you. sometimes. this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the elusive preacha ports on fill the black panther sightings has long been rumored in kenya and all scientists have confirmed the animals presence there with a serious offer a images. and because from candidate for me the nigerian teacher running for president and find out why he's saying education is his priority. then love is in the air in god but it's both valentine's day and national chocolate day we also people which of the two they prefer to celebrate well. i'm

a fan of shirtsleeve and. i'm christine one. news africa i'm glad you're tuned in for a lot of people the black panther may conjure up images of the film of the same name now images of the animal itself creating headlines the elusive black panther has long been the subject of campfire stories in africa sightings are rare and it's even rarer to capture one on camera emerging from the darkness of black panther scientists say this is the first verifiable sighting of the animal in africa for more than one hundred years. the photos have an almost mythical and they were captured by a wildlife photographer he says how motion sensitive cameras after hearing

a black panther had been spotted in the area this particular panther is actually a leopard it's black fur is caused by gene mutation calls melanism the opposite of albinism on the in from ed light the leopard spore clear to see little more than ten percent of the world's leopards a black subspecies is actually far more common in asia so this sighting in africa respects hilly notable for the fact that we have more than one black leopard confirmed in this area is really important because it suggests the leopards in this region maybe we need special genetically we don't see black leopards anywhere further south carolina we've only seen them here in kenya and we've had reports and he opiah so this is just that there's a lot of conservation value here and protecting what may be a very special subspecies of water for some seeing a black cat is a sign of bad luck there are many here this creature is the stuff of legend now

that legend has become a lot more real. ok so we're all making a big fuss now that the back you have that was actually first spotted a year ago and it was off to a local conservationists was doing some research and villages told him that they'd seen the animal ok so that conservationists is ambrose he told a lie and he joins me now from nairobi hi ambrose welcome to deja vu news africa so you were talking to communities about living with wildlife and they told you that they'd seen the animal what else did they say. so the local communities there was just doing some community service because the communities are under a. lot of human knowledge explicitly. so that people are one of the hell that's no skin tone about it and you see that you know there's a there's a block you know point living out at a place called. summer conservancy and the you know i just didn't just to approach

the owner of the property to ask under the two they love but if you ask their permission and again there you saw in store my comment ups and the of the estimate coming out of dept a few months are you got a black look you got the package and as far as i've read to this it has actually been causing trouble in the community they called it the castle taylor. but not the actually the black just you spotted the people say that you know local community say that they think they're deployed low but there's leaving out under. no part of the deal if you have political. cows and they you know maybe you know. a calculus a lot of people are making a big fuss about this this animal it's all over social media are you surprised by that what do you make of the reaction that people have had to seeing the black if it. so you know i can see and it does all over the world and everybody is that

getting out into the boat. i.e.c. the people who are in all the world can get the attention of the conservation of the species in this in this world in this planet that we are on because. i'm surprised by this scene that they would only tell you about this that everyone can get that attention to who are expected of a conservation we can able to come and visit this conservation areas like summer and summer conservancy lake other places that they did there is well it's for purposes of conservation with a species personally i mean i came from one of them in the summer so i am just a minister of conservation to the hundred people here at us today and those are here. to get a lot of support from people that i'm so if people can get that attention and see that yeah then they are. right you know doing destructive ok ambrose it's only in the year of the ten year holding the force of conservation

if it's happening there thank you and good catch. what a fun story ok so our next one features nigeria's youngest ever presidential hopeful here he is that would be ok cool if a five year old through these hats in the ring off to the infamous knots too young to run bill was signed into goal. is making education his focus. on the election campaign trail in nigeria's capital. who is visiting a private school he's the youngest ever nigerian presidential candidate and education is his central theme. until we stop to fix education that will be difficult to fix any other sectors in our nation ok who lived in the u.s. where he worked as a mathematics lecturer he's calling for thirty five percent of the country's budget to go to war it's education. because of the school's principal surprised to see

a politician who understands education. the school receives no state support and is financed by fees affordable only to those earning good money. to government i don't think they have interests in the do not need to question because of the quality of the dance we have. many of them don't know the cinnabon to do creation. and they don't see education as something that would bring money to them so this was done with funding education like the political failures of the past few decades can be seen three hours drive from object a state funded school in ca northern nigeria where you work feel the need parts of it have collapsed the classrooms have neither desks nor chasse. opportunities fourteen years old himself a student but currently responsible for his whole class. i

take care of them because i. i'm old and i want to help my brothers and sisters like this the teachers aren't here again that's why i'm doing it until. here they are no books joggers are chalk up to it's only learning eight zero with. this nine o'clock in the morning and only now the first teacher has shown up in total the school has eight hundred students and only four teachers. on sons go to school here affect their father reduced day and the teachers are poorly paid he says no one would want to teach at such a school no no no no homos in my children should become doctors or soldiers they should have a worthwhile job and a good future that's my dream but i'm one of these circumstances nothing will come

of it. if he had enough money of the motorbike taxi driver says he would have long ago sent his children to private school the ruling party of president who has been in power for four years and the federal state of the commissioner of education has shifted the blame for the educational situation onto previous governments seventy percent of teachers where i'm qualified more than twenty thousand teachers have been let go because they couldn't reach all right. governors on. the. budget requests for it. key. to take this to. the idea this state spends a third of its budget on education but at the federal level education spending makes up only seven percent of the budget the issue plays hardly any role and

president who hires election campaign. to change that but he and his small party are struggling to be taken seriously in nigeria in spite of a minimal campaign budget he wants to lay down the marker. it's the hope the passion the vision the puppet that we as young people bring to the table starting to change this narrative they were not good enough they were not ready for the fight to be i think it's very evident that we have a whole lot more to offer to our generation other generations coming after us and the people who've been there he says it's a simple equation if nigeria with its booming population no longer invests in education the next crisis will not be far away that he says is something every politician should understand do you think it would be to work for now that

is a big deal in god but the day is also about chocolate in two thousand and five the country dictated the fourteenth of february national chocolate day the idea was that it coincided with valentine's day to boost the domestic consumption of chocolate made in god so we took our cameras to the streets and people if they choose chocolate or love between love and chocolates. i believe they can't be life without what's going to be. we can take the first. because like. a lot in gamma. chocolate well personally i'm a fan of chocolates and. i mostly show i love i prefer valentine's day it's a chance to hear love is something special and of course it come to be expressed to

anyone in one immediate time but i believe that this is very special if there is a particular day set aside for it should be celebrated in the most ground we have thing that's also me that is my baby you know. i would have the pushing to stick to it for a day specifically for danny and i think that. having a spot of the day to celebrate enough to enjoy and have fun with friends and family . is more preferred of all to me because i'm not a fun up for love and i'm trying. ok and that's it from d w news africa for now you can catch all our stories on the way of science and i'll facebook page now because it's not just valentine's day and got to leave you with images of people sharing and chocolates all over africa. to.

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hello and a very warm welcome to news from the world of culture merrill and here is what's coming up today. we have a round up of music documentaries screening at the berlin international film festival including one featuring the late great queen of soul aretha franklin. and we meet american comic book artist jason lutes the author of a popular graphic novels set in the bayou. but i'm going to begin with a quotation from the wall street journal from al jolson and mae west a prince and share the annals of popular entertainment are filled with inimitable figures into their ranks we had the german singer max i'm quote he and his

problems still cast big stars here in europe and i'm making waves in america and elsewhere max rob is my guest in just a minute but first his music. because i'm. on a very. very very . common and the plaster cast record classic tunes of the one nine hundred twenty s. and thirty's as well as their own compositions which sound convincingly as if they came from that era.