next generation. music channels available. and more determined to build something here for the next generation. the environment series of 3000 on t.w. . hello and welcome to the 77 percent i was so full. i you under 35 years old then you up 77 percent of africa's population and you are right please this show is all about you coming up on today's program in canada we ask young creatives and critical people what defines our economy identity. we need

a paralympic champion things wind up. and we explore the angolan capital one that we can bank on to cradle. but fast let me ask you a question who gets to decide how a free car and its history is put treat up until this point in time most history books on africa have been returned from a western point of view foothill were especially there are very few books which tell the story of all continent from our own perspective but finally changing south african his story i know my longer tees it has taken matters into her own hands and published how on african history book for keep. well. let's return to eternity but today she's providing help to south africa's leak long island girl who out. without.

i.v. and. the fricken historian. hopes to prepare her daughter for the future by teaching her the history of white people. based on my own experience as an african that the one thing that africans value that has and put them through centuries of pain is knowing where they are and where they come from. the university professor discovered that african history books written for kids for most exclusively focused on egypt she wanted to paint a broader picture about the continent past she wants to cover everything from ancient history to more contemporary independence movements. when africans are clear about their history and about where they come from and the origins and their different mythologies we do way better as kids in school we do way better as students at university and we do. far better in the world in terms of being

innovators when we know our history. no longer also realized that there were no history books that children in africa could really. just she was determined to prove the. industry to a friend. to develop a comic book for children in african history just trying to represent visually. elements of african history so that kids can. kind of get a feel for it through the visual. but not in the way that. african people knowing this approach is simple shows kids and young adults a different perspective on african history the subject of slavery for example is looked at from a much broader perspective and doesn't just focus on africa. she shows that humans

have been cruel to one another everywhere throughout history this is an important message in a country like south africa where traces of its colonial past can still be found everywhere. no longer stresses that this alternative perspective was sorely missed and up until now given in schools but now that those like those in the fun in not losing congreve school absent progress i want to know more about african. because it is my crouch no one in this book embraces african history and culture plus it comes to issues ranging from the rise of mission civilizations country to slavery colonialism struggles for independence unfitness africans. and it's really mean spin and it teaches people about cultures yet i feel chilly because we don't have books like. dogs have books and no millennium

and that's confident that her efforts to pay off the popularity of property is to rise and perhaps one day how walk when it will become compulsory in schools across africa. if that report got you curious to know all about some of the most famous personalities across africa's history it also check out the w's online multimedia project if we can. that leads me to our next big question what are the roots of identity. our reporter edith kemeny went to our home city nairobi to find out and she's joined by a special guest the end i bar as a member of one of africa's most popular boy buns. i've heard it said before afro pop afro future is in even it seems that recently

there is i might even go as far as call it an obsession of africans to attach their identity to the works of a do and i'm wondering why why is african identity so important who better to answer this question for me than some young africans and one of them actually named his album very audacious title live and die in africa so we're going to start with you being an african story is our story told by us as told by us because with no hold on so if d.w. is a source let's put ourselves let's put ourselves on the line here d.w. is providing the platform d.w. certainly not african but this is the african story told by we are the ones who are telling you what we are about ok so the african story is the studio told by the people of africa to resign 11 efficient house as no no no it doesn't shock me has asked another question who is. my question is was asked because. i know a great group how many how many generations is it take to be defined as african is

what i want to know. ok does anyone have an answer to that question how many generations does it take for you to be defined as african assuming that your background or what we call your indigenous roots are not african any answer any takers i don't think it's enough for you to see yourself as an african the african people the community that you're in has to see you as an african you get it has to be a 2 way thing and sundress is a very philosophical so to be is to be perceived to be african is to be perceived and i can just insert myself into africa and feel african oh my god i feel african no it has to be you. the people who you found there do they see you as africa doesn't have to take generations i think we have people who have lived in kenya for 10 years right now and they see themselves as africans it's actually how you. try to how you see yourself how you respect the culture how you respect their cage and what makes you feel as if it doesn't have to be seems that we are very sensitive

