Don’t miss the stage performance of Checkmate Mido, as part of his MobiArts tour on Friday, September 13th, 2024, from 7pm at Centre Culturel Ubuntu (Quartier Fouda).
The Goethe MobiArts project is a cultural program by the Goethe-Institut that enables artists from sub-Saharan Africa to tour the continent through its network of institutes and to enter dialogue with the local scenes. The performing art disciplines concerned include storytelling, dance, music, poetry-slam, and theatre. The aims of the Goethe MobiArts project are to promote cultural diversity and intercultural dialogue, to access new audiences and markets for African artists, to promote talents from the region and their careers, and to the develop South-South cooperation.
For the 2024 edition, four artists from a variety of disciplines and from different geographical and linguistic areas of the continent have been selected: Checkmate Mido (slam, Kenya), Aneth Silva (dance, Angola), Keenan Meyer (pianist, South Africa) and Skriim (electro music, Cameroon).
Checkmate Mido is a household name in the music and spoken word scene in Nairobi-Kenya. Fusing rhyme and rhythms to tell compelling stories through music, his work has been featured on BBC Focus on Africa,
Arts Hour, and Music in Africa. Checkmate has shared the stage with Award winner, The Soil, as well as globally acclaimed hip-hop artist Akua Naru. His critically acclaimed debut album, FRQNCY, was released in 2020 to great reception and reviews. He is a Goethe Talents 2023 Scholarship recipient, after which he completed a well-received East African tour in 2023. He recently completed a US tour as part of the OneBeat 13 Music residency and is set to release his sophomore album, Ua.
