South Africa-based Zimbabwean climate change activist Munya Jeranyama, popularly known as Munya Touch, has expanded his creative portfolio into music, adding to his work in literature, blogging, poetry and advocacy.
His EP, Nature’s Call to Action, aligns with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 13 and features tracks such as Our Actions, Tomorrow Depends On Today, How?, Zvanyanya, Nkosi and An Ecological Song.
Jeranyama said Sustainable Development Goal 13 calls for urgent action to combat climate change and its impacts. It focuses on strengthening resilience to climate-related hazards, integrating sustainability measures into national policies, and improving education and capacity for mitigation and adaptation.
“As a way to celebrate my birthday this year, I decided to release an EP titled Nature’s Call To Action, using United Nations SDG 13 as the framework for the tracks, as it calls for urgent climate action.
“The EP includes eco-poems and eco-songs. For the eco-songs, I worked with artificial intelligence in producing them, making me one of the few eco-artists in the world to use AI to create eco-songs that raise awareness about climate change through music,” he said.
In addition to running a climate change blog for nearly a year titled Dear African Child, Jeranyama said he found it fitting to combine music and poetry to amplify awareness around climate change. Recently, he was invited to present his poem Our Actions at the Presidential Climate Commission Roundtable in Johannesburg, South Africa, on February 2.
“Of the three eco-poems on the EP, I would say they all stand out to me because Our Actions reminds people that our activities are contributing to the extreme weather patterns we are experiencing, while How? and Tomorrow Depends On Today encourage people to take better care of nature and their surroundings.
“For the eco-songs, I was trying to create groovy music while raising awareness about climate change. The EP will be available on all digital streaming platforms from February 22, and I encourage everyone to stream it as part of celebrating my birthday,” he added.
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Jeranyama said widespread misunderstandings about changing weather patterns motivated him to produce the EP as a way of influencing people’s actions against climate change. In another milestone, he was selected last year to be part of the CNN Academy Fellowship.
“I was selected as a fellow because of my climate change blog, Dear African Child, which serves as an open letter to African communities and others beyond the continent, sharing advice on how we can better care for our environment and mitigate climate change. I am set to join the other CNN Fellows in Dublin, Ireland, in 2026,” he said.
Through Nature’s Call to Action, Munya Touch positions music not just as entertainment, but as an educational and advocacy tool. By merging eco-poetry, artificial intelligence and contemporary sound, he is crafting a creative response to one of the world’s most urgent challenges and inviting listeners to be part of the solution.