about the ownership of this identity so when other people lay claim to it we get a little edgy about it why are we so sensitive about identity because of colonialism and having to deal with imperialism we are extra touchy about the subject of african identity we have completely embraced. sort of dispositions when it comes to how we choose to govern ourselves but somebody might hear you say that and say well you are influenced by the west you're hearing some of western ideas having this conversation in english. being the conversation in the english trade so yeah i get it and so that's the thing i don't actually believe that even 2019 and in the centuries to come that there would still be this thing called african identity because of globalization essentially but this idea of african is it is one that rules be depleted in the years to come you don't agree and i don't argue that

. i think it's because of the influence and the pressure in the context of globalization that's the precise reason why people hold on to their identity if if there's a force that's that's homogenizing everyone making it run the same then what makes you unique becomes that much more important but it feels that oh well that's who is really not on your mind and body isn't really you know you're not happy bunny here you know what i find it funny that none of us have talked about how the fact that african identity is also been tied to our struggle we have not had a conversation about privilege we've not had a conversation about this our skin tone let's have it. and the fact that our skin tone in all its melanie to forms has been the subject of prejudice has been the subject of slavery for 100 plus years and that that also contributes to what we consider ourselves to be there anything to do will always have a passion attached to our identity no but that bad or pressure and those outside forces the same way that

a diamond is formed by outside pressures can i get away with something. that has played a role in shaping what we have so we are very very sensitive about holding on to it because so much has been taken from us that we are like ok what do we have all right we have our skin tone ok we have our sense of rhythm ok we. got. a pounded yam you know so we have all these things that we happen to celebrate and we're happy to adorn but when people wear them on them in a way as though they're celebrating it's we call it appropriation of misappropriation the reason why the line is drawn when gucci for example who decides to go in with a good thing and then. you know presentation of the and then go oh my god mazing but no africans actually the most people who do it is of the formal fabric and i'm going to benefit from it that some. touching is just bouncing which is feet if you like it seems ok ok ok ok look so you guys heard recently that awkward

moment i was trademarked yet if you like you're not been. a monkey for your benefit have been because maybe 3 years from 19 which means no worries in africa which is very revealing and it shows that where we need to step up legally as africans is we kind of need to be able to get a heavier presence in terms of trademarking in terms of cooperating in terms of seeing what we have in the little things that we have potential exports or whatever the only reason i say that is because someone else is going to do it so what did she says about. africans having a more kind of like legal and copyright presence or strategy is good but i also think that the people who are stealing should stop stealing right so if you have a house which has valuable things in it and someone comes and breaks in and things your stuff is right. who did the wrong thing was it wrong for you to have things in

your house or was it the thief who shouldn't have come to steal the right the reason why africans don't copyright everything is because it doesn't occur to us that these things are. wrong but i just want to ask you guys that question one more time why is african identity so important africa has been the site of upon theft up on. and that sense of loss has been part of our history for centuries really and it's in this moment of globalization cup late stage capitalism is when it's becoming more intense right and so the reason why we are looking to what makes us different is because that's how for us to become human human has been identified with not africa right that that in the category of human black does not exist african does not exist in order for you to be human you have to be white or white adjacent right and so we are here expanding the category of human to include africa

while that was that was that was that hit me right here and that's a great place to wrap up this conversation and i suppose we can all agree that it's very complex and i'm not entirely sure we fully answer that question but i think one thing we can agree on is that african identity is important because it affirms that we were and like christine the background said it affirms that we still are thank you so much for tuning in that was so exciting i'm actually a little exhausted just from all the thinking thanks for joining us. thank you wow now that was an important discussion to have if you want to add your thoughts you can engage in the debate on a facebook page and you can also watch a longer version of that street debate on youtube. now let's head to rhonda like in many other countries life with a disability here is still anything but easy when tears then became disabled he

