a lot of files give rise to don't really have to go see starts january 27th on the hello and welcome to another episode of the 77 percent. sho, my name is he just to money. and this week we are coming to you from the various capital monrovia on this we very specialist. so we explore the coastal capital together and find out what makes librarian you take. here's what we have prepared for you. we meet the pilots who made a very transatlantic trip, aboard a single engine plane would find out why so many young people a timing to this synthetic drugs course and in our cheated street debates. and it was very, very seated. we have some controversial views about the role of women in liberia

and who begin right here in the heart of the capital and one to 1000000 people. now, despite liberia being one of only 2 countries to not stuff of colonialism in africa is to hold some of the porous populations on us. and right now i'm about to try and make sense of why the situation is so dia for young people. that's cool. the one real via is a beautiful city on a stunning peninsula in west africa. however, despite its natural beauty, it's one of the least developed countries in the world due to years of civil war and the bullet that makes the to want to learn more about monrovia. so we need to come around, i read you present a to busting markets. one of the best places to chat about the economy. oh gosh. i want to get it because it's something that i will never find anywhere else. and

noel. yeah, i think so. i mean, who have a wallet, that's a $100.00 notes. come on now you can give me a disco and why is the state of the economy the way it's is, you know, library has been independent for many, many years, many decades. and one might think, wow, and this should be the example for the rest of africa. yeah, so on, i mean the old as republic. um we've had some problems. you've had the civil war for 2 years. a one civil undergrad, so we had it for allow we've had the pool, novice and a couple of rough shown. you know, a, i mean, is always in a few questions. i mean, i can't imagine how to survive all of that. you know, you said, well, ebola corona, i know we have an economic crisis here. how does it affect your society, particularly women? a lot. um, so you know, um if you look at this market, we looked at where we spent a lot of the sellers. you see that women and a lot of them. um, so this is because, um, a lot of the public,

this is the offices, the jobs and the offices, and big jobs. i'm on the z off, let's say the read to z, i always demand out, you know, the always the ones in the offices, either that's women so much um and i don't think is because of the less the qualification. i think a lot of women are qualified. a lot of them, i think we whole it is a lot of i have high school graduates women significantly under represented in all areas and fees, high levels of gender inequality, which is comfortable to countries like a funny son. and he t, the number of men holding a uni, visits degree, is twice as high as that to women. even when women study, they often struggle to find employment and may end up working in jobs like those in this market. we're almost at the end of our shopping trip, actually at the end, but i know you were explaining to me the role of women in this society. how would

you describe it? would you say the women generally empowered here? um no. is not that way. i think um the women i nationalized even in the legislature is fine women slicing women rising, but yet i'm so against am will follow. it's really hard for them. well, fact to thank you so much for your time this morning. i really appreciate it. yeah . and on that topic of women, that's actually where we're headed right now. we've got a group of young liberians and we want to find out from them. what exactly is the role of women in this culture that's coming up when i was 50 bates? but 1st, i'm going to change to answer this question because of some young people at the beach club outside monrovia, preparing for a st debates is always challenging and requires a big crew. and of course, panelists with opposing views. yeah, they switch you. right. i know there's a way,

some route on the thing. nice to be nice to wish you. the most important thing with these to be to just yourself and the to hello and welcome back to the 77 percent strict debate this week. we are a library of the capital of monrovia. now you might be familiar with the expression, strong african woman in this country. they suddenly having had a female president, elizabeth johnson. but this strength in women is sometimes discouraged when he comes through a magic relationship, particularly in the applicant context. and today we want to find out why,

who better to accept this question for me that some late periods. and we're going to start with the couple on the panel. we have a couple this so loved up austin insurance. hello. thanks for joining us. so let's start with the basic question of your day to day when you wake up in the morning giving me a little clue about who does what in the morning, what's your morning routine, like since how you're really signing, let me start. well, thank you. um in the morning i wake up around 55 like 530 a get my kid ready for school wide. he's dead getting ready for work. okay. so would you say that your domestic responsibilities sort of equally split between the 2 of you? yeah, it is. yeah, physically i'm able to wake up early morning and get hot water for the kids. i'm able to be beeping the little girl while she has to be pairing corvette or something. so yeah, i think is good and i enjoy doing you abraham, where are you? i know that to have a biblical name and also an old fashion stand on the concept of equality and

