Ghana’s adorable songstress Becca was among other top African artistes who were in Rosebank, South Africa, to record a song as part of Global Goals campaign to raise awareness on 17 sustainable goals of the United Nations.
The Global Goals campaign, which launches this month, released an all-African song titled, “Tell Everybody” on September 4, 2015 with the aim to inspire young people to know their rights encompassed in the 17 goals and hold their governments accountable in relation to their promises to end extreme poverty, fight inequality and climate change by 2030.
British filmmaker and campaigner Richard Curtis, who has dedicated the last year of his life to grooming the successors to the Millennium Development Goals, is behind the Global Goals for Sustainable Development famous around the world.
The Global Goals will be signed by every leader in the world on September 25 at the UN in New York.
Award-winning producers Cobhams Asuquo (Nigeria), David KING David Muthami (Kenya) and Ellputo (Mozambique) collaborated on the track which was recorded by Becca, Mafikizolo, Wizkid, Yemi Alade, Toofan, Sauti Sol and Diamond in Johannesburg’s Jazzworx studio last week.
In order to ensure the song captured the voices of Africa’s youth, the songwriters decided to crowd-source two verses (French and English) for the song via a mobile phone competition, “Add Your Voice/Add Your Verse”, run by Every1 Mobile. During the two weeks that the competition ran, over 3,000 people entered from 25 African countries.