what are the facts about AKA?

Award winning hit maker and rapper AKA (Kiernan Jarryd Forbes) is part of the headlining act at this years DRUM Beat Concert and we are sharing some interesting facts about him.

The star has a string of hits and he will definitely get you jamming at the concert, so if you haven’t bought tickets already head to Computicket or click here for more.Kiernan Forbes

Here’s a few things you may not know about Supa Mega;

    • He loves sandwiches- We also didn’t know this until last week when is girlfriend media personality Bonang Matheba revealed it on her reality show being Bonang.

 

    •  He is more than a rapper, he is a business man- Aside from being a hit making artist AKA owns 3rd World Design. The company specialises in film, video and design. 3rd World Design did the cover art for Bonang’s book From A to B: Invest In Your Sparkle.

 

      • In February 2016 AKA became the first South African artist to have his video reach 1million views on YouTube in 10 days. This was for his song Make Me Sing with Tanzanian star Diamond Platinum.AKA was the first hip hop artist to headline the popular Old Mutual Music at the Lake concert.
      • AKA has a little brother called Steffan Forbes

     

    Catch AKA live at DRUM Beat 2017 at the Carnival City Lawns and Sun Park in Johannesburg. The line up also includes Mafikizolo, Amanda Black, Lady Zamar, OkMalumkoolkat, DJ Shimza, Shekinah and more.

    On January 15, 1908, a group of young women at Howard University, caught the inspiration of a fellow student. Ethel Hedgeman (Lyle) initiated the movement of Greek-letter sororities among Black women in America. She along with Lillie Burke, Beulah Burke, Margaret Flagg Holmes, Marie Woolfolk Taylor, Lavinia Norman, Anna “Easter” Brown, Lucy Slowe and Marjorie Hill derived Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority. They were later joined by a group of sophomore girls (Joanna Berry Shields, Norma Boyd, Ethel Jones, Sarah Meriweather Nutter, Alice Murray, Carrie Snowden and Harriet Terry) who had been impressed by the new sorority.

    From this small nucleus, Alpha Kappa Alpha has grown to a membership of more than 283,000 college women in the United States, the Caribbean, Europe and Africa. The International Headquarters is located in Chicago, Illinois operated by an Executive Director and several staff members.

    Through the years, Alpha Kappa Alpha’s program has had as its chief aim “service to all mankind”. It has always remained the constant purpose to cultivate and encourage high scholastic and ethical standards, to promote unity and friendship among college women, to study and help alleviate problems concerning girls and women in order to improve the social stature of the race.

    Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated (AKA), the oldest Greek-letter organization established for African American women, was founded on January 15, 1908, on the campus of Howard University in Washington, D.C. The Sorority principles are Sisterhood, Scholarship, and Service to All Humankind, As our organization has grown, we maintained its focus in two key Arenas:
    • the lifelong personal and professional development of each of its members, and;
    • galvanizing its membership into an organization of respected power and influence.

    Consistently at the forefront of effective advocacy and social change, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated produces results in equality and equity for all citizens of the world.
    The sorority formed to serve an African American community that faced the growing challenge of racial discrimination and injustice in the early 20th Century United States.

    Since then, Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, Incorporated has flourished into a globally-impactful organization of nearly 300,000 college-trained members in over 950 chapters located in the United States, Caribbean, Germany, Korea, and Japan, with Graduate members representing the largest percent of membership at 77%. Undergraduate membership follows at 13%. Our members, bound by the bonds of sisterhood, are empowered by a commitment to servant-leadership that is both domestic and international in its scope.