relationships. tell me a little bit about that. for me. i come with the african culture background and they are. ruth described to me both men and women. i believe that most of the 1st choices in our african context, uh uh, the responsibility of the women, but they make them be of help. so let me tell you, i'm laughing because the women behind me, i'm really sighing you stuff to something then. yeah, i would, i would like you to complete it please. so you started by telling me women's responsibilities in their relationship. i had turned over to one. do all the health choice? know i said, most of the res, restore most of the 1st choice is the woman's responsibilities. so what does the man do then? you know, i will i be when setting is the head of the home he's responsible to, to, to provide for the home. okay. tell me what you're thinking. always the female is

a feminist and an activist. yeah. knowing that liberia was set on the basis of peach. iraqi just explains why they are a no saying these different things. but when you look at who said those rules, who's who give the responsibilities of a woman take in charge of the firm and doing the choices, you would know that the men said those rules and wish we'd be lead for very bias, right? because women's potentially is way be your own. just taken care of who i want to hear from some people at the back, right. let me get some reactions come closer to me please. i'm gonna try to listen to this nice. then it gives the usual room and having you go right to remain home and woman was based on mississippi and nobody's still happy like that. the only reason why we've had a few minutes loving women the i to visit it because of the other. why that edition . okay, so quick question. i'm a woman here who's doing this job of asking questions, and moderating. i would say i'm independent. does that bother you?

yeah, it. well ma'am, you know, african culture must not be dependent. what if i told you that in my culture, women actually the heads of the home by so culture in our gods and that was said yeah, in the back onto the women us know something to assist. ok. so let me come back to the couple of the even holding hands. let me tell you we are feeling so single today on this this. so when you hear some of these a sessions, i can imagine that there must also be people in your family who also have quote, similar views. you committed this, this, the letters you work up and you know, wash the dishes, you're the man. you work up just get ready for work and move on, you know, and then you start to follow that. i don't get a why as you do that. so we're going to alimony. and what is the shop people? is that the moon you as a me, you benefit a lot if those, the quality in the who your mother goes to visit you and dentist,

easy. washington dirty clothes. she's like, why is my phone rousing very close? let me hear from my dealing for a 2nd because we haven't spoken to her. you just want to investigate this idea of the head of a home because because no one has talked about partnerships in the contemporary. well that's we live in today. do we still need that classical head of a home? well, i have no interesting relationship anymore. it is because of what i went through when i was a relationship. so i had to quit 2019 because uh i had an a deal save pregnant. well why that protective? and he was very abusive. so i went to it. i held my god like king. i have a look up in the morning and what so what sucks for bucks are in what it will be. i mean, we have to be 33. 033-3320 i need to understand is what do you mean? put stokes. but what, what, what, what helps him dress up in the morning, like

a child was what i went extra martin, you know, helping to my relationship. okay. and so i have a question for you as he was treating him as a king, as he was saying, which by the way, up salute lee. was he treating you as a queen as well? he was abusive. he was really abusive. so he has actually the mid mutual lost interest in having relationship. and when i see people are like, you know, quite pause and you know, i feel like they're not being true to each other. yeah. okay. so obviously not all relationships which have that dynamic will end up in abuse. yeah, let's just be clear about that. however, it can, because these a power dynamic that has not been addressed. so how do you, how do you navigate this? so for me, people always put or have a negative connotation. when it comes to head,

are we not saying that the woman should be the one to address you is not, is that it will most responsibility to address you. if that is happening, that's abuse. knowing your rules is different from being abuse, but i'm saying that the ascribe for men and women who, who are done very clearly. okay. i mean that's your position and that's perfectly fine. we've had many things, right? including the traditional is to think that we mentioned even be educated. let me hear from, oh, i am so afraid to bring the microphone to you. but let's say you say your point is a need that we go back to our tradition. uh, we must have missed it, but it was good to not have to do everything. and that is why we haven't been in that as i've had assuming this and that it's all about why you want edit, cuz now we may just find a new home. okay, so let me just, are you working for example, and you must have female bosses. how do you respond to that?

