Important Lessons to Learn from Teta Diana’s ‘Iwanyu’ Album

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By Kinyua Mwangi

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Music serves different goals; key among them being entertaining but there is a higher calling more than that which is making people and their communities better.

Teta Diana, a bubbly Rwandan artiste holds that besides entertaining, she has strived to ensure that her music impacts her people. True to her words, her album ‘Iwanyu’ which she released in 2019 and was later preceded by a length lockdown in March due to COVID-19 pandemic was all about reconciliation and harmony, a lesson she says was inspired by the 1994 genocide in Rwanda.

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Born in Kenya to Rwandan refugee parents, Diana only moved back to Rwanda when she was 5 years old after being in exile in Uganda during the genocide.

The loss of lives made her think hard on how to cushion communities from such an eventuality in future. In her ‘Iwanyu’ album, she highlights the cultural diversity which brings people together.

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Amazingly, she has highlighted different musical traditions and infused them with Kinyarwada, French and English – three languages widely spoken in Rwanda. Her sole intent with ‘Iwanyu’ was to bring harmony and teach people the beauty of cultural diversity which lacked two decades ago leading to the genocide which claimed more than 800,000 lives.

‘Iwanyu’ was produced in Belgium where she found “the perfect cultural diversity” having travelled all over the world.