every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word published in the. rico is in germany to learn german why not learn with a simple online on your mobile and free. learning course nikos free german made easy. to. use africa coming up on the program down to on sets in the future the fast nigerians are i've bought from south africa as the. box what. i have to offer that . also on the program. means i'm probably more on the former president has fallen on the government option or school bus funeral plan. there's. a unique cross cultural collaboration between young south african composer whose

new makes this awful beans we. welcome to the program they are home by their future is on sets and this is for many of the nigerians from south africa hundreds of nigerians the flights home solo in a wave of violence against foreign as in south africa while there is relief to have an escape many say they are not sure what the future holds for them i told our correspondents funny was one of the fast international correspondents to meet any of the airports in lagos and 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 immigrant violence erupted in and around your hand as last week now that the nigerians are back what does the future hold 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 her child with her the prince michael. so. what's the plan for your future and what are you hoping to force how do you find your 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 repairing cars he believes the future is bleak for the returning. few so sorry for the because. they 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 private chose to volunteer to bring some of them home one of the major problems we see in this situation is community so they're going to do with time that will last the full 2 months that is not what these people want to hear 189 people arrive on the 1st plane tired exhausted and confused expecting more from the government. all government needs to

provide something school halls like electricity water and good roads you understand me what's. that to me asking de. very basic means to start a business like they had in south africa who are they could make a living but where they no longer feel. so why and how will robert mugabe be buried on 1st a zimbabwe's government and mugabe's family up here to be at loggerheads president estimate on god he said to her god useful to discuss the funeral arrangements outside of the private residence crowds gather here respect to be out for money. but how he continues to divide opinion for some he was a dictator who ruled the country with an iron fist. he will always remain the

freedom fighter who led zimbabwe to independence from british colonial rule did of unused africa spoke to a close friend of mugabi just refused. he needed to talk start led to mugabe resigning in 2017 but the priest is also someone who knew the lighter side of mugabe a private man he knows who you hope to seen and he like. classical music he good who. want to enjoy robert most of. the 3 to. bring an argument then you see the food or a bit. he was the thrust of pick song he would take this issue philosophically you know if you are not prepared you realize that here they lease logic. do you have to follow logic if you don't know.

fidel is talking to didn't use africa on how he knew. he. can african rhythms medieval european chads it's part of a unique cross cultural collaboration for a new work by young south african composer save groups and sets he's brought together 6 singles from germany and 6 vocalists from south africa plus a german national youth orchestra far away he was commissioned to compose by d.w. father has also the young german musicians traveled to south africa where the mets the host hit the ground running just 15 minutes after fast get them together they

started fast john in-session. to. the. point that this is finished fees beth a change of all premier either before going 1st of all been 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 to ruin his piece to pose pieces are usually very exciting and with music 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 cool i think to push pieces absolutely brilliant i always think it's fantastic when someone is brave enough to compose a peaceful and voices and i think it will work beautifully. simple to see the composer of that exciting musical collaboration joins me now writes i have handled simple thanks for your time so tell us how did you come about this project.

get new commission to peace and they did you described that they went to into the 2 vocal groups and once in the entire focus just well and i took on the challenge and here we are. yeah 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 the 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 why focus on this and you talking about a 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 the whole world for a very long time and it's a great opportunity to finally be able to speak our language through this big machine which is the work history ok i like the way you say a construct is your language so what you would hope to achieve but all of this see in the next 510 years. definitely infiltration of industry. we definitely want to have african music group 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 merits of you want to share with a 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 so and where we we we depict the times of today through 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.

i want to be known as a composer that liberated huts 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 now that was beautiful samples and then see many thanks for your time . thank you so much. that's it for now from deed of news africa you can catch all our stories on our website on facebook page we need you now with more fat i'm amazing after all you're a collaboration of a kestrel music i'll let you enjoy it but see you in the next edition of the program. to. do you carry. c their. big.

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to. turn back to the roots which are government monthly. charge family from somalia live around the world but one of them needed urgent assistance. a family starts october any on d w. hello and welcome to news from the world of arts and culture i'm robert 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. we have

a special program about him coming up soon on d 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 the symbolism was ruined by the nazis what this exhibition shows is how important 3rd reich design was in promoting its evil philosophy. national socialism a murderous ideology a machine of war and a brand the nazi party was keenly aware of its public image and used architecture and often disowning to strengthen its totalitarian state the swastika was the nazis most prominent logo sim.