NEFCISA
NEFCISA

The Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) is proud to announce its partnership with the Industrial Development Corporation (IDC) as a Strategic Implementing Partner (SIP) for its Social Employment Fund (SEF). Through this collaboration, MIAF is launching a new national programme designed to create jobs, address skills gaps, and strengthen South Africa’s creative industries — in line with the SEF’s overarching goal to generate work for the common good and build community value through employment, social contribution, and inclusive economic participation. Operating under the banner NEFCISA (National Employment Facility for Creative Industries in South Africa), the initiative will recruit and train participants, match them with host organisations, and place a minimum of 1 000 workers across the country. Key Objectives: Support employment and entrepreneurship in the creative industries. Offer skills development and training programmes. Foster partnerships between public and private creative sectors. Promote South African creativity at both provincial and national levels Foster community development through social contribution.

ACCES
ACCES

ACCES has stamped its authority as Africa’s leading music trade event. At the 2019 edition in Accra, the conference brought together more than 1 200 delegates from about 50 countries on the continent and beyond. The conference also hosted 76 showcasing artists from Africa and the diaspora, who got to perform for an influential audience at two top live venues in the Ghanaian capital. Apart from live showcases, the event features panel discussions, presentations, exhibitions, pitch sessions, Q&A sessions with prominent musicians and visits to key music industry hubs in the host city. Many of these activities will be planned for ACCES 2021, with the ACCES team already exploring a tailor-made programme that will cater for the specific needs of the local music industry amid the pandemic. ACCES is organised by the Music In Africa Foundation, a non-profit and pan-African organisation, in partnership with Siemens Stiftung and Goethe-Institut.

Gender@Work
Gender@Work

Music In Africa Gender @ Work is a three-year training programme aimed at upskilling and increasing the participation of female professionals in the African music sector. Launched by the Music In Africa Foundation (MIAF) in April 2019, the programme is connected to the MIAF’s ACCES music conference – a pan-African event held in a different African country every year. This connection enables the programme to reach new participants in a different African country every year. The programme marks the beginning of a more concerted effort by the Foundation to support the participation and inclusion of women in all facets of its programmes and the music sector in Africa as a whole. Over the three years, the programme will aim to address gender imbalances in the sector through training, lobbying, facilitating knowledge exchange and dialogues that foster the interest of women. The broader objectives of the programme are to: Provide industry training for women on critical music industry skills, focusing on: Stage management Electronic music production and recording Music business management Technical knowledge Provide an opportunity for both professional and aspiring women to benefit from the Music In Africa network and its broad range of activities in 2019, 2020 and 2021. Provide a solution-based platform in the form of a round table at ACCES with a view to identify challenges, discuss opportunities and lobby for the interests of female practitioners. Offer participants the opportunity to benefit from programmes offered by MIAF’s partners. Increase access to educational materials. Integrate participants in the broader ACCES programme to maximise experience and exposure to the industry. Record and present training materials on the www.musicinafrica.net, including but not limited to tutorials, templates and other best-practice materials. Communicate women-based themes that support the initiatives and messages of the programme. MAIN TRAINING ACTIVITIES Training in first country (Ghana): In the first year, participants will be trained on all aspects of stage management by a team of experienced stage managers from 10 to 17 November 2019. The programme will offer robust classroom training as well as practical, hands-on training in which participants will also be given the opportunity to manage various aspects of the ACCES performance programme. Training in second country: The second training iteration will take place at ACCES 2020 when the programme will diversify its course to include music production lessons and training on other music business topics. A round-table platform will also be introduced to coincide with the ACCES programme. Training in third country: The third training iteration will take place at ACCES 2021 in a different country, offering an advanced course. HOW DO YOU GET INVOLVED?  As a participant, facilitator or trainer: The programme enrolls up to 12 trainees every year. All opportunities are advertised publicly on this website, and will be added to this page. Please keep checking this page for new calls (below under UPDATES & CURRENT OPPORTUNITIES). As a partner Please contact Claire Metais at claire@musicinafrica.net. APPLY The call for applications for 2020 will be announced soon. The Music In Africa Gender @ Work programme is made possible with the support of the Prince Claus Fund, Siemens Stiftung and Goethe-Institut.

Sound Connects Fund
Sound Connects Fund

For cultural and creative practitioners and organisations operating in southern Africa, access to funding remains a major challenge. The COVID-19 pandemic has also had a massive impact on government policy, spending and the economy in general, and has seen spending on culture being moved further down the list of priorities. Further, the cultural and creative industries repeatedly cite four main areas where investment is needed for growth, which are increased visibility, mobility including access to new markets, finance and support structures.

Instrument Building And Repair Project
Instrument Building And Repair Project

Experience the Vibrations African Instruments Exhibition online in 3D

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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

In operation since:

1 Jan 2018

Contact person:

MSK Prime

BIO

Mohsin Habib Osman, popularly known as MSK Prime, is a musician and gamer from Ethiopia. He was born on March 30, 2002, in Addis Ababa. After his YouTube career failed, he developed an interest in music and continued to make music on his Owen by producing, writing, and mastering his songs. He was greatly influenced by rappers like Lil Dicky and other musicians, which is why he prefers to sing while rapping. His debut song, "Girlfriend," became very popular on Facebook. MSK Prime launches his own record label, Gigantic Production, to support his musical career and make music. Girlfriend was the first piece of music that he produced. He continued to play games and be an influencer on TikTok.

Early in 2021, MSK Prime began to produce his most impressive music to date. He trained diligently to write the song's amazing lyrics, "Ethiopian King," which took five minutes to write. He considered his friend Jolax, the best producer in Ethiopia. After finalizing the song, MSK went to Geez Stars, one of Ethiopia's biggest film productions, to create his wonderful music video. It took Jolax a full month to produce and master the song. This was the tale of the creation of "Ethiopian King" and the song's epic voyage. MSK Prime is only getting started.

MSK Prime grew up in the Addis Ababa neighborhood, raised by his father, Habib, and his mother, Sofia. He began to show curiosity about music at the age of nine. He graduated from School Of Tomorrow, after attending most of his high school at Ebenezer High School. He was smart and gifted in math and physics. He started filming YouTube sketches and music videos when he was still in high school and this was his first step towards stardom. He began his professional career as an artist at the age of sixteen in 2018, writing, recording and mastering his song and founding his own music label, Gigantic Production, to distribute his music globally.

Hip Hop / Rap has established itself as a universal genre. Due to its particular style and ability to convey or deliver authentic stories, hip hop is the most popular music genre on the planet.
'90s reggae and pop songs are entertaining, but they're not my thing. Reggae is more of a song of peace and hope, which I don't like, but I have the chemistry of reggae in my blood as an Ethiopian," acknowledges MSK Prime in an interview conducted by Free Press Info.

The hip hop artists who have most influenced MSK Prime are: Lil Dicky for his distinctive humor and storytelling, Kanye West, Kendrick Lamar and Lil Wayne, "who have taught me to believe in myself and never stop do what I do."

As a Hip Hop artist, MSK Prime seeks to bring people together by expressing their worldview. In his first album «Wisdom», he reflects the wisdom that this artist has gained in the last 20 years of his life. "One of the biggest projects I've ever worked on took all my efforts as my own signed label, and it's hard to handle everything on your own," says MSK Prime.

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