part your story you are trying always to understand this new culture. in other visitor. you want to become a citizen. migrants your platform. this is state of the news africa coming up in the next fifteen minutes a tense wait in nigeria as voters brace for the election results church services across the country did a case praised to be whatever the outcome will be. and will it be more. sinegal the fifty four year old seeking a second presidential to go voters give it to him. then what it is say we'll find out why south african talk show host or the no worse if the twitter sphere on fire when you spoke and.

i'm christine window welcome to the program i'm glad you're tuned in votes are being counted off to nigeria's election and finally it's a place at the weekend so wolf muhammadu buhari stage a comeback or will his main challenger. pull the rug from under his feet well there's not a whole lot of polling data available but analysts have said it's going to be a close contest at least thirty five people are said to have died in violence in the run up to the election but the african union say the poll was generally peaceful now that's important because elections in nigeria can be deadly in two thousand and eleven more than eight hundred people died in post-election protests in the north wind blow hari was defeated so it's no surprise prayers for peace are

being held in church services all over the country as nigerians wait for the result this report now from africa's fine if a child. there's only one topic on people's minds this pentecostal church the election that also goes for the pastor. the presidency. just to crouch to refrain from violence that is a member of the congregation to twenty five year old is grateful that things here remain peaceful unlike in other parts of nigeria. during service it's irrelevant who has voted for whom it's after church when the discussion moves beyond. there are more than fourteen million you want to read just

a fortress this time around compared to twenty fifteen and many of them have voted for the very first time they want to bring about change young people young thirty years old like you danielle you're one of the people who voted for the first time what kind of change. see change in policies that affect us as youths and young people want to see changes that affect the economy quite quickly daniels' friends begin a heated debate about the future of the economy may just have been handicapped we don't even want to move there is no. want to move to the other side and. those friends of danios who received a card on time voted for a car challenger to incumbent president bihari not because they believe things will

change overnight but because they see a different administration is key for they use to claim power one day. waiting for the government's young people. radian young people who are forced treated and dear are determined right now to do tease to get themselves what they want to get. people under thirty are already in the majority in nigeria they know that population grows young people will have more power if they actually use it to hold politicians accountable that process has just started as people like daniel and need to and their friends are getting older. ok and i'll send a girl also how did election this weekend in the country is now awaiting the official results just like nigeria senegal is a young country seventy percent of the population is under the age of thirty and those young people yield considerable power when it comes to politics so failing to deliver for the young generation in senegal is

a risky tax hike for any politician seeking to stay in power seven years ago macky sall was propelled to victory by a vibrant youth movement that was insistent on sweeping away the old god that movement has caught you on a ma which means we're fed up in english now the people that powered that movement back for this election and they have a new message take a listen. i'm. not with. you. all right i'm now joined by one of the activists from the young amal movement he is also a member of the band kitty and they released a song that we've just been listening to t.x. it's great to have you on the news africa welcome your song was

a hit before the election when one takes a look at you tube over a million views so you're pretty influential in senegal what was your message to young people this time round. yeah thank you for inviting me i mean that was really important for us to do this kind of song before the election because we knew that much assad would ask for a second round for a second term and then sort of second term he will he has to say ok this is what i achieved during the seven years of my systems and then we knew that he got a lot of promises and nothing was true so in that song particular we told him ok you promised you would do five years instead of seven that was a lie he said you will have twenty five minister that was a lie you say that your your brother would not be involved in the political affairs was found out or even your family the family of your wife are having new stuff for this and so you did much you were doing a summary of the seven years of my message to the people and for them to be aware

before the election to do not vote for him ok so it's interesting because you know you all movement was really credited for helping not to sell come to power you have since turned your back on him if this is some of the reasons why and what are you hoping for young people for senegal what is the message that you want to them now which candidate are you now endorsing. yeah i once said that it would help much still to come in the power i would say that we fought against a lot and then much of our challenger capitalize the fact that we will rule fighting against the one that was the case so the hope is the real change africa is struggling with what we call the type of politician that without much. about the countries they have a profit on the power you read or all know that much is a toy is a political science look at what's happening in our country now we can belong to two french companies a much nationals yes so we need something fresh and new we need the definitive