oh or hasn't a bus mean a female is going to come to get it because i really don't see her being submissive . sometimes she just, she just was point, know how to man, and that is the high supposed to be. so what am i being a bus? it can be from abusive to me. oh, okay i, i honestly cannot believe that i am hearing these words in 2023 but but, but i mean you'll, you'll, you'll view points, let me get one last one here. well, with me, i am power one. yeah. etiquette telling me i learned this aside to become better because come on with care of children in our rooms for 9 months, which is huge. so i mean, we're on dustin relationship because we've gone with them for 9 months when they come outside and we've been with them, it even be a hot spot in the old. we sometimes think of them as babies. yeah, alpha as boss has already come on the baby's man to support women, then we can be able to be home and society better. all right,

normally at this point of the debate, i would be asking people for solutions. but after hearing all the diverse opinions, i'm not sure that there is such a thing as solutions. we've started with a couple i'd like to end with them. we've had so many view points here. do you think that the kind of relationship that the 2 of you have with some people might see us aspirational is on the threats that we woke up in the morning as a man and getting ready for work? when you stand before the mirror, jesse a human being, when you see your wife see a human being, she'd hurt our way. men. you are going to be happy. if you bring that woman to the equal point, you are going to be happy because we are just equal and we have this agreement on audius'. and we're sure when or who is the head, the best, the idea that we're pushing, well, which is a better idea. we go about that. thank you. that is a beautiful place to rock this debates. we have had some very controversial remarks today, but also what

a nice way to wrap it up. think 1st and foremost of your partner as human the, the morning after the street debates in monroe via i'm still preoccupied with the topic compared to my hotel and they will be one, robi, a seems more conservative. unfortunately, the issue of equality will continue to be heavy in my mind for a long time as we minutes to have a long way to go before we can achieve true equality. but right now, my focus is on an incredible past, and we've just learned about so something interesting about the young lady here in the action is still using facebook is not incredible, and that's exactly where we found the story of the young e. here's the one we're hoping to meet at the airport just now. he's a librarian based in b. u with a pilots who has made an insane journey across the atlantic. when a single engine clay, i'm a young, the flu from maryland, usa to liberia. you made several stops along the way, including canada, greenland,

iceland, u. k. friends, speed morocco more retain the semi go and see really on. finally, on november 23rd. he arrived in liberia where he was welcomed as a hero. contests though not too long ago, and we can't wait to hear what inspires him and why he even decided to do that. that's in good. we meet him and he spends at the old one rosier f. what's an inspiration for young life periods? is it to on the to say, oh wow, he's fans have a gift for him. i've been looking for you. well, thank you so much. okay. a model of his aircraft. someone has to do something to inspire. the younger dies is spinning. the story of his journey has become a hot topic. you monrovia, and by the way, did you have to fly alone the whole time i had to that must have been very lonely. um, i mean this option, so it's no longer something i enjoy doing. yeah. okay. do you have

a special name for your place as far as in nancy? see met 1st miller, c. oh, nice to meet you. fancy. nancy. nancy, nancy is in 1976 beechcraft sundown that cost him around $70000.00 when he purchased it in 2001 the one of the most concerning aspects of his trip was the high cost of fuel the i t engineer had to make a few sacrifices to finances. jenny, i'm a motor sport, kind of guy. i love to go 5 routing motorcycle and i got disney fine t t r. and i'm sitting looking at it. i'm like, this is an expensive trip. i got to sell this car. it was the hardest thing to do.

