the banks speak. the language of a banker. speaking the truth global news that matters. hello and welcome to the 77 percent show for africa's. micah. now just to remind you. of africa's population is under the age of $35.00 are you part of the young generation then you're in the right place we focus on the issues that matter to you coming up on today's program. in ghana we discuss how but it's an isolation african economies and how we can all benefit.

we had. south africa where we discovered the. wealth of streets. around has been navigable city for nothing. but 1st what do you do with a broken mobile phone or an old computer recycle let's throw it away most electronic trash and huge waste dump sites on exactly great for the environment now to young game developers from ghana hoping to raise awareness of this problem they've created an augmented reality game with the hope of inspiring change by taking players right to the heart of the problem. imagine you are a space command and responsible for keeping. what would you do.

this is a trailer for the video game the chronicles of clean the game is set in a book will see i distract in the southwest of central across. this area home to the in famous crop yet known as sodom and gomorrah it's a vast dumping ground for east. game developers prince andrew added a few and matthew hutson who grew up in garner. they want players to come up with creative solutions to one of their country's biggest challenge is a waste. the game in reality is more or less intertwined because you can see what is happening in real life and also you get to explore the world of the water we are featured on a different different definition of reality so it's more or less in timing with

reality as in real life virtual reality and commented to the game tries to encompass everything. and make it as a whole is everything of an army real if you ask yourself when you're playing a game. and reality really does play an important part here because anyone playing the chronicles of peano needs. to be on location at the site interacting directly with the environment. players can learn about the toxic gases that are released when waste is bhante. they can also walk to its goals like getting rid of the and cleaning up. the game deals with the theme of recycling but in a playful way and the task players might have to compete is taking pictures to document the pollution is no monitor and when you play

a game for leisure we play games like in fact our mentality to broaden our how we understand things how we are whatever we name in the game. the chronicles of cleaning is one part of a mega game called enter africa it consists of 15 different location based mobile games that are aimed at creating positive social change across the continent. we don't operate directly not a different approach to problem solving that is to get me for creation through game mechanics thinking out of the box and sometimes thinking that there's no books are truly we want to see that approach to problem solving and operate on what we believe we've done. to control people a chance and then bring about various solutions up to talk to me we would have talked about and then that is what we want to see. it's time to put the chronicles of cleaning to the test the team is at the digital conference republican

in accra to present the game to the public for the 1st time playing the game it brings you an awareness of. what's going on in hopes to find the solutions towards fixing the problems i found the questions a little bit small but. that's part of it. it's really exciting. i think game karen to focus on pollution but prince andrew at de feo hopes that in the future the game could tackle all sorts of important issues i want to see africa being sustainable in all the. shop assistant at the system when it comes to business when it comes to public or child when it comes to game development every industry has the industrial revolution in africa must be institutionalized right and if you think imports are just enough. for the moment

things vision of a key is only advice for reality and gaming help the vision crossed over into the real. games like this part of a big a phenomenon they did allies asian is shaking up ghana and many other african countries we send money via mobile phones and pharmacy and even use ups to help boost the harvest so then just a few examples of promises from tech giants new jobs and great our economy grew but how do we ensure that all of us benefits from they did solicitation our report cited the money went to a crowd to find out in this week's street debates. we're back in akron the capital of ghana and today we're going to be asking the question can digital life be shots but africa what is digitalisation to begin with well lucky for me i have written core group of people who are going to explain all the

details the challenges of possibly help africa can overcome those challenges and the 1st question is going to go to a man who's been described as a monk to talk about for africa well he's shaking his head you really don't like that you know go get to that shortly but briefly if you can what is the digitalization utilization is is very much you know disrupting the space enough going creating jobs creates an opportunity is bringing spirit so it's a good thing you know a lot about persis is an uppercut 90 i want to ask you because you're a digital marketing but you're also teaching people digital literacy how do we begin the process of teaching people how to use this very complex software as a programs when they don't even have access to electricity it's a tough pushing because most people do not benefiting from social media the internet world wide web is because of all these climaxes is because of all these

places because you don't have internet they don't have the key city they don't have much school and they don't even have education enough so i think it's more of everyone's that feeling to do jobs n.g.o.s civil societies individuals private sectors the governments it's a collective effort we need a collective of what's a view to ok i want to bring in someone who actually works for the banking sector we're talking about a digital revolution but of course it needs financing africans serious about putting their money where their mouth is. i don't think about where we put our money i think that once you create an idea most of the time. but maybe you need to talk with that sure. dot's you have provided the spots a good idea 6 or 10 people and then dropping you some peanuts but there's a it's not believe to skill up then you cannot push a bank and then the financial institution time actually didn't support so ok well that's what you think the issue was having gone off funding is that the cost of

