Lawrence Ochieng Ouko

LARRY DWAYNE SHORT BIO. Larry Dwayne is a versatile and diverse Hip-hop artist, an Environmentalist, Climate activist, Entrepreneur. and a human rights activist born and raised in Kenya who uses music to create awareness about the degrading state of the environment to educate the masses about the importance of taking care of the environment for a better green future. Larry Dwayne has a band that he plays with known as Everyone for environment conservation band, Larry Dwayne has also received two international awards recognizing him for media for environment awareness creation with his music. His awards include the Inua awards for leader of the decade 2025 in East Africa, Eurofishion award (from an international organization known as World Fish Migration foundation) which advocates for free clean flowing rivers full of fish all around Europe and the whole world and the award was presented to him by the Cs for water and irrigation year ending 2022 Hon Mrs. Sicily Kariuki and the other award from Icpac/Igad and he was awarded for his climate change song. Attaching a course to his music has been of so much importance because it gave his music a legitimate reason and purpose to serve humanity, apart from making leisure music. Larry Dwayne has also taken part in a number of restoration programs in the country and he was part of the youth who participated in the cleanup of Nairobi River in the year 2019-2020 during the river restoration program initiated by the Mazingira Yetu organization which was funded by the government of Kenya. After the completion of the first phase, Larry Dwayne was recognized with a river clean up certificate and it legitimized him officially to be able to clean up any type of river. In the year 2020 Larry Dwayne came up with his own initiative dubbed ‘adopt a river’ whose aim was to encourage the communities living along the river to adopt different sections of Nairobi river in order to have a sustainable way of having a clean river consistently. Larry Dwayne joined Mtaa Safi initiative in the year 2020 and they have been pushing the restoration agenda vocally and actively. I am sumbmitting my entrance because I trust that such platforms contribute a lot in my career in terms of network and connections with other key industry players as well as bringing authenticity in my art through being recognized with legitimate institutions like wezesha.