time. for the truth. to. drugs and connection. it's time to work. and coming up ahead. minds. news africa coming up on the program touched down in the future the 1st nigerians are i back from south africa as the steve's in a. box what. i have to offer. also in the program. while means a former president his family on the government or school off year old plan. unique cross cultural collaboration we speak to young south african composer. mixes

we. welcome to the program they are home by their future is uncertain this is for many of the nigerians from south africa hundreds of nigerians flights home solo in a wave of violence against foreign as in south africa while there is relief to have an escaped me they say they are not sure what the future holds for them i told our correspondents funny for a shot was one of the fest international correspondents to meet any of the airports in lagos sent us this report. slowly and with a long delay it finally arrives the airplane from johannesburg. and some officials

are waiting for the passengers to disembark. this is the 1st machine from south africa with nigerian. the 1st since anti immigrant violence erupted in and around your hand last week now that the nigerians are back what is the future force for that. warm welcome to begin with but a lot of uncertainty to this woman left south africa after 7 years because of the xenophobic attacks she says she has brought to her child with her it brings. people . so. what's the plan for the future what are you hoping to forge ahead how do you find a job because i'm a graduate. of. hours earlier and just outside of the airport the usual hustle in lagos nigeria is facing chronic

unemployment especially among its youth just like south africa this young man studied to be an accountant but can only survive preparing carse he believes the future is bleak for the returning. few so sorry for the because. you don't have. a question that a senior assistant of president bihari is eager to answer the government has been criticised for not doing enough for the returning a private chose to volunteer to bring some of them home one of the major problems we see in this situation is communication so they're going to do with time that will last them for 2 months that is not what these people want to hear 189 people arrived on the 1st plane tired exhausted and confused expecting more from the

government. all government needs to provide some things for pause like electricity and water on good roads you understand me that is what. is that to me asking they. very basic means to start a business like they had in south africa who are they could make a living but would they no longer feel. so why and how will robert mugabe be barry's on thursday zimbabwe's government and mugabe's family are yet to be at loggerheads president estimate on guard the visit of a god useful to discuss the funeral arrangements outside of the private residence proud to be a respect for money. well god he continues to divide opinion for some he was a dictator who ruled the country with an iron fist but he will always remain the

freedom fighter who led zimbabwe to independence from british colonial rule did of the news africa spoke to a close friend of mcgarvie just with priest. eat meat at the top start led to mugabe resigning in 27 scene of the priest is also someone who knew the lighter side of mugabe the private man he know who you have to seen and he like. classical music he good school. what i enjoy robert most of. the 3 d. basically bring an argument then you see the fool rabbit if he was a philosopher picks along he would take this issue philosophically you know if you're not if you're not prepared you realize that here the least logic . do you have to follow if we don't know.

fidel is talking to did news africa on how he knew. the. big hairy african rhythms medieval european chad's spot of unique cross cultural collaboration for a new work by young african composer save chords and sets he's brought together 6 singles from germany and 6 vocalists from south africa the german national youth orchestra well when he was commissioned to compose by d.w. father has also young german musicians travel to south africa where the mets the host on to hit the ground running just 15 minutes after

a fast getting together they started fast john in session. will. report that says he's finished fees beth of change will premier out a bit of an festival in born on thursday night and the young musicians who've been there has been with him can't wait to bring get to an audience who are in his piece to pose pieces that are usually very exciting and rhythmic i think it's amazing the rhythm that. through the 2 different sections that with the i think we're going to have a good time as it should district who i think it's a post piece is absolutely brilliant and i always think it's fantastic when someone is brave enough to compose a piece for the stress and voices and i think it will work beautifully. simple to see the composer of that's exciting musical collaboration joins me now writes i've handled several thanks for your time so tell us how did you come about this project

. to give new commissioned a piece and they they just described that they went to into the 2 vocal groups and once in 10 ocus does well and i took on the challenge and here we are. here every 19 now let's listen to a clip of your has all witnessing us from from germany and south africa. the end. the you on the air. that was you know fall so what's unique about this collaboration.

what's unique about this collaboration is that the negative is totally from from the point of view of an african and the music speaks of a new south africa where. dreams are nothing but possibilities. ok maybe you should throw more on that why focus on this. why focus on the why focus on this we're talking about in new age as an offical why now do you want to focus on this topic. because a lot of opportunities that. have always been. good for young people so i think it's an age when. we have x. is true true to more information about how to make music more accessible to people . ok now so castro composing is normally

considered a domain for white people so what is it like being a black composer in south africa. it's very exciting it's very exciting because i get the opportunity to make the focus to speak in my language which is something that hasn't happened in south africa or in africa is a hold for a very long time and it's a great opportunity to finally be able to speak in our lead which through this big machine which is the orchestra ok i like the way you say orchestra is your language so what do you hope it's like but all of this say in the next 510 years. definitely infiltration of industry. we definitely want to have a fractured music into the spaces of the digital worlds hollywood but with an african negative. so we normally have this where african

narrative and you want to drive that narrative through your music what kind of african narrative you want to share with the rest of the well. the 1st being the beauty of africa the 2nd being the reality of what africans experience and go through the 3rd being. the idea that we can definitely change that ok so you describe your music new school what do you mean by that i mean that. this music speaks of what we experience no it's like a snapshot of where we we we depict the times of today through our music because there's you know music is is pretty emotive so this is late taking a picture. of what we experience right know so that in history. we can be remembered in songs. how do you want to remember in history

busy. i want to be known as a composer that liberated herds that inspired people to go for the tree mz inspired people to be more of themselves and to remember that each and every one of us is beautiful ok that was beautiful samples and then see many thanks for your time. thank you so much. that's it for now from africa you can catch all our stories on our web site on the facebook page we need you now which mall that i'm amazing after all you will call operational protest rope music i'll let you enjoy if i see you in the next edition of the program. do. you think.

there's to think. big. i was here when i arrived here i slept with 6 people in a room. it was hard i was fit. i even got white hair. and the gym language now not this keeps me and pick up much mickey to interact with the site you want to know their story lines her fighting and reliable information for migrants. coming on sunday adventures of the famous

naturalist and explorer. to celebrate alexander from the books from 250 morning on the foreach of discovery. expedition in boyd dino. hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robin merrill and coming up on the show today my guest is the palestinian israeli pinterest and conductor. who is also the founder of the galilee chamber orchestra unique on sawmill based in israel. and this weekend is the 250th anniversary of the birth of the great explorer out of. we have

a special program about him coming up soon on g.w. . we begin today though with a quite unique exhibition in the netherlands which is understandably causing a lot of controversy a museum and then bosch is looking at design from the 3rd dariush of course the most famous symbol was the swastika originally an ancient asian religious icon used as a symbol of divinity all good luck unfortunately this symbolism was ruined by the nazis while this exhibition shows is how important 3rd reich design was in promoting its evil philosophy. national socialism a murderous ideology and machine of war and a brand the nazi party was keen.