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Anyone keen to put a smile on their face is going to love this.
In order to put a spotlight on women’s rights, the United Nations initiative The Global Goals has remade the popular Spice Girls song Wannabe.
It features women from all over the world dancing and lip synching along to the hit 1996 song while telling the world what they “really really want”, which includes things like an end to violence against girls, quality education, an end to child marriage, and equal pay.
And what’s better is that a segment of it was shot in Cape Town and stars our very own hip-hop star Gigi LaMayne and Afro-pop and neo-soul star Moneoa Moshesh. Other stars include Seyi Shay from Nigeria, Bollywood actress Jacqueline Fernandez from Sri Lanka, M.O. from the UK, Taylor Hatala from Canada and Larsen Thompson from the USA.
"We shot our segment about a month ago in a township called Thembalethu in Cape Town. Even though our part is short it was grueling. We had a whole day of rehearsals and a whole day of shooting," says hip-hop star Gigi LaMayne.
The four-time SA Hip-Hop Awards winning star, who also set Twitter alight this year for being the top Wits media studies student in her year, is very happy about doing a project that lines up with her values.
"I'm happy I got a shining moment in the video. It's also all about female empowerment, which I hold very close to my heart. As a female artists in the very male-dominated hip-hop space I'm all about showing people that women can do things just as well as men."
The campaign urges women to use the hashtag #WhatIReallyReallyWant to tell the UN what they really need.
“In 2015 world leaders promised to put girls and women first when they signed up to the Sustainable Development Goals to end poverty, fix climate change and tackle inequalities.
“Girls and women are disproportionately affected by these challenges and are key to building resilient communities to withstand them. That’s why we need to ensure World Leaders and the Secretary General of the United Nations listen to the voices of girls and women and put them first in policies and plans.
“2016 is our chance to use our collective power and tell world leaders what we really really want for girls and women,” says Global Goals.
They promise to get these messages to world leaders at the UN in September.
Now that’s something we can get behind.
Check out more of the campaign at globalgoals.org