revolution i want you to have a listen because our correspondent has been talking to people on the streets of senegal what unction listen to one woman who spoke to us have a listen to what she said i'd like for you to comment on that second essence. start on him this vision we want young people to be given more responsibility we are sick of being lured to older people always seems to be given priority here it's time that the needs of the younger generation are also recognised by this country's political systems as it be. ok to so calling for young people not to be ignored what is their responses very quickly as we close this interview i don't think that they're going to listen to the young people now anymore they really do listen to the young people give you a lot lastly said like yesterday their young people are showing that they really sort of change and i don't agree with the fact that people didn't we nobody

listened to us yet people are listening to a very well because we are the majority of the country so definitely we want to stick up for the change and that's what we demand that's why election people who like to do not vote for much thought when i was in my duty all right. thank you so much coming to us from the from they go on a mass movement and the clergy band thank you. thank you for inviting me you shout . now it was nice for diversity on sunday at the oscars thanks impost to the groundbreaking model full black panther now ruthie kasha was on it with the best costume design oscar while head of beach accepted a golden statue for her production design work on the same movie both women were the first black women in the category now black panther won a third oscar for original school it was the first superhero movie ever nominated for best picture and became a cultural touchstone for its depiction of the superhero of african descent after

a series lease a year ago it's take a look. at the world. on . it. i am. i. ok so the talk show host craven it was chosen to introduce black panther as one of the best picture nominees at the oscars and wasn't focused around the praise for what was described as he's powerful speech about africa now the daily show host who's from johannesburg chose to include a close a phrase in he's instr let's have

a listen. if you don't want anyone to come up with a good job of trying for all believe. if you could remind me of the great cause suffering. by our front yard which may be in times like that when we start to go then when we try to find a job this is the best picture nominee. ok so what many people didn't realize was that trevor no i offered a completely misleading translation. of phrase what he actually said was why people don't know i'm lying has sparked a huge social media reaction this was a user quoted one of the funniest stands ever pulled off at the oscars is another writes respects to travel you know of for his joke to south africans that's of course where is an official language and this credit striven no for putting black history month back on track a reference to the african-american actor jesse small

a who allegedly paid to have a bogus racist attack staged against him and stand accused of damaging race for the nations in the u.s. at a particularly sensitive time ok so we leave you now with pictures of one of africa's veteran jazz singers that's dorothy those involved in born south african passed away this weekend she was eighty three but the music of so called on to dutch will live on just as will the legacy and not many believe this but there is my canvas iconic song that's a classic she wrote that the next time i put out the song. the

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a song to sing along to you to come from super. interactive exercises. everything is online and interactive in german for free with the w. hello and a very warm welcome to our news from arts and culture i'm karen helm stad and here's what's in the pipeline for today's show. no shortage of surprises on sunday night at the ninety first academy awards in los angeles green book took on best picture with a best supporting actor not former hershel alley and we'll talk more about the story behind that film. a classic in our series one hundred german must

reads and why you should put the tin drum by nobel prize winner. on your reading list. and we catch up with berlin based illustrator can't mention crews worked with some of literature's real heavyweights. but first the oscars are the really big deal today and a lot happening there i'm joined by our film expert scott ross perot who's looking none the worse for wear for the long night. is amazing that's how it goes and you know how surprised were you at this win for green book yeah i mean if you're going to design an oscar winning film green book would take a lot of the boxes because it's out of the store it's a fuel good story about overcoming racism through the power of friendship. it's also a true story which is come hollywood loves as well in this case it's based on a real man who is a racist to tell you the american play by the in the film becomes the chauffeur of a very successful black music.