The Nile Project is a cross-cultural initiative bringing together musicians from the Nile countries to perform along the river and around the world.Meklit is an Ethiopian-American singer-songwriter (www.meklithadero.com), and Mina is an Egyptian ethnomusicologist.
Together these two created the Nile Project. Loosely based on the Silk Road Project, the Nile Project is a multicultural musical platform that will bring together hip-hop and traditional musicians living in the Nile countries (Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Ethiopia, South Sudan, Sudan, and Egypt) to play and record music, to tour down the river and its source lakes on a boat made of recycled water bottles, and to share an experience that will connect the peoples of the river.
Meklit and Mina realized that though East Africa's Nile cultures have shared millenia of history, today they do not know very much about each other. They decided to start this musical project so that the people of the river could get to know their neighbors through a mutual sharing of stories, sound, music, mythology, and culture. See more and donate here
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