i'm not often out of the gym but sometimes i am but i'm still nothing which. thinks deep into the german culture of looking at stereotypes but interesting to see you from the country that i'm. here needed to prepare for this drama. you know it's cold out there. i'm rachel join me for me to. post. this is the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes the elusive preacha. bill the black panther sightings have long been rumored in kenya scientists have confirmed the animals present with a serious offer a images. and recalls from candidate the nigerian teacher running for president and find out why he education is his priority. then love is in the air

in god but it's both a valentine's day and national chocolate we also people with soup they prefer to celebrate well. i'm a fan of chocolate and. mostly show boys that. i'm christine one of the welcome to news africa i'm glad you're tuned in for a lot of people the term 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 a 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 a gene mutation called melanism the opposite of albinism on the in from ed light the leopard sports 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 that leopards in this region may be unique and 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 in ethiopia so this is just that there's a lot of conservation value here and protecting what may be

a very special subspecies of africa for some seeing a black cat is a sign of bad luck because for 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 bracket 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 see the animal ok so that conservationist 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 a community 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 experience so that people are one of the hell that's just you don't know 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 robot to do as candy said to they love but if you ask their permission and they're going there mr in-store might come in at ups and the storm a come after a day after a few months or you got a black look you got the package and as far as i was as i have read to them it has actually been posing trouble in the community they called it the castleton are right. but they're not actually the blood just spotted the people say that you know local community say that they think they're deployed low but there is no living around. the reality of. the house and the you know everybody you know it's. 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 attention about. i reseated people or all the world can get the attention of their consumerism of their 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 black nobody could ever want to get that attention to who are expected of a conservation we can able to come and visit this conservation areas like summer and some of us live in the lake other places that didn't get there is well ready for purposes of conservation with a species personally i mean i came from one of the communities. so i am does i mean it is sort of conservation to the hundred people that you're a student there was a yeah you did get a lot of support from people like i'm so if people can get up and turn and say that yeah then there are always going to be great you know two indestructible ok

ambrose it's only in the air of a ten year holding the forty first conservation if it's happening there thank you and good catch. what a fun story ok so our next one is nigeria's youngest ever presidential hopeful harry 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 the all top news ses is making education his focus. on the election campaign trail in nigeria's capital she killed who is visiting a private school he's the youngest ever nigerian presidential candidate and education is a central theme. until we start to fix education that will be difficult to fix any other sectors in our nation 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 what education. becomes of the school's principal was 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 to look we need to question because of the quality of the dance we hope. many of them don't know a sin about to do creation. and them they don't see it. 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 made the 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 i. hear there are no books charters or chalk up to it's only learning eight is what. it is nine o'clock in the morning and only now the first teacher has shown up in total this school has eight hundred students and only four teachers. sons go to school here the fact 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 and you like children should become doctors or soldiers they should have a worthwhile job and a good future that's my dream but under the 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. god knows all. the you know. the true cost for it. he has to take this to. put it 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 in the president who hours election campaign. 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. to fix the hope the passion the vision the puppet that we as young people bring to the table starting to change this narrative that we're not good enough that we're not ready we're not qualified to be think it's very evident that we have a whole lot more to offer to our generation and the generations coming after us than the people who have 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 so you can do will be to work for. the entire day is a big deal in ghana but the day is also about chocolate in two thousand and five the country dictated the forty three 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 choose. i believe they can't be life with what's going to be. we can take the first. because. i'm a fan of chocolates and i'm mostly show by love i prefer valentine's day to try.

to love is something special to come be a surprise to anyone one immediate time but i believe that this is very easy to shop. if there is a consequence he said side creates a feast and the pretend to be the most grandly and i think that's. me. you know. what i mean i really love talking to you. like one of my countrymen exports and it's good i really like. the. final. so i think. for us to. say i would have the pushing to. specifically for i think that. having. to celebrate to enjoy and how fun with friends and family took. her

for a double to me because i'm fun. and but i'm saying. ok and that's it from. kate because it's not just valentine's day and leave you with images of people sharing and. let's. take a closer look at modern culture from germany if you look. carefully you don't need. to do get.

to discover. it. subscribe to the documentary. hello and a very warm welcome to news from the world and culture i'm robin merrill and here is what's coming up today. we have a round up of music documentary 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 novel set in the bayou era. but i'm going to begin with a quotation from the wall street journal from al jolson i'm a west a prince and share the annals of popular entertainment are filled with inimitable figures into their ranks we had the german singer. i'm quote he and his palace still cast big stars here in europe on making waves in america and elsewhere max rob is my guest in just a minute but first his music. because i'm. not a saddam and the past 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

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