money is quite expensive to go to the bank for a loan it's about 26 percent interest rate yeah interest rates and the young person . i have an idea where to buy and i says to ask you to pay 26 percent we have no financial records gratis so it's quite difficult to write you know developing an idea or even scaling it i want to bring in the students here because he's obviously one of the 1000000 euros and he's been looking for a job in the i.t. set just so we're seeing this is good for the continent but it seems there's no space for people like you. actually. for the what do you have it's like one person will be 100 maybe 2 jobs so one person we supposed to. sit back and will be doing you are using to freeze is just one person so he's picking up in the job of someone's else's so should like someone doing u.i. and so on being back and yeah. yeah yeah and i think i think

that's actually very traditional companies but it's changing very fast as you say it's oppression so some of us in the gaming industry now what we're doing is creating more jobs with what's a beautiful day with all the possibilities of the titles so what i tell people is when tech and creative thoughts come together more opportunities more jobs are created so there's a whole possibility of what big it brings to a space and we just have to be brave enough to dive into the sec this ok i want to bring in google plus i'm sorry who is actually a human rights activists not a person you would expect to find in a conversation about digital digital lazy oh this web is going to be stumbling over it today. but you say that then needs to be a conversation about what we are doing to have a society particularly with children absolutely i'm advocating that technology is

good we can't do anything about it is good we need it for business development but the excess is it has created it's nigga. impacting on our children when it comes to feet when it comes to all vices that are having an impact on children and so they develop technology must come up with messages that will be of use in protecting our children ok well how do you react to that prince being told that innovation could be a problem can be dangerous particularly to children. if you look. for the people who played his mobile games in front of the. children and all the systems wouldn't place to prevent on this kind of negative sides not just the science. blogs and. pop ups and or the. damn disruptive they're not really prepared for it because one

. there's no need for infrastructure to make a sustainable into and also the people. and doesn't need people like nadia to you know. and to get our skills of course. no village doesn't have a system. in the transaction so the there's a disconnect there let me come back to you because you were talking about digital literacy so when a person like prince he had developed something disruptive. are we able to consume it in the way that it has been designed. thinking of all what you mentioned access i think they mostly focus on nails just like prince did why is that because of the know how how many women are we training to know all to use the technology boasting and bragging about how many women in the rule us are actually knowing what is happening on the worldwide web it's very less most women who use technology is mostly to connect with connected social media platforms and into this but

a broad number of women using technology just like the men are boasting about how to digitize things make money easy and all of that a woman actually gets in the axis i think this is not much. because the targets are people who already are on the incentives to make big things happen in spite of everything that we've spoken about today the full thing just a revolution is africa prepared and does the future look good for us i think we are ready for it but we should also not forget. informal sector because we are very much important so let's see how we can include done by cheney and building technology to this list solve problems and less. attention too much on the problems as a sort of the problems thank you very much i have to say it's been a very exciting debate i wish we had more time and i'm obviously feeling like this is a chicken and egg situation i'm not sure if it's humanity 1st in technology or the

other way around but in any case thank you for watching. and nice to hear from my god our people thanks to everyone who participated in austria debates you can watch the whole debate on you tube and send us your comments. now let's head further south street spinning is now the fastest growing motor sports in south africa was once linked to gangsterism but now a new generation of drivers pushing this subculture into the mainstream you want this adrenaline fueled sport isn't for the faint of heart. to. remove. the screeching tires roaring motors and the n.t. of adrenaline this is the god of south african street speaking. a bit spinning it's

like a drug you have to be pretty tough for me to understand it's turning it's all about . the truth and i mean. you know just feel yourself being free of the rooms simply see how many death defying stunts you can perform before the engine gives out spinning evolved during the 1980 s. at the height of the appetite regime expensive cars which while considered status symbols of white supremacy was stolen and used to perform stunts as an act of defiance it was also the perfect getaway cars for gangsters. but the north has changed scenes a young generation of spinners has moved the sport off the streets and into venues events like wheels and smoke in the south of johannesburg a popping up across the country. one star of the scene is dealing with grow it is a key he draws excited she is from the crowd as he spins he's caught as close to

them as possible and he's always been the competition little. worse when he was in woods now it's. the people and families they need to give this one as they got to see their favorites one of. them or not mortals idols and sporting a tell ya swimming it's a good starting to get recruits for the family game the youngsters they want to be with. all those spinning still takes place on the streets the truly wild days are no longer on today it's seen as a legitimate sport in south africa and is performed much more. safely in proper venues you can even sign up for a spinning course like here at the sweater drifting academy this is the training ground of the spino lobby mughals a female only spinning crew they're determined to prove that these kind of sport isn't just for boys most of what i do trying to take away all that.

