my father taught me how to ask uncomfortable questions about my country and about the book that is why i keep doing to do my names that he stood for and i work at the. places g.w. news africa coming up in the next 15 minutes britain's a black teen will need became a laugh and to make way for british provocations they've taken to the un. and house and if you check dating back to the 1930 s we'll learn why some of the books have been burned in recent times. also coming up on the show. full sierra leone's. soldiers.

hello i'm christine want to welcome to news africa it's good to have you along a government in kenya has warned that british plantations face zimbabwe style farm invasions thousands of kenyans who say they were driven from their homes and a british colonial rule want to be compensated and they've taken the case to the u.n. travel to kitchener also known as kenya's capital because most of the tea that comes from kenya is growing but it is the biggest town in kitchell county cases in the highlands west of the kenyan rift valley there some of the to lie and people say they are still waiting for justice. amal's hardship and suffering has followed her dear to teach her entire life when she was just a child she was separated from her family together with thousands of to lie and

keep ciggies people she was expelled from her incest for lands at 96 years old she still vividly recalls the trauma of that experience. i don't remember the date. but the hour we were chased away was 4 in the afternoon . i was so frightened my stomach started aching and i started vomiting. lydia's parents were forcibly removed to so-called national reserves making way for acres and acres of profitable tea plantation today they are owned by multinational companies the deal stayed behind to work on one of the british states that she was repeatedly raped by her employer who got her pregnant. when the white man as she calls him a tech took for the 1st time she was only 13 years old and. there

was nothing i could do used a lot of force to overpower me. i didn't understand what was going on i was in a lot of pain and i was crying a lot. when kenya became independent in the 1960 s. video was left to fend for herself as an outcast with 3 biracial children and no money on land to live on to date she is one of more than 100000 victims who are demanding that a united nations special investigator open an inquiry into the plight of. british soldiers expelled families from their homes stole land and livestock and committed gross human rights violations all for the sake of planting this crop the victims of this land appropriation say there is blood in the to here they want reparations for them about treatment and above all an apology for the crimes

committed under the crown. brought me dixon a lawyer from the u.k. representing this complaint says it's time for redress though is also very opportune time because around the world states and various bodies or looking at past abuses clone your abuse and how they can be addressed that they call be swept under the carpet for both of. you know 94 year old keyboard and guess who still lives in can reach the last survivor of one of the big. potations to kwesi that was 934 many members of his family died he still hopes that complaint lodged with the u.n. will compel the u.k. to answer for its colonial crimes or cause their one. i feel so much pain while the british delaying compensation for those suffering and not giving back to us the land they took away from us until there's no one left to testify.

the other old man have died i'm the only one left to tell the suffering of quasi. like you brought in the dia and her daughter hope she'll be able to witness an apology. if they ask for forgiveness we will not refuse to accept. we will not refuse. lydia does know whether she will experience the return of her ancestry land but she will make sure that the story of the entities will live on until justice is served . and i guess today is a journalist and writer from the in northern nigeria side she covers topics like section of this gender based violence and feminism in northern nigeria welcome to

t.v. every africa pleasure is so excited to have you here so i actually want to talk about the fact that for the last few months of 80 years actually you've been studying house literature and in fact we have again or some of the books here what has surprised you most of all it's something that not just something i grew up reading something no grew up with for those who are researching this is actually the researcher so of course the interest was natural for me about this book and something of the reader so i think maybe this a presenter for me is not in the books actually is a dollar doesn't know much about it it's here you can take it public to read it there's a hole in source in london contained in does books but a lot of people don't wear words so i think there's a more surprise when they were talking about how so much literature in the house of people. they exist of course it has been exists so talk to us about some of the authors and all the writers and some of explored in the books well it's it's been a long history of how the ratings from the went into disrepair so with the with the

romans that write in which has been the most popular at and currently it's started in the late ninety's it is up to the ninety's with the bomb of the economy literature mostly the 3 most you can see is romance so it's called romance novels even the directors don't want that title to be used and was of dogs the most dramatic occupation of course is the romans but it brings are both oddest sections of the society or the too much to go around especially what i'm interested in is defending this the old view of this woman they don't know. they didn't i did for as famous because most of this writing is about the writer to empower the woman and that's why does that say to you know them and you sometimes try to shun try to bundy's because there's been a lot of book one incident in the past years because the books don't confronted in them so to say do something speaking about conforming to the normal society something that that you are here to tell us is that these books cover what you call that culture so to say. you say that that's something that's in these novels that go back as far as the 1930 s. elaborate on that for me specifically and the romance novels which i've been

studied so i was trying to write about how so women writers with the families of the on what i phone maybe a dozen of us a present in is some of the books of talking about the culture in northern and you know which is something that has been happening we've had a lot of what we called the. men who dress us female which we know in the society so because we didn't know what to do with homosexuals on a but can be identified as it was it would do a dismay in that it interfered them so this kind of things that explode the society tries to show it from that distance and i hope it so what i was interested open was to look at these books and see which of these books explored distillers and what was their actions of course there was a lot of but in the early 2000 i can imagine some of you have been to tehran which surprise surprise increase the readership of the book because people are interested to hear what's happening was in this book so that i mean you're obviously now bringing this to light yet again and i just wondered how that's being received

because you come from a part of the world that's massively conservative how do people react when you say to them actually this has been happening i think conservative is conservative in that way because learning from the other the it looks conservative but this is the literature as well as a mirror up to say to so it's not something that he did something that's happened and maybe you don't want to talk about and we don't want to relate with it we prefer the distance of the it's happening but let's not bring it out in the open maybe for me even that there. but you know we know it's happening but don't you think just pray do more than we're bringing it out in the open but i'm not just bringing it out into. talk about a minute i didn't. write said. thank you pleasure. in sierra leone soldiers have found a novel way to tackle post-traumatic stress disorder in a country still shaped by a traumatic civil war and the bold break soldiers are training in yoga to put the past behind them you create problems for your. people why do you do.

yoga mats fit young people in sports kit and a charismatic instructor but this is no ordinary yoga class these are sierra leonean soldiers and they're confronting a dark past. i still get i'm still traumatized but i am now able to control it because of how you're going to transform me when i'm in new person sierra leonean society bears deep scars civil war raged in the 1990 s. and 2 thousands rebel groups recruited young children as fighters in 2014 a bowler struck sauza and lost their lives or their loved ones the mental wounds linger on. using yoga to manage depression and trauma is the brainchild of army sergeant felix unmoved. by

a new gay i think. you don't always think about what has passed through the prison that is what i always. forget about what. you are i know you saw a lot quite a long day. think about what you are presently doing. yoga was virtually unknown in sierra leone but a u.s. study convinced the army it could help fix competence with depression and p.t.s.d. . did come up to see this you guys are a good source forgettable to what we've been seeing what you've been doing 5 years after the yogurt project started here it is providing respite for many long term it provides them with the hope of a path to recovery. thanks

. it's now to a challenge for guys only south african rugby player 5 s started the hash tag 5 challenge be bold enough to kick your balls he wrote on instagram he's calling on men to strip down to their undine's and check for signs of testicular cancer springboks captain said he was more than happy to take up the challenge posting the evidence that he too has a payoff speedo's in the national kalus fox website has all of the details the message is testicular cancer is curable if caught and treated early enough. and that is it for now from africa as always you can catch all our stories on our website and facebook page to leave you now with images of this in sierra leone film extract 5 back.

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