Dear Positivos,
We are writing to tell the world about a musical revolution which began in Inhambane on 7th April 2009, at Cine teatro Tofo. 12 new young rappers took to the stage for the first time to express themselves in the first FSD ( French Social Development) funded event at the cinema here in the city. The day was Mozambican Women’s day and for the first time in years the cinema came alive with crowds of people to witness this unique Hip-Hop battle.
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2 girls and 10 boys competed in various rounds from a-capella to rapping with the Positivo band over live instruments.
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Oi, pessoal; during our 2 weeks stay with AFRICARE in Chimoio we produced some pretty tunes, that you can download….
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“Queremos viver“, which was recorded in the Escola Secundaria 7 de Abril, a wicked kwassa kwassa style with powerful message. The children sing about their future and the obstacles to achieve their dreams. Sex abuse, violation and infection with HIV were some of the reasons, given by the participants.
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“Respeite teu corpo” was recorded in the Escola Primaria Panga Panga in Gondola, 15 km from Chimoio. It was our first attempt to work with Primary School children discussing HIV messages. The participants explain the ways in which you can become infected with HIV and the ways that you cannot get infected; as we know there is a lot of misinformation: many Mozambicans think that just touching an HIV infected person would infect them as well, or using the same towel or clothes. Also mosquitos are considered as potential HIV carriers of HIV infection. This song attempts to dispell the misinformation.
enjoy
quremos viver [4:31m]:
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respeite teu corpo [5:22m]:
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There are 3 more songs which Positivo has recorded with the local artists: one with Lolo, talking about sex too early, another one with Nito (viraka), talking about the importance of the HIV test and last but not least with Ginho.
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Finally… this is the portuguese version of the video. Maximum respect to Sangue Bom, top video production from Tofo, Inhambane, who helped us realizing this documentary. Thanks to all the pupils who participated in the event, to PSI, VSO and Joao and the Justiceiros from Inhambane…. Excuse the low picture quality due to compressing the video for web use, otherwise our mozambican friends would not be able to watch it as the intenet connection down there much slower than in Europe…
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6112172991361638481
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