Silas

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Re-source and re-energize your capacity to connect and translate what you love into positive actions that serve others. Come experience what it means to “live hiphop” through the truth and consciousness of Silas, an indigenous practioner from Uganda. 

 “...hiphop is an awareness.. .a voice that originates in the realm of the divine…it transforms subjects and objects to transform the desires of our inner being. it is a ourcollective creativity emanatingthrough God within self...To say i am hiphop..means that what we say and do is also who we are…i am my own strategy for self improvement..”

-- KRS, 2008 BET (Black Entertainment Television) lifetime achievement award recipient for his work with the Stop the Violence Movement

 Silas Balabyekkubo, also known as Babaluka, is an award-winning musician, producer, community youth activist and social entrepreneur. A founding member of Uganda’s legendary hip hop group, Bataka Squad, Silas is known for introducing Luga Flow to Uganda’s creative scene. This unique and powerful style of positive Hip Hop music has inspired youth in Uganda to embrace and celebrate their native languages, culture and tradition. Silas is dedicated to changing lives and giving hope to young people from the ghetto slums of Kampala to war torn Northern Uganda. Through the Bavubuka Foundation Silas supports projects that are calling forth the spirit of Ugandan people in creative arts, youth empowerment, education, community development, sports, fashion, journalism, and community-building events.