for less than america added to the sea and human as well. the us secretary of state my portfolio was ending his visit to the dominican republic when he received a public reprimand from the president of panama, where he started goose 5 nation regional tour days earlier. an angry president called several mino, said that it was intolerable. the deal of the state department life by announcing that his country had agreed to waive fees for us naval ships, transiting the panama canal. you'll find them up on the death of a who stay before you in the world. i express my absolute rejection of continuing to conduct our bilateral relations on the basis of lice and full. so it's at austin . i mean, i'm not confused about panel. rubio insisted that it was absurd for the us to pay fees to transit a pin. now it's applied to protect. yes, and he offered in all of the brand issues. but i respect very much the fact that panama has a process of laws and procedures that they need to follow as it relates to the kind

of a import the permit and canals stories. busy allow them to work through those processes . we intend to bacon amicable. the way our visits were panama canal. aside the main focus of rubio strip was undocumented migration crime and the flow of drugs to the us border. why them all as president but narrative, a lot of i don't agree to accept to migrant. some other countries supporting from the united states and el salvador. as president unable, kelly offered what will be a called an unprecedented migratory agreement. he has agreed to accept for deportation or any illegal alien in the united states. it was a criminal from any nationality. they. i'm as 13, are claim that our and house them in his jail on his final stop attention shifted to the, to, to monitoring and security crisis in the dominican republics, neighboring country hating. based on the time when we bought a bunch of anything, we underscore the importance of establishing through monetary an aide to avoid the

wisdom of a crisis and a possible uncontrollable migration ways that would impact not just the dominican republic, but the united states. we agreed that there's no time to lose local u. c. v. the groove you'll ended his trip by overseeing the us seizure of the venezuelan government plain being held by authorities in the dominican republic. a way of emphasizing that countries that oppose us interested in the region could pay a price to see annually out to 0. so from any pocket, don't forget, of course, uh website. how does that? don't come as much more. all of our top stories including the full out over the panama canal, including trumps sections of the i. c. c. bye for now. the in the human line can do multiple ton appearing for the natural environment,

just parts of the national identity. but despite its negative carbon footprint, global warming threats and slice and light 21 east investigate who tends climate crisis. one out to 0, africa, 54 countries is 1500000000 people in a multitude of traditions, experiences, and realities. so why is mainstream media and our social media feelings at times populated by simplistic given lazy stereotypes? and what is the 2 impacts of these misrepresentation? a lot of these voices, and this is district, the a study by the media impacts project in the us in 2019 found that viewers there were more than twice as likely to see negative rather than positive depictions. of african tv and the most common terms used in relation to africa were social and

political instability, violence, death, corruption, and poverty. but what are people on the continent and in the diaspora, one to hear when the world talks about them before the question to our community. i wonder what to know that because not for africa is welters, africa is under, developed and exploited. as the case of which is continental us, not only by its round resources, but most importantly by the people, africa is limitless. and what the world to know that africa is resilience. africa is resilience. africa is complex. i want to, i want to know that africa is not country africa's the most diverse confidence on the planet with thousands of ethnic groups, thousands of languages. it's a content with 54 nations and over 1400000000 people, full potential. and oh,

differences are what makes the survey africa is the original. today on the stream, our guests will be reclaiming the narrative about africa's past present and sharing their hopes for africa's future. joining us our fuse o d g. a grammy award winning, multiply and selling musician born in the u. k. but it's been a inheritance. locate my cora, executive director of africa know filter and organization working to shift to stereotypical narratives about the continent. inca, i did go k, editor of semaphore africa, which attracts the most important stories and analysis from the continent. and i don't mooney the renowned artist behind africa photo fair and the oddest photo fast . thank you all so much for your time. it's an honor to have you on the show today . i 1st went to ask you o the same thing we asked our community, what words would you like to see used to describe africa fuse can i start with your

yeah, africa's powerful and the biggest contributor to the see today. and then um i think it yes, definitely. let's use this, craig, timothy is an innovation other that was a come to mind, but i think westco ida, your turn. i mean for me as an artist, as it goes inspirational and definitely resilience. okay. to me is actually a census on c f, because the world's greatest on task opportunity. wow, that's very inspirational. and locate a research published by your group africa know filter and consultants, africa practice found that africa could be losing up to $4200000000.00 annually. in interest payments on its loans, primarily due to star,

a typical narratives the dominates global media coverage of the continent. i wanted to ask, why did you decide to put this in economic, measurable terms? and also how did you reach that figure? or let me start with why we did it because i think the reason why was sitting here, i'm sitting here today is because that report has suddenly put this discussion about the actual cost of media stereotypes on the agenda. and the, you know, everybody just thinks the number, the key to put numbers on the table. nobody's really not interested in. it becomes a nebulous thing about storytelling. and we need to change the stories that you know about africa. but once you put numbers to it, i mean $4200000000.00 to educate $12000000.00 children on the concept. every single . yeah. so there's a substantial cost to it. um and you know, finding that figure that was really hard. um, it was done actually buys the convers after practice. and essentially they,

