Fatuma's Voice: Building an Africa that can speak for Herself...
Fatuma’s Voice is a unique educational forum based in Kenya that focuses on youth empowerment. The forum stands out because of its distinct use of Art, Poetry and Music as a tool for youth to express themselves.
Our Vision is to Build an Africa that can speak for herself. We plan to achieve this through Empowering people and encouraging them to express their voice and create ground-up practical solutions to social issues.
The first Fatuma’s Voice forum happened on Friday, 12 July 2013. It begun as an open forum and has since grown into a themed and structured event that happens each week ever since. This has had a lasting impression to the individuals and organisations that have had the privilege of attending.
They have also had an opportunity to interact and share with creative’s from other cities and countries.
Each session has a theme and a featured guest who is proficient in the day’s topic.
"Make sure you can eat up the words you spit out... ~ Nuru Bahati"
Our forum encourages expression through art, poetry, and music. This has created an avenue for creative’s to use their talents for a positive course.
We strongly believe that art can be used to create unity in diversity, as a result we have been gathering artists from different ethnic groups and have encouraged them to work together to create a national art identity.
Besides the art, Fatuma’s Voice also doubles up as a supplementary education source. As a result, we have taken the challenge of influencing and encouraging youth to grow their talents and become value-adding agents to the society.
We have a Volunteering and Internship program. This stretches from 1 week to 6 months. Just fill this →Form← to help us understand your passion and link you with the right department.
We currently have events in 3 different counties:
Nairobi: Every Saturday 5:00pm-8:00pm
Mombasa: Every 2nd Saturday 5:00pm-8:00pm
Nakuru: Every Last Saturday 5:00pm-8:00pm
We love visitors! Pass by our office during weekdays from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. You can also call or email. You will get a response within less than 2 hours. :) We embrace new ideas/projects and are waiting to hear yours.
Kindly go through a more extensive list of answers to →Frequently Asked Questions←. Also feel free to Contact Us via mail/phone: talk(at)fatumasvoice(dot)org +2547225335035/+254722790479
"I’ve attended the forum in Nairobi, but seeing Fatuma’s Voice here in Nakuru was personal. The way this forum has changed my social life and grown my talent is tremendously significant and it gives me so much joy seeing it being done at home now. I believe that more local artists will be born out of this."
Akuya Ekorot, a performing artist with his craft focused on Spoken Word poetry and both stage and screen acting. His intense poetry made him the 52nd Slam Africa King when he was only 18 years on August 2014 during the Slam Africa championships. During this period he was the under 18 representative at the Nakuru Players Theatre, an elected position by the members due to his active participation in the theatre. Source: Artiste Card
"I joined Fatuma’s Voice as an intern. I have always admired their work and wanted to experience it first hand. After my internship, I was posted to Mombasa and had to relocate. I however heard that Fatuma’s Voice has a branch in Mombasa so I inquired to find out about it and how I can participate. I was linked to Jamila who is the Mombasa team leader and I was directed to the next forum. It was a great place to meet new friends, share views about life. I was given the chance to moderate the session and it was a scary but great learning opportunity."
