in the fall for the car full of frogs being a plastic aid to us the america of the caribbean right and our struggle over there all for show doctors and why did you write the book. i wrote the book for a couple of reasons one is that you know you know who we are where it's all about after because it's not a hopper it's 3 syllables fog of what our dreams we fall foul of hockey and really hit it from us so i decided stewards of research and find out exactly why we said that there was every african because i was a shoot at that civilization began going on for gus and that the origin of artist an obstacle i needed to get all the full vision out and which is out there for you for about the syndicate to build by writing the fan bases are actually because we don't have all that much time but i wanted to ask you when you are now in cape

coast some of the us and congress members live there is well what is the significance off that city cape can. you have good cause to anyone see where the host of the lives of our way taken out so we've become a symbol by the fact that the very last thing on the south was because of our progress of the very thing that representative we have brownsville. by george your people were taken out from the conservation of the evidence ok and so mr young guy we really appreciate you coming on we're looking forward to having you here now studio to talk more about the book you've written called you young colts and for me n.p.n. can escape codes thank you thank you. not gonna has say so the year off returned to mark the anniversary the government

is billing it as quote a major landmark spiritual and birthright journey and an invitation to the global african family to come to ghana they dub the africa made one young american who came home. 26 year old ivory kula and his colleagues i getting ready for the day for the next 2 months the student is volunteering at this school to help children with autism he says motivation is to understand what these kids have to go through and also to give back to can use a site called my. almost 2000 africans in the diaspora who have visited ghana this year and a spot of the year of return program to mark 400 years since africa sway taking our cross the atlantic slaves i did decide as a volunteer because i felt as though this would be the best way to integrate myself

with the culture as well as a community in ghana and working with students here and serving it was it was a good way for me to basically express love in the form of service express love in the form of giving back but also learning about the african culture and how to remove myself in that african culture. shuffle in the james 40 prison in a crowded place leaves where kicks shipped across the atlantic save as memorials to the burial ground of climbing chroma epp an african icon is also a key sight for other african americans who are in spite of my increment and his struggle to end colonialism in ghana. really really really grateful i'm happy to be here to experience the the year for terror activities and be able to reconnect with my ancestors who have gone on before me and i choose to call them now they are

enslaved forefathers they were taken without their consent but really the children have returned and we see where our forefathers came from and i'm so contented unrelated to be here. as the. program across the country. about africa. out of the. africa. trade the process of championing this call for people to come. and celebrate the story of resilience like african americans has struck

a connection with the country and its people hopefully. to the us with memories. from the good memories to the bad memories randy is a country still deeply scarred by the genocide 25 years ago nearly all the killers in the 1904 mass are men many have served time in prison but now want to heal themselves and of a community's our correspondent. has been to the city of sandy and west of wanda there she met some of those struggling to come to terms with the past. today these men sit side by side in community based social to share their experiences during. the 1900. 25 years ago when up to a 1000000 tutsis a moderate hutus were wiped out in just 100 days he would divide it among those who

carried out the killings and those who survived it. memories of being on the run and how his pregnant wife had to give in hiding divot. cry when we couldn't find. way that baby would survive being with us but i still have friends who i was doing business with they helped me and they took my newborn at night to a woman who run an orphanage at. the baby stage but a few days later the perpetrators went to look for him they took my baby and killed him. up don now lives a peaceful life with his wife. but he struggles with the guilt of not being able to protect the 12 members of his family who were killed during the genocide similarly former release perpetrators like every easter have served their sentence are still haunted by what they call the shame of their past he says he's guilty of killing 4 people including to members of his own family. i came to realize that i

can't escape my judgment i accepted it and went to ask my father in law for forgiveness it was too much to handle the fact that i had killed my mother in law i was in so much pain. many of the men returning from prison had struggled they found their families estranged their role as the head of the household challenged in the image of their very own masculinity destroyed they say these feelings however cannot be talked about in public. and always has to be strong a man has to suffocate his pride and behave like a man. the way i see it a man should also show his emotions in rwanda in culture i can accept it in public . a man needs to overcome his pain. then swallowed it tears that's a local problem here in rwanda which reflect the dangerous side to all men are

