazines, in the United Kingdom and abroad.

Among other magazines that have featured her are DivaScribe magazine (UK), Amina magazine (France), OhYes magazine (Ghana), Tropics Magazine (South Africa), Zen magazine (Nigeria), just to name a few. She received the Best Female Model Awards at the Black Entertainment Film Fashion Television Award (BEFFTA) in 2012, then at the Congolese Achievement Award in 2013. In early January 2016, at UWC Atlantic College, she gave a very well received TEDx Talk on the topic of "Living On the Edge" where, while recounting her journey from the Congo to the United Kingdom, she stressed on the necessity of always striving forward in spite of life's challenges. Moved by the urge to put people together, Lisette founded Passion for Motherland (PFM) in 2013, a Platform with the objective to raise funds and awareness intended to support existing organizations running empowering projects at grassroots level in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For three consecutive years, through PFM, the Model turned Humanitarian had organised community showcases, which had brought together more than three hundred people in order to support emerging talents in the areas of Fashion, Music and Poetry.

In December 2015, however, she travelled back to Kinshasa, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, to pay her last respects to her grandmother, a woman who had played a key role in her life. Whilst there, she realized just how dreadful the situation of street children living in Kinshasa was, and felt a moral duty to intervene. She has, as a result, made a conscious decision to be part of the solution. And this decision has given birth to a new mission for Passion for Motherland as an organisation, which will commit to empower both street boys and girls in Kinshasa through education, skills acquisition, micro-economic loans, medical assistant, just to name a few. Lisette Mibo believes into the principle of sending the elevator down to bring more people up.

The Festival's Founder and organiser Jo Nganda said "We are pleased to have Lisette back again this year as a guest speaker after she helped host the event last year. She is doing amazing work in the Congo with her charity Passion for Motherland who better to tell us about the story of Africa?

Kitenge Festival UK

25^th June 2016, 10 – 6PM
Barking Football Club, 84 Lodge Avenue, London RM8 2JR