this my dream cock i saw you were then they can help build up another kids to in. i mean, it sounds to me like it's really important to you the to inspire people here and you show them that it's possible. why is that in africa, if we see cortez taking place, i know is in other countries, in my mindset is as we capable as well from the library, we are capable, people was able and we have smart people. we can make things happen. i've not still have some fuel left and he offers me a special surprise. we're back to going off like the cold fields exceptionally cramped, the narrow ceiling. loud noises in numerous instruments. make it hard to believe that i've not traveled across 3 continents in this tiny cap. in the

book, the view outside is exceptional. did you get scared at any point? i flew in temperature or negative 12 degrees fairly high, and there was a wall of close. i'm talking like trip typically like more. i'm sitting there going to, this is not good. there's nothing you didn't do, you can turn around me a way, you know, you don't have that much the so i just kept pushing. yeah. all right, thank you very much. 6 it's so beautiful up there. i have to agree with you. i really do and definitely needs to see that. and guys, i promise you, you will not appreciate if, if it's a, from any better view than that. i think the good. okay, maybe let's go grab

a copy now. the, the residence of monrovia craves success stories. while the city is stunningly beautiful when viewed from above, many young people remain unemployed on the ground and end up in the less glamorous discount. sol solved and seeing some incredible stories coming off to one roba. but the truth is that there is a drug here which cause ravaged some of its use kush bits of sympathetic drug was to originate and co position is still not fully understood. but it's become a popular drug for distribution to youth who have nothing to look forward to that. so we're going to speak to some of them to understand why that interest rate and what it means because the sites on the i'm told these ruins house at least 300 people. almost everyone here smokes goose

for about 4 years now. it's been severely affecting, they'd be as useful to these it's hard to predict some less of what i witnessing because it's not anything that i've ever experienced before. every room with a 2 x m $2.00 and $3.00, and i'm fissions. and this prison, as of reality crush like crack, delivers a brief yet powerful high wind smoke. the sensation quickly fades leaving the use a in a kind of home. i mean, william cooper, who's smoking a single penny to push for $0.50. yes, we want to do some di, you know, in mid june forego, but advised you to be able to forget what a warranty. i don't think i've been bothering you. so when did this log itself was a time when you're waiting to get? it's already body's going do where you see or get bonded street. the one in to get

saw a damn file, so to consume the individuals addicted to drugs in this area referred to as so goes a to them a came to zombies. the ruins also shelter many women to support the drug habits. some of them engage in commercial sex work. i've seen a few women here who of pregnancy, but what happened is when the bus will get breath said it just, some people get ready to die and it was scanned. if it dangerous here for u. s. government. oh, you take the money and did you have the free run or when it was going to give you the money? does that happen to you? yeah, the yeah. all right, thank you. and the conditions here characterized by re drug abuse, violence and drug test disease are shocking and heartbreaking. people here result

to various means to earn money, some so food, while others work at the beach plumbing concrete. drug addiction has incapacitated menu. the recently, cuba close has claimed the lives of 2 residents. i mean it's this too low cost raising funds to support the affected you. how did it become such a penetrative drug in may be? why do you think the government has been slow to respond? i think the reason is, is that some of the very gone officials go, i thought of this then go drugs, you know about it. and then the drug dealing. yeah, some of the bottom is also evolved into the drug view. so they would not want to put the view it out to you. yeah. if they use a bare with the goal, not really nothing many. and that's the politicians are

benefiting from drug trafficking. a claim we hear from human resources and planned to investigate the re, the reason that i was so low of simulate was involved. well, if i don't have morning known, i can now go who will be like, oh, loving things. but when i agree, okay, so our really leg for that to help the top did that in the fall. and i can begin to help to this addition to guys. thank you so much for attending the exam, the opportunities in this house and the people you need to leave me both stunned and hydro can it's a stuck reminder of how society can neglected soon. these individuals cannot overcome their challenges without support.

the would that drop. so a deep dive into monrovia, it's absolutely gorgeous. a real gym in west africa, right on the atlantic. it's got this rich, eventful history, intertwined with numerous challenges. yet there remains a strong sense of hope for a better future within nearly 600 kilometer coastline. monrovia definition offers many spots to relax like this one. and that's where we're wrapping up this special edition of what 77 percent show. we hope you enjoy this. you can always see more of us on youtube is to ground or take talk. and as usual, we're leaving you with come on save as we now have big to not

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