The Street is My Pulpit: Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Gospel in Kenya
Session Description
"If God had a Facebook page would he accept friend requests from saints or prostitutes?” So asks Juliani, a Kenyan Christian hip hop artist. His music represents a slice of contemporary Christianity in Kenya especially as it is experienced, expressed, and understood among youth, who constitute the great majority of this very young nation. This workshop will explore some of the ways youth express and understand their Christian faith and how it relates to the contemporary social, economic, and political realities facing their generation in Kenya today.
Conference Title
2014 Calvin Symposium on Worship
Event Date
1-30-2014
Event Type
Workshop/Seminar
Type (recording/text)
Recording
Topic
Culturally-Contextual Worship
Recommended Citation
Ntarangwi, Mwenda, "The Street is My Pulpit: Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Gospel in Kenya" (2014). Symposium on Worship Archive. 4.
https://digitalcommons.calvin.edu/uni-cicw-symposium/2014/sessions/4
The Street is My Pulpit: Hip Hop, Youth Culture, and the Gospel in Kenya
"If God had a Facebook page would he accept friend requests from saints or prostitutes?” So asks Juliani, a Kenyan Christian hip hop artist. His music represents a slice of contemporary Christianity in Kenya especially as it is experienced, expressed, and understood among youth, who constitute the great majority of this very young nation. This workshop will explore some of the ways youth express and understand their Christian faith and how it relates to the contemporary social, economic, and political realities facing their generation in Kenya today.