DEAR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND FANS,

ARE THERE ROLE MODELS WITHIN YOUR COMMUNITY, MAKING A BIG DIFFERENCE TO LIFE WHO YOU FEEL THE WORLD SHOULD KNOW ABOUT? 

ARE THERE UNSUNG HEROES WITHING YOUR REGION AT GRASS- ROOT LEVEL, SETTING THE PACE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW?

DO YOU KNOW OF EVERY DAY SIMPLE PEOPLE WITH REAL LIFE STORIES WHO ARE CONSTANTLY ON THE GO, CHANGING LIVES, EMPOWERING THE YOUTH AND FEEDING OUR GENERATION WITH THE FRUITS OF WORD AND ACTION

I WILL LIKE TO HEAR FROM YOU AND I WILL LIKE TO HEAR FROM THEM AND I WILL BE MORE THAN HAPPY TO PUBLISH THEIR STORIES AND PROMOTE THEIR PLATFORMS ON MY BLOG AND OUR SOCIAL MEDIA PLATFORMS, WHICH INCLUDE-AFRICA AWAKENING INTERNATIONAL, AFRICANS IN LONDON AND AFRICANS IN BERKSHIRE AND FRIENDS, BUT MOST IMPORTANTLY, Africa4U IN CONJUNCTION WITH Zimlink Zimbabwe AND Dark Zac WILL BE HAPPY TO CONDUCT VIDEO INTERVIEWS WITH THEM AND SHARE THE STORIES WITH THE WORLD
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The artist known as Elaka™ is an award winning British singer/songwriter.This young pioneer leaves no stone unturned when it comes to the endless talent she possesses. Amongst her many talents her main love is music, it has always been Elaka’s dream to be able to write and perform her music. She says: “I feel like I come alive when I am either in the studio or holding that mic in front of an audience, it’s an exhilarating experience” With the fortunate heritage of being Zambian and the privilege of living in the UK, she gets the opportunity to experiment with her identity as a Zambian mixed with an English culture through her music.

Elaka does not like to be compared to other artists as she feels that each artist is unique in their creativity she says: “that’s what helps us maintain our individuality, I have a different vocal style, my range is vast it bridges 4 octaves but in most cases I like to keep it simple but interesting, I try not to limit myself or get pigeon holed, that just wouldn’t be me”. Her voice allows her the ability to experiment with various genres of music, and like her voice her sound is not genre specific either. She writes songs about her emotions and her life’s journey, observations from others and her own personal experiences, and lets the sound take her wherever that emotion goes.

A lot of people are probably wondering who Elaka is, and where she came from. Elaka has been around in the industry for a while, and has kept it reasonably low key in regards to her music, in order to horn her skills. She used this time to nurture her talent and to learn more about the industry. This time also allowed her the opportunity to build up on her many talents mentioned above. She is now a proud owner of a 2 time award winning branding, marketing,and record label Effycom Productions www.effycomproductions.co.uk, a 2010 two time BEFFTA nominated Beauty Pageant Queen Of Zambia UK www.queenofzambiauk.co.ukwhich aids in promoting Zambians around the world and also help various charities in particular the ones in Zambia, a clothing line Elrhy Clothing and in 2009 was a cast member of the UK independent movie Find Her Keep Her and the list goes on. 

Before 2011 Elaka had the privilege of performing on the same stage as some of UK and Zambia’s top artists such as Sway, Devlin, Fumin, Chipmunk, Bashy, Omar, Shola Ama, Ghetts, Tinchy Stryder just to name a few; and from Zambia Mozegeta, K’Million, Petersen, Danny, Angela Nyirenda, MC Wabwino, the Late Lilly T and many more. She has also had the privilege of performing with the likes of Legendary Tony Hadley (of Spandle Ballet), Brenda Edwards (of Xfactor and Chicago fame), Duncan James from Blue, Omar, Shola Ama, Ghetts and Bashy. With her promo single titled “I Can’t Let You Go” which was released in March 2011 is looking very promising for Elaka. Her producer Gary Hutchins who is a music industry veteran, has worked with even bigger legends such as Bob Marley, Liza Minnelli, Shirley Bassey, Frank Sinatra just to name a few; he has accolades of awards in sell out gigs and platinum and gold plaques. It is safe to say that our Zambian born princess of alternative music is in safe hands. Having been hard at work with redefined fresh material for 2011/12, the release of her promo single I Can’t Let You Go, which is available for digital download, with a follow up to release her debut single titled ‘My Africa’ scheduled for release mid 2012. Her promo single has already received great feedback from the UK and the rest of Europe, paving a great path for her soon to be released debut single. With a number of collaborations already in the pipeline with African and UK 

 One the Verge

Of Another Awakening

And another opening …

Into a new land of a fertile harvest

I recall the days I sat on the fence

Wondering into space

and staring at the motion of the same old pattern

Static in Stance,

And not taking that dive

Into the big blue ocean

And now …

I find myself swimming

embraced by the presence of the stormy waters

How deep is the Ocean?