what they did. i mean there's local each one of the essential what they did. we looked at the one thing that every single country in the world get covered at that's when they have elections. so we looked at it actually coverage in about 6 different countries that were different. so it was egypt, south africa, kenya, there was malaysia, thailand and denmark. and we looked at the coverage during the election period and we found time and time again. and it's something we, we know that coverage in africa was just the law was no negative would use, it was like, you do election bind. it's just unusual things that you expect some of the coverage . and you know, we found that so which we know to that, but what we also looked at was the cost of borrowings asking governance the bond yields the interest rates. they pay certain countries like egypt pay as much as if 15 percent said not a country like denmark pay this little is less than one percent. and why there's a risk premium africa has and we will send it as a combination between media sentiment, if it's negative,

it directly impacts the interest rates that countries are charged. so that's kind of how we got the figures to $4200000000.00 to be extracted agent out across, you know, the content. but again, is just the cost of immediate contribution. there are lots of other factors. we don't say need your sodium responsible. so i, i don't want to waste thinking back to on, on me just because we completed with the important role. but there is a contribution and $4200000000.00. oh yeah, it's important. clarify, obviously it's, it's not only the media, but it's the concrete side of that stereotype. in terms of attempting to break these perpetuating stereotypes, fuse you actually made headlines when you turn down an invitation to join the revamp of the band. a track do they know it's christmas? you didn't just turned down the invitation, you actually released a response track. let's take a look. everything over to the comment to advertise

the in the previous interactions to said, we know when it's christmas is more than a song is a statement. can you tell us more about how it came about and why you chose not to participate in the band? a previous so i grew up in london, i did a 2nd just going to london and going on for london. those as a perception of how people see that people are not just black people or so back african. um and you know, i found out very, you know, the hard way as a child. that although i was so proud of being gone in being african in school, the people didn't see it that way because i grew up and gone and was by the time. ready is good and gone as i was super proud of a you know, my culture,

but i something come back to london to continue my education. and i realize that the kids would always law for my country or law for the continent. whenever anything you know is, comes on tv to do with africa. it was so negative that would the african kids started to pretend to be kind of being, you know, and, and every time i told the story, africans in africa usually shot to head is. but this is, this was my reality, this is our reality. and that you can search and all the tv and then seeing a band aid, you know, on the screen i fatality made a lot sense to me why the kids with respect to us from any made me disconnect with, with my culture and who i am. so for me, as i got older and white and so you know, making music, i made it my emission to make sure that that child a goes to school does not disconnect to food. they odd. you know, there's nothing either good, know who some than a child happened to pretend to be somebody else we've gone through our children

don't need to go to it. so for me, i've made to my emission to realign how the world sees us and how africans see and feel about themselves. so for me, making that, you know, we know this christmas was not just live in a world, know that you know, the initiatives, lab, band aid have really destroyed our collective identity of and called a try. but also it's about us, we, you know, reclaiming on narrative of natural depending on the story. and that's why i made my own song to kind of to, to a fun who we are, african as well. and reclaiming pride as well. right. i guess, i guess you're, you're from, if you open up the country the, the original band aid was created to raise funds for 40 years on here we are talking about the impact of the way you portrayed africa. also, as fuser said, because that campaign made use of very particular visuals in your work as the photo journalist and when you work with young photographers on the continent,

and do you see a difference in the way? so you and your students for tray is jo pierre versus how if you will please per trade in, in band a aid. why is that and, and what is the impact? i mean, the main reason why they got into photography was really because of the images of the eighty's, the video pet during the famine. and you know, this was something that i've understood that often, you know, living abroad. i think everyone can share the same sentiments. you know, when you tell them you're from africa, are you from ethiopia, there are clear cliches that have been pushed in the media. so for me, uh, the basis of everything that i do has been to re shift to this and to educate new image makers because as many of us know, advertise a complex place as not just one story, a one thing. so for me, uh, education is really the foundation of a change in that narrative and i've done many interviews and done, you know,

different activities as it relates to creating, you know, photographers that are telling our own story. and i believe that a lot of the times, especially in our countries, when we talk about photography or the creative sector, it's often not taken seriously, but the impact is actually resonates globally. and i think in the world that we live in where we're consuming the most amount of images, this is why social media is play such an important role and connecting us with the world that we didn't have when i started photography. so for this, when we not only talking about these, he won't be able to also talk in various parts of the continent. i think the key focus is not just looking at how others are portraying us, but also the access that we have to protect ourselves. and a lot of this requires also and then from our governments and the price, you know, having better educational institutions. because at the end of the day, we're talking about media and communication, which does have economic implications, o l test on social media. and i'm gonna ask you guys about it a little later in the show,

but inca staying with mainstream media. and let's say that way as an editor you, you make news decisions every day. and you wrote about the fact that african use papers and news rooms often see africa through the lens of international outlets and news. why do you think that happens and what are the implications? what is the impact bag? okay, so i mean, i mean, i think the, the issue is the same across the board globally, which is that the media business everywhere is struggling to some extent. and obviously in the wealthy countries, all countries that have those of these global media giants, they have long, long established institutions built out. that's what's a job journalist and infrastructure across the wells, particularly in the countries that they are most focused on the in b,

