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To Maini, Hope in Swahili, is a unique refugee-led music and arts festival in Salaika refugee camp, Malawi.

This festival comes to bring joy and to relieve the stress and just help people see life feeling more positive and life away.

It provides a space to celebrate the artistic skills and

organizational talents of an increasingly marginalized refugee community,

challenging narratives around migration.

It has created a self-sufficiency to the people.

They are moving that mentality of seeing themselves labour and refugees. They're having a sense of being human, equal than other people.

Against considerable odds, they've created the largest festival in Malawi with over 50,000

people attending and over 115 artists performing in 2023.

Okay because now there's a poet from DRC, another one's from Malawi, another one's from Rwanda,

and they're creating art that can change the world, that can bridge these colonial borders and become one. Welcome to the documentary from the BBC World Service with me Ben Arogundadi.

Zalika camp was built in 1994 in Doha, about an hour from Lelongway, the capital of Malawi,

to house thousands of people escaping violence in Rwanda, Burundi and the Democratic Republic of Congo,

and smaller communities of people seeking refuge from Ethiopia and Somalia.

Our goal is to promote and support the social, cultural and economic inclusion of refugees in Malawi using

art and culture as a tool.

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