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==Advocacy== | ==Advocacy== | ||
B Flow has been using music to advocate against issues affecting communities such as gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. In July 2016, he and Queen Latifah led 5,000 people in a march past with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation at the Keep The Promise Concert & March in Durban, South Africa. The concert was a reminder to the world leaders that AIDS is not over and there is need to continue and to increase funding for its prevention and treatment. | B Flow has been using music to advocate against issues affecting communities such as gender-based violence and HIV/AIDS. In July 2016, he and Queen Latifah led 5,000 people in a march past with the AIDS Healthcare Foundation at the Keep The Promise Concert & March in Durban, South Africa. The concert was a reminder to the world leaders that AIDS is not over and there is need to continue and to increase funding for its prevention and treatment. | ||
==Recognition== | |||
President Barack Obama gave special recognition to B Flow when delivering his speech to the 2015 Mandela Leadership Fellows on August 3 in Washington, D.C. President Obama spoke highly of the artise for using his music to advocate against gender-based violence and to educate youths on HIV/AIDS.<ref>[http://zambianeye.com/archives/35739 US President Obama ‘shouts out’ Zambian artiste B-Flow], [[Zambian Eye]], 5 August 2015</ref> | |||
== Music and election == | == Music and election == | ||