2 in the west, and certain parts of the middle east or something other regions. and in africa, that has not be that much of best, that what this means is that there are fewer stories told the fuel stories told about africa means that the stories that end up getting to the front page of the biggest news organizations tend to be the ones about the latest dramatic price. this leaves us uh no conflict uh. busy let's see, so what, what have you. um you could argue that it comes from a place of carried huts in actual fact the impact is quite significant in terms of shape in the way the world sees this very complex. uh, a very large uh, confidence. this is an issue of, um, you know, resources within the industry and we think in the way we structure the media

industry. so we have, you know, what's i like to call a set before a multiple fleet story, right? or you can say better stories, but better stories be a wide variety of stories about a really complex, confident with so many different stories to be told somebody different images to be sold as well. it's interesting. we've seen many young africans taking upon themselves to actually convey different narratives from across the content. for example, marie, hello the creator on how bar in gemma, a social media channel where she talks about all things africa from pop, culture to politics. so explain to us how important it is to counter as their typical narratives and what the response to her content has been. take a look. this is good news, sunday for all the good things going on in africa today. mainstream media tends to frame advocate through the lens of poverty, conflict, and crisis alma overlooking the innovation resilience and vibrant cultures that

define the continent. and these narratives don't to shape perceptions, the impact, economic opportunities, investment decisions, and even how african see themselves. why would you want to invest in something when you have not been shown as potential? that's why using social media to f o 5 positive and balance stories is so important . i started this journey because it was hard for me to find stories about advocates that reflected it's true. complexity and social media gave me the power to tell the stories directly without any gatekeepers. the response has been incredible. my content has parts, department conversations connected, advocates across the day astra. and as an honor to be recognized as one of the $100.00 most influential africans of 2023. to see my work, not just entertain, but educate and inspire as a reminder that people want these stories, they just haven't always had access to. the social media is one of the most powerful tools we have to challenge outdated narratives and share our stories on our own terms. if we don't tell our story, somebody else will,

and they might not always get it right. that's why i do it. i do. and why encourage more people to take control of their own narratives? ok, i thought you were nodding their how important overall has social media played in exposing people to a different african giving voice to africans is actually the, i just want to say marie is that she one is off. how does it after that? so to we we, we also support is i think that's a critical thing, social media in the past, but it's actually the tool that we can control. and i think it is the thing that we defining advocates a certain extent because traditional media to what you tell us saying it's been a little bit it's, it's the step behind it. but social media is, is what we have right now. and it's, it's democratic. everybody has access to it and there's a lot of content creators of people who are making contact because because they try, i think the creative sector is one of the biggest employers of young people because we are, you know, we, they had a golf for a minute. they are young and they,

i'm not the time when you do this. and so i think it's a fantastic opportunity. but i just want to say something about ann marie marie has, has a over 8000000 views. people 8000000 people that are more than some of the largest traditional media. absolutely in the world. mm hm. so she's powerful and we can't underestimate that. so i think social media has a big part to play, but it doesn't absolve traditional media because global decision makers, the people who have the money, the people who make the investment, then not watching marine and the key that the financial times they're looking onto there. they're looking at cnn and we know because we need to watch the global media index. we know the outlet still covering the content in a very one dimensional weight. i think we have to be careful about saying we don't want bad new stories because bad things happen in africa. bad things happens every way. bescedy ya see, you know, that's happening. now. we know this to don, so when not say that conflict doesn't happen,

but what we think we're moving that one dimensional story. and i think a lot of the stories, but i tend not to humanize us. and you're absolutely right in mentioning the power that marie has and the quality of our content as well. and the fact that 8000000 people are actually doing that says a lot about the people in the interest of well actually has because outlet, sometimes what people are not interested, well they actually are fuse. you have taken some very practical steps in terms of investing in the you. so when i ask you about sona school of new africa, can you tell us more about this project and about why you decided that that was an important step. so so in our school of view, africa is an educational platform that teaches african history and language is the ideal. so now is again for us to retain my narrative and tell our story. we also feel like, you know, there's only so much that we can do. so you know what we're doing the works everybody doing is kind of what we're doing on what to, you know, to, to reshape how the world sees us. but there's only so much that we can do about