expected to deal with their pain and grief alone in silence and internally although the country is hailed as a role model reconciling with its violent past a toxic image of let's kill anybody who continues to have the healing process of it's me a population. away from social pressures and the least and i'm glad they have found a safe space to reconcile and work on the psychological. therapy helped. because we used to fear each of. them whenever i saw a person i had wronged. i could feel my heart racing. we have no problems with the perpetrators anymore because they're part of the families of social therapy. when we meet now we are the same we have the

same heart. but. the man of peace a new social therapy group hope to contribute to the healing of their country so that future generations won't repeat their mistakes by facing their demons together they set an example so that rundown men learn how to show their emotions and their society learns to accept that. and that is it for now from africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page has been great have you until next time by back. to. claim. the go to the girl max you just.

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of the 1st place her thank her to the 41st. cent of all women have experienced violence at the hands of their partners. they've been verbally abused beaten and raped. or heard of some have been subject to acid attacks or burned or mutilated. fathers have been murdered. and. i want to thank you i. thank.

you. all cried when it went through one of my early childhood was very difficult i never knew my father my mother raised me by herself and that was hard. one served on that until the 5th grade i was a good student in 1999 i received a scholarship for secondary school. and that's when i got my 1st marriage proposal . telling local us 1st of all i was physically mature for my age and people used to look down on me. they said i was born out of wedlock and had to marry quickly to save my honor they said that if i didn't i'd end up just like my mother. what he

did the. leverage over the little. and put it so was it so it took 3 years they kept telling her to marry me i used to love her but she refused and then she said i was too young and she wanted to send me to school a little late but. we're going to. ok that's a good healthy way to be able to help us along there are lots of marriage negotiations but my mother was still opposed to the idea the prospective husbands got angry and threatened us when they said if i can't marry her i'll tell her. i was married when i was 14 i didn't know anything about men or intimacy or starting a family. but. that's. what. you have chicken darks you always slaughter the one that looks the most

mature. so that's how it was with me. thank you. thank you so much tom they also are so gullible as one day my husband came home and said he'd run out of money. and he wanted me to take out a micro credit loan i said i had no idea how to do that because i knew nothing about banks. from. bottom mobile t.v. said my mother should do it. we had electrical cables hanging on the wall all over our house. and when i talked back to him.

you know he flew into a rage and pulled down one of the cables he threw me onto the bed and doubled up the cable he was holding it. well i'm sure a little one and he beat me as hard as he could. i begged him to stop i prayed to allah. but my husband kept pounding away so i had very long hair at that time and every time he hit me he pulled my hair again and again. he jacked my hair down to my hips he slammed his elbows into my hips and back he beat me with a stick and kicked me. in the west african country of binny and nearly one 5th of all females are subjected

to genital mutilation. most girls are married against their will after they start menstruating at around the age of 12. many run away from their husbands and end up living on the streets before turning to prostitution. or. wrong. it was just. for. a nun myaing if i wasn't forced to marry my husband the early on he tried to seduce me but i stopped him so he told his mother that i didn't want him to get her parents to make me marry her or i'll drink poison and kill myself. while we but my mother refused then his mother fell on her knees in front of me when she was quite old and i told her that i didn't want to marry her son when. she said that he was her only

child and asked me at least to pretend that i loved him. not even through the actual words my mother said that the woman had put a curse on me. all the people shouldn't behave like that in front of younger people musical so i decided to marry him anyway she had put a curse on me in those i am would be seen but i. was like you. i. want to do the says when i was 16 i got pregnant for the 1st time though my husband and i moved to the city of power kuharich but we couldn't live with anyone and his family . so i stayed with a friend of. my husband was violent right from the start he scolded humiliated and physically abused me.