Meet the artists for our interactive session for International Youth Day!

The Global Youth Coalition for Road Safety is hosting an online event for International Youth Day on August 13 at 3 pm CET with the theme “No more youth tokenism!”.  The session will have speakers from different sectors talk about youth participation and what they are doing to ensure this.

It will also feature young people from around the world who will share their experiences doing both local and global work to show the importance of meaningfully engaging with youth.

Apart from important and poignant discussions, the session will also highlight the role of art in fighting tokenism, promoting meaningful youth engagement, and getting more young people involved in road safety through artists from Youth Arts Movement Uganda. 

These creatives will share a song, production, and poem to raise awareness on important issues anchored in the call against tokenism. Meet our creative artists! 

Hawa Nanjobe Kimbugwe
Hawa is one of the most renowned performance poets in Uganda. She wears various hats namely poet, writer, debater, nutritionist, and youth community builder. She is a passionate activist for peace and tolerance, women empowerment, humanity, social consciousness. and servant leadership.

Hawa is a proud Kitara Nation Poet, a leader of Extremely Together Young – Uganda Chapter, and an iDover and a Member of Debate Society Uganda (DSU).

Kwagala Esther
Esther is a Ugandan inspirational artist with a christian background. She is very passionate about using her voice to inspire and encourage people through different paths of life. Esther has done some music tours with the African Children's Choir in America, United kingdom and Canada.

She also travelled with the Ubuntu choir in Australia in 2018. In her music journey, she managed to record a single called Topowa in 2020.

Profet aka “Prince of Africa”
PROFET aka THE AFRICAN PRINCE, is an urban contemporary Christian rapper and singer, who is versatile in a way that his music rotates around genres like Hip-Hip, RnB and Afro Beats.

PROFET is an acronym that means; Prayer, Righteousness, Obedience, Faith, Endurance, and Trustworthy. He grew up in a family of singers, his mother and elder sister being the inspiration behind the affection he has for music that started developing at the tender age of 9. 

K. Mukwaya Meshack aka “Vann Mesh”
Vann Mesh is a Ugandan performing, recording, and creative artist, rapper, writer, social worker, and journalist with a Christian background.

He recorded his first single titled chemistry in 2015 with Charles Sekitoleko (coca-cola rated next 2nd runner up 2014).

He later recorded a song titled Mu Yesu mulimu work in 2019 which surely launched him on the scene and breakthrough to the media houses. He is also known for his catching rap skills in freestyle rap and punchlines.

“Words of Wake”
Wake is a rapper and spoken word artist with a passion for African Heritage. He does spoken word poetry that focuses on various topics; from his culture to his experiences, he expresses everything authentically and creatively.

Words of Wake also produces music and is featured in platforms like iTunes, Apple Music, Boomplay Music, Spotify, and other music platforms.

Catch our artists in action by registering to our event for International Youth Day called “No more youth tokenism!”.