{"id":244592,"date":"2026-09-17T00:00:40","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-25-emerging-music-creatives-and-professionals-unveiled-for-the-nairobi-edition-of-swift-academy\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T00:00:40","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T22:00:40","slug":"kenya-25-emerging-music-creatives-and-professionals-unveiled-for-the-nairobi-edition-of-swift-academy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-25-emerging-music-creatives-and-professionals-unveiled-for-the-nairobi-edition-of-swift-academy\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: 25 Emerging Music Creatives and Professionals Unveiled for the Nairobi Edition of Swift Academy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Twenty-five emerging music creatives and professionals have been unveiled for the Nairobi edition of Swift Academy, the pan-African talent development platform created by Martell and curated by Africa House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The cohort was introduced at an industry mixer in Nairobi, bringing together the selected Swift Academy participants,mentors and figures from across the music and creative industries as the programme moves into its first phase of activity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"63\">Over the coming weeks, participants will take part in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202609160419.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-five emerging music creatives and professionals have been unveiled for the Nairobi edition of Swift Academy, the pan-African talent development platform created by Martell and curated by Africa House. The cohort was introduced at an industry mixer in Nairobi, bringing together the selected Swift Academy participants,mentors and figures from across the music and creative industries [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":244593,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[8197,258,256,36043,11246,9392,4688,430,6662,259,257,19820,254,24640,16326],"class_list":["post-244592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-academy","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-creatives","tag-edition","tag-emerging","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-music","tag-nairobi","tag-news","tag-professionals","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swift","tag-unveiled"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244592","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244592"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244592\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244592"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244592"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244592"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}