what we have control of is our kids. right? in the sense that as we have the power to fund lar kids, we have the power to, to, to, to control what happens in our home. so by using the power of technology, you know, it's on the tablets on a phone. what happens to the child learns about what is powerful lead as well come before us, you know, and, and, and, and for them to understand and see themselves, you know, quick representation methods again, accidentally we haven't had, you know, the best representation of africans. so for us, it's about solving that positive representation for kids to understand the power for people to come before them, let them so therefore they are also capable of being powerful now and in the future . it's about putting the next generation to understand that yes, we'll come across problems, but we can also be the solution to our problems. because over the past 400 years,

we've been getting told who we are by their own people. and it's not time for us to be off of to our kids. also we can go the next generation of leaders that's very powerful. and in terms of empowering kids, young people to tell their own story. and we also found it very interesting that what we saw online house on a different tone, many young people reclaiming the narrative, but also using humor to do and take a look. oh sweetie. i didn't mean to confuse you. we genuinely don't have phones enough for it. if that's any time and wants to communicate to uh, family or friends, we just go find the draft close to us. and then we pull the draft open and speak directly into each vehicle and then the other person. so where we are communicating, we also have to be on the other end of i know that you love to hear every message we have passed across to them. and if it's about like fuel main content like this, all we need to do is just the stand in front of the draft. there is a huge the come here as i'm fuming for key on any media. we do record everything we

do. and then we put exposure to edit the content on top it's antenna, which is the wi fi source to applaud the content on the internet. it's on. that's how we actually survive enough to go without cellphones. we actually don't really need cellphones because we have some amazing gy rough and yeah, they do the best job. so yeah, i that, that was pretty brilliant. i mean, i want your take here on, on how brilliant young creators are in terms of shifting the narrative, shifting the tone and engaging even more people. i mean, i've been teaching for quite some time in different parts of africa and you know, uh, the most inspirational thing for me is to see, you know, a lot of the young photographers creating amazing work and you know, leaving for the motivation why started africa photos there was not only to educate photographers and to showcase their work, but also to teach the community of what our stories look like,

what images from other parts of the world looks like. and, you know, our ultimate goal is really to push the images into the international market and push talented to international market. at social media has been that tool that everyone is sharing their story and their content. but again, you know, as everyone was mentioning is that everyone is still looking at the international media and, and again, the power of social media in this, um, and the power of the use, i would say, i mean 60 percent of the confidence population is under the age of $25.00, and that says a lot about the future and the prospect right um on the ass, i wanted each one of you to give me 2 sentences about how you see the future. i know this is a complex one because it's a complex place, but if you could give me 2 sentences about the future of this beautiful and rich continent, i think i can get you to start. and if it's a feature of problem solving, although biopic is ourselves, is the creativity,

all of this is going to be fused into what like, you know, i vision and i worked with a lot of young african john this uh, over the last 10 years. and i can see that there's a lot vision and i hope that's uh is uh, a be the intended right now. and no. okay, i wanted to back up to somebody because i think that's what i can because it was with things a lot heavily on the confidence that st bigger 60 percent of the young people want to leave africa because they don't get the opportunity for themselves. and it's not because the opportunity is not bad because we're not looking at it the right way. so i really want the wells and the media to conduct the creed just to talk about the opportunity never. it's because it's without optimism. we don't invest, we don't bills, we don't stay, we don't try on either your vision for the future of us. i mean, i always hear people say the future is africa, but for me, the future is actually now and i would encourage anyone watching this to come to

africa and to see with your own eyes because the reality of what's on the ground and what you see in the media obviously is 2 different things, but you know, i'm fully invested in the continents and to me, it's a exciting time for us and you know, we have obviously a lot of challenges to overcome. but through that, you know, the key thing is that there's a lot of opportunities and a lot of things still to do here. here's the final word from you. yes, so yeah, what i would say is right now, this is self love of pollution. africans are back in love with themselves. let's use this to, you know, to, to not retain by the end of the dental all story for the 1st time in history. although we had the original pin dependents back in by hand. so it's up to us how we tell our story and as long as how we build the next generation and lead us how they see themselves. so right now is crucial time as you know what i'm saying. the future is now it's really proof of the we tell our story in order to build the next

generation and lead us a we can become the solution to all parties. the furniture is applicant in the future is now with that in line. thank you so much fuse located inc and i to, for your time for joining the stream today. and thank you all for tuning in to stay in touch with us online. you can use the hash tag or the handle energy stream, and we will look into your questions and suggestions take care. and also using the the youngest country in the world child sedan economy is mostly dominated by what's called calling for my sector. is also the poorest health schooling and foot by 2 to an economy, yet not being provided by informing the claim set. and the 1st part of the series out is there examines the intricacy of south sit on society and extraordinary resilience of its people. i always advise you don't have to drag the book, but

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