Glo-sponsored CNN African Voices Highlights Story of 3 Vocal Artistes

Rwanda’s Sherrie Silver, dance choreographer, actress, creative director and philanthropist; Shifa Amankwah-Gabbey, a spelling bee winner from Ghana, and Pretty Yende, a singer from Mpumalanga, South Africa will be guests on CNN’s African Voices, a documentary program which celebrates Africa’s emerging trendsetters in various spheres of life.

The programme airs on the CNN channel on DSTV from 9.30 a.m. on Friday with repeats on Saturday  at 12.30 a.m.,  4.30 p.m. and 8.30 p.m. Other repeat broadcasts come up on Sunday, 5.00 a.m., 9.30 a.m. and 8.30 p.m. with more repeats on Monday and Tuesday at 5.30 a.m. and 6.30 p.m. respectively. The show is sponsored by telecommunications giant, Globacom.

24-year-old Silver is the brain behind This is America, American singer Childish Gambino’s video which has thus far attracted more than 540 million views on YouTube. She reveals on African Voices her  mission to educate the world about African cultures through the art of dance.

The award-winning choreographer is also campaigning to promote investments among rural Africa’s young people.

The second guest on the programme is 13-year-old Shifa Amankwah-Gabbey who beat over 150 other spellers across the country to clinch the ultimate prize of the 2018 National Spelling Bee competition in Ghana. The Junior High School student subsequently represented the country in the 91st Scripps Spelling Bee in the United States of America.

Yende, the third feature on the programme, is a 34-year-old opera singer and is seen as a ‘modern fairy-tale’ . A soprano singer, her ascendancy to the top of the opera world was very fast, having performed leading roles at opera houses internationally including La Scala and the Metropolitan Opera.

Her journey to the opera world began at 16 after seeing a British Airways TV advertisement that made a heavy impression on her young mind. She thereafter enrolled at the South African College of Music from which she graduated cum laude.