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she's good football ending it was this big bulletin so. it can only be positive i will take responsibility if it backfires in the end was that's raise some eyebrows among clone fans but if their team can crash the bye and party with an away win then surely it would be deserving of all well off. switch that's over now up next is they doubly news africa station for that and don't forget you can always get all the latest news and information around the clock on our website that's d.w. dot com. welcome to the book is the game here for adults. to talk about something. that's a little. more. with
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your family scattered across the globe. to do to. turn back to the roots. of the. family from somalia live around the world. needed urgent assistance of. family starts october and. this is state of the news that coming up in the next 15 minutes the ones calling for action today still the largest global climate crisis in history will meet some of the applications. and the missing zimbabwean dr we told you about on monday has been found funded in how to fill us in on the debate. didn't see. highest grossing me produce film in nigeria
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i'll be talking to the director can be. hello. welcome to news africa it's good to have you along the biggest climate protest in history happened today with millions of people across the will taking to the streets the demonstrations mostly comprised of schoolchildren all part of a movement sparked by the swedish teenager. in kenya climate change protesters gathered in. in nairobi to call on the government and the private sector to take action on the issues they were also pretty. and uganda now the biggest polluter on the continent is south africa which ranks 14th in the world
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that's mostly because of all the coal the country. funded was at the protest and. hundreds of people here in cape town are marching to the end of the country today but why are they you know why are they demonstrating let's see what they have to say because we are the future. yes it's important the government sees that the people of this country care and that they demand action. in this country demonstrations they were pretty well you know the people this country have a long history of. of showing their voice and selves on the street and so i think it's important to do it that way and hopefully we can get the message to the government and they can act like for me i'm not the guy you know. this is an issue that really affects us all so i really came to march so i decided to come new you know be a part of something there. to change we need to actually fix this environment
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because in the long run it's going to affect us negatively as was kids and if you don't stop the way we mean the environment is going to be missed so the people here in cape town know what climate change means they faced a massive droughts 2017 and 18 last year cape town was almost the 1st big city in the world to run dry back then water was rationed to 50 liters per person per day now the down around 80 percent of their capacity to reach again so the situation improved but the water is still a big issue here people are talking about it everybody knows the problem persists and sound panacea are saying that this water scarcity is an issue that keeps on facing cape town. oh on monday we brought you the story off. these the bobby a doctor who was feared kidnapped after he went missing over the weekend the 25 year old has since been found. disappearance was bobby and doctors and nurses walk
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off the job to demand he say friction they held demonstrations and of the slogan no pizza nowhere and correspondent privilege mustang g.t. is in had at me with the basis on that story had privileged get to see you what more do we know now about what really happened to the doctor. yes we know that at the moment he is a hospital in a private hospital in harare where he's going through medical treatment ways going through an examination of his physical and mental health when he was discovered yesterday 40 kilometers an hour on the outskirts of already in a place called yet bitter you managed to speak to some local media but then he said that you could not recall licked what happened to him and who took him and how he ended up to the place where us discovered yesterday.
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you may know this already but nigeria's nollywood is one of the largest movie producing industries in the world 2nd only to india's bollywood now it's set to produce around 3000 movies every year in a moment i'll talk to one of the industry's most successful female directors but 1st here's the story of how produces a working to raise the quantity off nollywood films. are actually. welcome to the heart of the african film industry nigerian film company founder marian who knows the business like the back of her hand she has witnessed the industry's evolution thanks to affordable digital filming and editing technologies the movie's quality has improved. the 10 years ago. molly wood was. different very different i saw them after.
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i was a child actor and trust me it was not like this today we should be better camera as we were called or do you separate from the picture we do things just differently so in 10 years time. the industry will be really really different and we are really going very. little work has attracted the attention of a foreign investor her company was acquired by the french broadcaster cannot use. this is the 1st time you get people. become like kind of clues saying you guys are doing something you guys are doing something valuable something we need this is the 1st time. the world is really seeing as in scene one molly wood has gone like. this is like a success for export of nollywood constant. for decades nollywood as
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a discipline early known was seen as a factory turning out visual pulp fiction for the market stalls of t.v. pirates films ranging from body companies to morality tales about witchcraft and into dela t.v. today it's the 2nd largest film market in the world. nollywood movies are still made on shoestring budgets and every production takes just 10 days and costs approximately $15000.00 u.s. dollars yet they're into it far beyond nigeria's borders. you can see about a lot of. actors are. working with people also because you think a lot of actors outside the country want to come here and work with nothing like express our culture. you know and put. money what is growing fast much to the delight of all nigerian filmmakers. as promised my next guest is the
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director of the highest grossing domestic film in a nigerian history it's called the wedding party can be edited by joins me now from lagos welcome to do africa came in fact before we get to talking i just want to see it except off that film and we'll pick up from the. present mima. don't calm down i got out we think i'm. the only person who has been kidnapped this month. by that view so. all right can you so what was it about this film that made it big hits that it was . oh our wedding party won i think it was just people just about how authentic it was it was a unapologetically nigerian and the shit was in our goods crazy yards ridges and if any if we can learn anything from the sea back then we got from
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viewers connected with them in the respect that they felt you could see themselves and a lot of the family members in a lot of our leading characters and human form of that. was it was the same thing and other people that couldn't connect to it in that way like that was some sort of a window into another world another culture so yeah we're very proud of that one yet secondly i mean let's talk about viewers right i mean we talk about nollywood and the filmmaking machine that it is today but truth be told if largely appeals to an african audience and i wondered if if not it was ok with that or if a is to is to change that. i mean i don't think there's anything on this earth that would want the it's not just a chapel it makes you feel there's some time you know some sort of validation this is not some sort of you know so it's an ego trip but. i mean i was having
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a conversation with someone earlier from your station and like you know it's a my blood doesn't care because lately it's been able to affect the distribution in the house i think one of the things that we need to to focus on is that we would like. them as of right now we haven't been into perfect distribution within africa so what ends up happening is even though a few of the meetings are really risky as it is right now in africa as you know more buddhist because you're not sure that more investment will be able to come back out and then this is why totally lie a lot on. external brains or external i want to external investments and things like that so what have i been we need to fix this region in africa so that we could tito who ourselves that anything outside of that is just it's a politician and nice to have ok let's talk about investment because we're seeing growing interest in nollywood to the tune off european broadcasting is buying up
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all acquiring local production companies do you see that as a positive development. yes i mean i think it goes into into the hands. anything that brings investment into the industry helps us creates more quality movies and things like that which in turn moves the industry for that's a great thing i don't however feel that we need to be mindful that you keep a bit of ourselves or a lot of ourselves for ourselves there's a list something that we are displaying that the international market and international world is seeing and the words are quite off and we need to be aware of that now let's switch of the word let's switch towards snowflake gold and we have to be careful that we're not so not going to we have to be careful there and also in the rights to mine our goals for absolutely nothing but we should be more
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about collaboration exchanging ideas excluding expertise and that should be encouraged or i can get it. that's all we have time for today hopefully we can get you back on to talk about your your film that's just debuted on netflix that's kemi editor in nigeria thank you. thank you. and that is it for now from deja vu news africa as always you can catch all stories on our website and facebook paper always interested to know what you think about the stories we cover a gallon every news africa and perhaps stories that we should be covering because we've been talking all that much about it all you would leave you with some screen shots. produced by the industry it's all next time i.
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