stigma that is built into the sport and we're trying to take away that people can be can know that they can also comment experience things out of their comfort zone so this is a very great experience so it doesn't make me feel like a look at me he would say. making. this a way to drift academy is the brainchild of pull em who funds the training sessions himself it is the fastest step towards ams ultimate goal of launching the last female spinning lead he hopes these women will help push the sport even further into the mainstream was to be successful as a brand in this thing of want to sponsor and cause printing we need to involve women and to make sure that we actually make it as much as i've been able to all the people that do live in our society although spinning has its roots in left today drivers need to dig deep into their own pockets fixing a busted up cars doesn't come cheap professional spinners likes to go right in

soweto is he spends up to $10000.00 euros a year just to keep their cars running luckily many spinners are also skilled mechanics. commercial sponsors are still reluctant to support a sport still largely perceived as illegal. because right now is reserved on a rainy sponsors who don't have backing i don't know anything like for instance marco it's a conversion. of year or so but it doesn't come standard like. we convert to the if you have to go to someone a convert. 5 series like this one makes it into a one call you're going to pay probably and your sense of 60000 and that's quite a lot of money which not a lot of people have scaurus wife isn't exactly pleased with the has been so close to the sport of choice but that doesn't stop him from being a regular at the wilson small event every thursday in

a society that remains segregated in so many ways spinning isn't just entertainment for sport it's also a sport which knocks down racial boundaries luu everyone loves a just brings everyone together as you can see here this different of us is this different people you're all come together for one purpose and to see people and to see a sports that we're trying to merge which is called spinning although some veteran spinners are worried that confining speeding to designated venues east coast is what it's all an emerging young generation of drivers a working hard to improve its reputation so that everybody can let off some steam you. think. talk about running and sports. best of luck to all the up and coming young drivers but hey they see. now it can't

be easy being one of the only female rappers in a city of 2000000 people but isn't one to say no to a challenge she agreed to show us around his city cannot create. she begins her tour by taking us to the place where it all began. but i am for my to come. from guinea i mean cannot create well was born and grew up let me show you my city again. has made it as a female rapper in conakry a city of around $2000000.00 people we have begun in the bustling streets of beginning in capital to be more precise it began here in the dynamic but often equally dangerous. when there's a protest in concrete you can bet it started in this area of the city but have friends let him come here to demonstrate they came to dance to the beat of their favorites and eventually to take the mike themselves 11 years later yeah still

meeting here to catch up and enjoy. concoction. this is his my coach my brother my friend he's everything to me it's thanks to him that i still have a mike in my hand in rupp is my coach for ever. give me the traditional muslim country here rap music is very much a man's world system is the only woman in his 2nd all of musician friends. defy me it hasn't been easy at all it in my family my father put me under a lot of pressure he wanted me to continue my studies when you talk about trapped here the older generation immediately thinks of criminals that you're going a small doing drugs drink alcohol i have nothing to do with all of that think. about the role of women in guinea and society and covers topics like the. violence

and female genital mutilation these topics are absolutely taboo and a country where 97 percent of women are kept and every 2nd girl is married before her 18th birthday. as well as french she also sings and the 3 national languages. this way she can reach as many people as possible especially those living outside of the capital where you mostly speak sister began writing songs in 2009 in the years that followed she performed by guinea and gradually made a name for herself she's now recording her 1st album in studio. and i working on my album and we've just done freestyle on my last song. this guy is the best sound engineer in the what. do if.

the title of a lead song essentially means i won't stop until steve overwhelms me it's the perfect move to forces the lesser whose main source of inspiration is a hometown a city that never sleeps. stretches from the shores of the atlantic along that. was the adjoining comedians i think in humans hands permanently over the city. to me is the most beautiful city in the world especially while standing on the beach in the air as the deed draws to an end and children play football and the last rays of sunshine and i'm proud of my. just inspires me thanks for joining me it's great bye bye. thanks for showing us around it was fantastic to get to know your friends and your city. now that brings us to the end of the show but don't worry we'll be back soon

in the meantime we're here for you on facebook and you tube where you can join the discussion and you can always e-mail us at 77 d.w. dot com in our next episode we have some exciting topics coming up. what are the roots of identity what's defines us as african that's the theme of our next. you write that single men i mean but as our from the affable bansal to so. many of us. thanks for joining us on the 77 percent bit of news magazine for africa's young my jersey well we've got one last treat for you yes conakry his very own rap queen for lessa with a truck what's. next on. and

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