In spite of the Controversy “Nishike” Elicited Sauti Sol Still Cares About Children. Here’s What They’re Doing for Them
Towards the end of April, Sauti Sol released a steamy video, “Nishike” that was not only controversial but also caused a lot of heart attacks in censorship committees but pushed it to indescribable views on YouTube.
And just as the dust is finally beginning to settle from the “Nishike” controversy, the boy band is set to embark on a project it began a couple of years back. On June 16th following their “Soma Soma Foundation”, the boys will read aloud to children on the designated Day of the African Child.
As the Reading Ambassadors, Sauti Sol is expected to endorse Start A Library’s message and spread the spirit of its message: “Reading is cool” through its (Sauti Sol’s) networks of fans and friends.
The Read Aloud is done in partnership with a number of organizations such as the Kenya Human Rights Commission, Kenya National Library Services, Kenya@50 Secretariat, Wema Trust, City Education, Kilimani Foundation, Center Narovinu, African Braille Center and Kenya Society for the Blind.
Start A Library hopes to break the Guinness World Record in reading aloud during the Day of African Child 2015. This will go a long way in slaying that awful saying, “If you want to hide something from an African, hide it in a book” The current World Record is 223,363 children reading simultaneously from across 909 venues in the United States.
