PIMP MY AID WORKER

OUR VISION:  A WORLD WHERE REAL COMPASSION INCLUDES A SENSE OF REAL EQUALITY, WHERE SERIOUSNESS OF PURPOSE INCLUDES A SENSE OF HUMOUR, WHERE GENEROSITY INCLUDES MORAL CLARITY, WHERE THE BLACK AID BACK AND WHITE’S NOT UPTIGHT, WHERE WE TAKE EACH OTHER SERIOUSLY AND SMILE AT EACH OTHER’S PREJUDICES – AS WE MOVE TOGETHER AS ONE.

PIMP MY AID WORKER is more than just a song, video and fashion show – it’s the seeds of a new philosophy. In the way the developing world is usually depicted in the media and aid agencies’ promotional campaigns, poor brown people dominate the stage. PMAW would like, for once, to put in the spotlight those who are behind the wheels of the ever-rolling aid caravans, those refugees from a life in boredom, those whose lancets of idealism are tested against the windmills of reality every day of the year: the aid worker.

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Director and Producer: Morten Traavik 

Assistant director: Sissel M Bergh 

Line Producer: Milumbe Haimbe 

Cinematographers: Martin Libskov Bruun & Antonnio C Katakwe 

B-photo: Sissel M Bergh 

Editor: Kathrine Granlund / Snöball Film Post-production: Snöball Film 

Filmed on location in Lusaka, Zambia July 2010

Song written and composed by: Kalinosi C Mutale/Chama Kabumbu/ Kizito Like/ Morten Traavik 

Produced and engineered by Kizito Like

Recorded at: Evelyn Hone, Lusaka, Zambia July 2010 

Mixed by Jørgen Træen and Kjetil T. Møster at Duper, Bergen, Norway 

Coordinators: Sissel M. Bergh and Mia Habib.

Performed by: Bass guitar: Nzovwa Chambaka, Drums: Peter Kamana, Lead guitar: Innocent M. Mutemwa, Keyboards: Lazarus Muma, Additional guitar: Morten Traavik.

Vocals (in order of appearance): Uncle Henry (Henry Silwimba), Angela Nyirenda ,Teddy Zondi, Gideon Phiri, Alice Chuma, Lyambi Ngulube, Kaporoots (Emmanuel Kapotwe), Mozegater, Gilbert Kaluba, King David, Donald Muma, Lucy Phiri, Humphery K. Lubumbe and Nkumbu Chipeso.

Additional vocals: Fostina Chitalu, Chama Kabumbu, Petronella Longwani, Kalinosi C. Mutale and Rainbow (Laulin Mutale).

Special guests: Alice Chuma, Angela Nyirenda, Mozegater and King David