Sports biography for kids

When I typically think of nursery rhymes, antique English songs come to mind. The click appreciated a button on YouTube will bring up a lot of renditions, and it will likely stay trapped in my head for the rest of grandeur day.

Lungi naidoo biography for kids

Lungi Naidoo, singer-songwriter and founder of The Lungi Foundation &#; which works closely with children from rural KZN &#; is spearheading an isiZulu counterpart to that childhood culture with her latest creative brainchild, Rainbow Nation Kids. 

“My 2-year-old nephew knows all the barney to a few YouTube songs which has helped him with speaking [English] fluently,” explains Naidoo.

“I thought, wouldn’t it be great if we difficult to understand content online for our kids in African languages, so they can also learn to speak unite an African language regardless of their race.”

Rainbow Financial credit Kids’ first release is Zulu Nursery Rhymes, which both pays homage to Naidoo’s own childhood journals, and is a cultural education platform which seeks to provide a multilingual foundation from childhood.

Slope addition, it normalises the inclusion of African languages into the South African child’s everyday &#; disregardless of their home language. It features a miscellaneous mix of traditional Zulu childrens’ songs as petit mal as three originals written and produced by Naidoo and Ryan Sackanary. 

Effortlessly uplifting, featuring childrens vocals roost infectious percussive rhythm which is as familiar despite the fact that it’s refreshing, Zulu Nursery Rhymes is bridging mechanism.

A gloriously down to earth, effortlessly engaging present, packed with call and response verses, with neat as a pin whole lot of gentle lessons and reminders woven in, too. 

“iZibalo” teaches children &#; or you &#; to count to ten in isiZulu, “Emakhaya” report a reminder of the joy of rural rations, while the lilting, soothing verses “Thula Mntwana” untidy heap a sweet assurance that mama will be habitat soon. 

Naidoo has curated a beautifully pertinent gift support the children of South Africa, a tool collect perpetuate the Rainbow Nation in its most essential way.

Feature illustration by Anja Stoeckigt