What lies beyond the the surface of the Sky?

Only time will tell

Once you take that leap

It all started from a thin line,

On a warm sunny day,

The presence of new energy ..

fills a new space like a perfect puzzle.

And those eyes …

They just sit in a corner

Embracing and absorbing the language ..

and the music of a new stranger

It all started from a thin line.

A collective force of  …….

handshakes

stories

energy

laughter

growth

mental debates

hide and seek

and constant sparks of dejavu

And then suddenly

A new tide unfolded from nowhere

And added new light to the season

And so now were are JUST FRIENDS.

  DEAR FAMILY, FRIENDS AND FANS, I AM PLEASED TO INFORM YOU THAT AFRICA4U WILL BE GIVING OUT 5 AWARDS IN THE UK THIS YEAR, OUR AWARDS BASED ON MERIT, PURELY IN RECOGNITION OF UPCOMING BLACK ROLE MODELS AND UNSUNG HEROES MAKING A DIFFERENCE TO VARIOUS COMMUNITIES – THESE ARE PEOPLE YOU DO NOT OFTEN GET TO HEAR ABOUT- WHO ARE SELFLESS IN THEIR JOURNEY AT INSPIRING PEOPLE AT GRASS- ROOT LEVELS.

WE WILL ALSO BE OFFICIALLY LAUNCHING THE AFRICA4U BRAND AT THE HOUSE OF PARLIAMENT AS PART OF BLACK HISTORY MONTH IN OCTOBER
THE AFRICA4U BRAND CONSISTS OF AFRICA4U MEDIA, THE AFRICA4U MENTORING ACADEMY AND THE AFRICA4U ACHIEVEMENT AWARDS FOR AFRICANS AROUND THE WORLD- THIS IS GOING TO BE A PRIVATE INVITATION EVENT

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ITS ALL ABOUT Zim Link– SETTING THE PACE FOR A BETTER TOMORROW

AFTV-African Television: The Birth of the 1st African TV station in The Netherlands.
Scope Media TV an African company and Astra Ses based in The Netherlands have signed a 5 year contract to promote Africa through television.
Scope Media TV chose Astra-SES headquartered in Luxembourg because of the companies understanding of the need to promote Africa in the western world. Approaching Astra-SES for initial negotiations, Scope Media TV Chairman and Director of operations – Europe, Mr. Larry Omodia says: Astra owns majority of the satellites in orbital space. For such a company, they do business in the sky. So when approached by an African company, you would expect an attitude of nonchalance. In our case, Bill Wijdeveld of Astra SES has been pretty down to earth.
The negotiations of this relationship took about 11 months, all through the period, Astra-SES has been encouraging, supportive and they understand the need to promote Africa.
AFTV is the newest and first African Television in the Netherlands. The broadcast of AFTV also extends to IPTV as well as satellite and internet. So viewers can see the channel on all platform. This practically means you can see AFTV all over the world. You can watch on satellite dish pointing to Astra 23.5, you can watch on Iphion set top box sold by ScopemediaTV.com or you can watch it on www.AFTV.NL. It is expected that major cable companies will broadcast AFTV directly to cable subscribers.

Though the Lagos Nigerian based company is broadcasting from the Netherlands, viewers in England, U.S.A, Canada, Germany, Netherlands, Belgium and the rest of the world can watch AFTV world wide.
Director of operations, Larry Omodia says: The goal of AFTV is to assist embassies in promoting Africa. Look at us as a PR company for all African countries. We have to sell ourselves. No one will promote you positively unless you start the job yourself. Western TV promotes their beliefs and value aggressively through the media. Africa must sell African values in like manners. We must come into your living room, your dinning room, wherever you watch TV, we must bring positive African values to you. I am selling Africa. And you should buy Africa.
Investors are swarming the new station for partnership. They see a huge potential for this station. AFTV has partnered with other TV stations in Africa and around the world. LTV8-Lagos is expected to broadcast through AFTV, MBC based in Houston Texas is also in talks to broadcast on AFTV, negotiations are on with OBE, TV stations from Ghana, South Africa, Morocco are all sweeping in on partnership with AFTV.
This means the stations will all have viewership in Europe and America through AFTV.

Scope Media Tv based in Den Haag says this launching creates job opportunities for sales marketers, production crews, Journalist , TV producers, camera, and post production. The company has a huge line up of shows and movies to be produced locally in the Netherlands. One of such shows is “Pastor@sinnersHouse.com”, CommedyHouse, AFTV-original movie series. 
Expected to grace the occasion of the launching on March 10th, 2012 are: Ambassadors of Kenya. She is expected to speak on “The need to promote Africa on TV”, Ambassador of Nigeria whom is expected to “Unvail” and activate the first broadcast of AFTV to the world. Among the list are the Mayor of Den Haag, ambassadors and foreign ministers.

      In the picture above- The CEO of African Television Channels Netherlands- Pastor Larry, receives  and AFRICA4U Achievement

      Awards for Africans in Holland