The concert will take place at Ås föreningshus, 6 p.m. I will participate together with my friend Bengt-Anton Runsten, vocalist from the band Hindenburg. We will play both mine and his songs.
MC Talka Poster for the event on Saturday
About Mali
This Saturday there will be a concert to
support people in Mali. The money will help villagers outside Gao to
build wells. Yesterday I met up with MC Talka, a rapper from Gao, who
just managed to escape from the country. There is a war raging over
there and he gave me his version of the story behind. It goes back to
the conflict in Libya where a large number of weapons slipped out. Al
Qaida members joined with Tuaregs in northern Mali, who for a long
time have wanted their own country. In the same region there were
plans for extracting oil in 2012. In other words, there's more to
this than meets the eye. The rebels get financial support from
countries that are interested in the oil findings. According to MC, a
french company who lost a mining contract in the region, has a part
in it as well. A few days ago, there was news of a principal in a
school in Gao getting shot by Al Qaida when he refused to separate
boys and girls in the class rooms. These extreme Islamic type of
actions are not what the Touregs stand for, therefor there is now a
conflict among the rebels. When the war in the north had been going
on for some time, a group of low-ranking army officers
in the capitol city Bamako decided to make a coup against the
president. The poorly planned operation only ended up destabilizing
the the country even more. They soon realized the reality of things
and gave up the power. Now, a new neutral government supported by the
UN is in charge. Mali is a very peaceful country and the population
is in shock that this could happen to them. Besides the obvious
downsides, this has led to racism against Touaregs in general. That
is exactly why we need events like the one this Saturday. To
discourage prejudices. Come and meet MC Talka as well as people from
other countries in West Africa. Come and listen to music from Mali,
Senegal and Sweden. Come and see the diversity of Jämtland and the
world.
The concert will take place at Ås föreningshus, 6 p.m. I will participate together with my friend Bengt-Anton Runsten, vocalist from the band Hindenburg. We will play both mine and his songs.
MC Talka Poster for the event on Saturday
The concert will take place at Ås föreningshus, 6 p.m. I will participate together with my friend Bengt-Anton Runsten, vocalist from the band Hindenburg. We will play both mine and his songs.
MC Talka Poster for the event on Saturday