Music and Africa

 I’ve always been fascinated by Africa. Africa is the biggest country in the world and has the poorest people in the world. And poor people are what attract me the most, because they can make music like no other people. Poor persons need care as well, so I can make myself really useful by helping them becoming happy.  

When listening to a certain tribe playing their complicated music, I always wonder how they come up with the songs. After some thorough investigation I found out that the art of creating the music the tribe played was ancient. They play the same songs for countless generations and will pass it to the generations to come.
The songs are so complicated because the tribe members have nothing else to do but playing music.
They don’t have to work or have appointments in their agenda, they don’t even have an agenda!
All they do is playing music. And that is why I am so impressed of Africa.

Music for the poor

I’m a charity lover and I find music a very important factor of charity. Most of my colleagues ignore the need for music and they just build new houses, give clothes, tools for harvesting and more of that. But I just find music the most meaningful thing on earth and everyone on this planet should be able to enjoy music, especially the poor people.  I know that they are able to sing songs and play drums on some empty barrels, but that’s not real music. The music should be sophisticated. You can compare this with food. Everyone needs food, however, there are different grades of food. I just eat vegetables and fruit. Some evil people eat meat as well. My latest project is to give poor people in Africa music instruments, but something has to change before they receive their instruments. They need to change their eating habits. I let the sign a contract stating they’re only allowed to eat vegan, so no milk either.  I have convinced many tribes to sign the contract. I send one of my employees once in a while to check if they do not break the contract. It happened once that they violated the terms in the contract. They were eating meat and drinking milk. After being called by my employee I went to Africa and destroyed all the music instruments we’ve donated to them. Because the situation was threatening to us, we’ve decided to confiscate their cows as well. Fortunately, this only happened once. 

The reasons to give to charity

As you probably already figured out from my last post it is a fact that I love charity.

Other people tend to forget how important it is to give to charity. It is safe to say that you’re a bad person if you don’t donate money to charity. I’m in the charity business and I love it. It feels so good to help other people and make a living out of it at the same time.
It feels good to know that there are people on this planet desperately looking for my help. That’s why I like to go by myself to the location where the charity is needed. My personal favorite is Africa and my favorite country in Africa is Zimbabwe.
The children and people in Zimbabwe are among the most demanding on the planet. They won’t survive properly without my help. I told you how I helped them by giving some instruments. But that’s not it. I talk to them and make them laugh. I once was visiting a smaller tribe and they just loved me, they treated me like I was a god.  That felt pretty good.
But to be honest they were kind of right. Technically spoken I am a god in a way. I mean I help other people by controlling them and their environment, exactly how god operates. God must feel good as well.
The reason you should give to charity is that all the poor people on this planet who aren’t able to take care of themselves and each other can get a proper life.

Music locally

In Africa I've discovered the importancy and influence of music.

Because I 
consider myself a good person (after all I do a lot for charity),  I've decided to bring back my experiences to my local village.

In my local village the children have no cultural awareness whatsoever. 
That's why I took an example and created a charity model in my village for Africa.

Every child in my village playing an instrument has to play in the local big band and perform in the local concert hall.  The entrance for this concert is reasonable priced. The price I've set was $25 per adult and $20 per child, children younger than 6 months good get in for $15. 

Some parents were protesting because their children weren't getting any profit from the concert.
It made me mad! 
Immediately I've showed them pictures of poor children from Africa, and told the parents they were heartless. Come on the rich western kids should be forced to raise money for Africa!

Fortunately most parents encouraged the benefit concert!
The first time was a great 
success. I've raised a lot of money. Twenty percent of the profit went to Africa, to the tribes where I've sent the musical instruments as well. The other percentage was needed for me and my crew.

We're now organizing a benefit concert every month and even offer yearly subscriptions for the concerts.
Besides charity concerts, we organize marathon runs as well. The children raise money by going door to door asking for 
people and evil companies to give them money. Of course it's not a whole marathon just half a marathon. All the money for the marathon goes to Africa and me and my crew as well.

This was my local story, please come back often to check out more of my great stories!

Music is for everyone

Welcome to my blog.

Last year I went to Zimbabwe (Africa). I was there to meet two tribes in different villages to help them build houses and schools in those small villages.  Well that was my intention, it became much more than previous mentioned help.

But the first thing I noticed was how happy the people were!  Besides building new houses, schools and more, I decided to investigate their happiness. What was the cause of it?

Music

That's it! They kept on singing and drumming in their spare time! 

The song they've created were moving, 
beautiful. All the boys and men played drums, while the women and girls danced and sang. It was great to watch and join them. The drums took the rhythm of my heartbeat or the other way around, not sure about that. They played hundreds of different song in a music style I cannot describe the way I should. You'll have to experience it yourself.

On the first day I've arrived it was obvious to me, they need musical instruments to become even happier. Of course they also needed proper houses and a school. And the 
clothes not to forget, the clothes were hideous! That's why me and my small  team shipped in some nice clothes as well. 

Musical instruments

One of my 
team-members complained to me about me wanting to ship in musical instruments.
We just couldn't agree. At the end of the discussion 
I've fired him., with pain in my heart.
The pain vanished at the moment the instruments arrived. 
The instrument container contained lots of different drums (the drums they had were to low-tech), guitars, a trumpet and last but not least: the 
didgeridoo

The reason I let the 
didgeridoo ship in was because I knew they were quite popular among tribes in Australia.
It was 
really fun to see how the tribe-members tried their new instruments. They just didn't know how to play them, so silly:)

Me and my 
team-members set an example to play a short little song. It was amazing how they responded to the music. They loved it. Then I knew I had done my duty:  make other people in poor countries happy.

After a week or two we had to leave, knowing that some of the 
tribe-members knew how to play a nice tune on the trumpet or guitar, they didn't like the didgeridoo as a music instrument. But hey found use in it to club down small animals for dinner.

It has been months since I left and I still know I did good 
out there.
Everyone should help poor people in 
Africawhether it is by donating money or to physically help them build their villages. Both will do.

 

 

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