was forced to live on the streets but a few years later his life took a surprising time. least some killers like you cannot make it up to the physical address. each possible run for political leadership which operates to international sports competition that's good so it's also about inner strength children if kids like this teacher. it's a cool moment of gosh for you to know when i was it is world a good point you put that this is affected one leg when i was taken to the hospital or seem to injections all suddenly also my succumb like i was affected the most why i have a disability often makes people go grandma grandma. eat warm only choked me up into both of these are very nice tears jane some sort of primary school and another there was no one taking care of the it was wasn't even mistakes. but i was

i slept on the outside for in the houses sometimes even in goddess katina's where i was looking for some left over such a meter for my life as a small child getting work was not. worth your. while not much of the commute getting limited these rights would have been no government as it was all inclusive no insurance in the disability flows in the face of the stigma and weenie end up in the street with bernie mcconnachie to the office of my mother i think it was what a new mom would need in my local shop one of her millions for and have a child with disabilities but this child to suffer from the quirk or even in the society it is treated like as her physical problem being to suck up. to france every day not stupid here's james a train on the streets when he was a teacher no 114 to confuse me. i just society's 2 on the road

the street child next protect himself against threats from others. you know that's why i started training i wanted to become stronger to protect myself in times of trouble no no no i support mohan down down down on some guy. in 2003 good night. sleeping in a very big self-made jeep a politician approached him he could become part of the national team for a politician to say thank you bonnie is old and went to his father it's national competition the olympic games in. colorado get what i started slipping into front what else is life to suddenly great to have nice from the even give me new clothes are now in. the commonwealth games continental competition even the party and extrinsic 12th in london till james stop to go what.

will be its costs money and other professional sports what he could spend he's a full house and by transport my kids to it it got it up and this is my pride of credit for people who want to transport would put a couple of my bike and get transported for them but sally and i live in the market on a bus when i needed it and. today the budget devaney it was too shaky the strain on the mall to be turned into one of the others are getting in touch with what i want to sleep in such a. good little children. getting just like a brother to me a friend who will i have today i have because of feel thanks to him i'm a professional sportsman should be the reason my mom who doesn't know it will be a mess has. seen a regularly in fights young people up the street to

a free training and even for a woman he hopes to try. and the people with a disability will have the same opportunities like everyone that all of his friends can and. now have to jiggle a letter in a place where they welcome to pass a disability to sports and help them realize the dreams of complected a father and mother because most of them could not want school. by the afghan government. until his vision becomes a reality t.v. seen in the us in about 2 months because we're in a one out of town. what an inspiring story but remember it's up to us as a society to ensure people with disabilities have the same approach unities as everyone else. moving on to the capital. it's famous for being the world's most expensive. but there is so much more to this day now.

local d.j. . is the voice of a popular radio show in the wind he took us on a possible to out of the he's a fascinating hometown. morning and a very particular sound is spreading. is the sound of. radio show we will be a little everywhere. a little the. 2 same. for 6 times a. week when they're done with a little bit not there but you still think you're biting commentary on all sorts of topics close to the. 6000000 inhabitants one is a city full of contrasts where the country's many natural resources have made some

people reach that's not the case for the vast majority of the population. is our guide for the day. after i get on then i sail on to. the next. is a colonial fortress remind us of course everywhere but their heroes no longer play this towering role in an independent and cold steel piece is the one that the tourists get to see we're heading off the beaten track. by most enron where you want to. get a. look at my area and. but how many. how big is a typical no say that's what the one does slums a court

a house around 80 percent of the one does population. i. guess as we go. down here are you going to last about. the. the cost to. eat. that this is also where. he's buddies make music several popular songs have been produced right here perhaps the most successful was angola. it's about everything that is going wrong in the country problems in the education and health systems the rise in crime and the lack of police action. in and day out all known to every.

anyone taking a stroll along the imagine no one does grand probably not it is probably not doing too badly for themselves right. then. but it's not. everywhere there are new buildings powerful companies above all the oil companies time was about the cost all for a minute it's an untold in dubai fantasy the country's wealth is enormous but very few people see any of that hotel room in the one that can easily set you back $1000.00 a night and in the fancy beach boasts we have a well paid experts congregates lunch can cost $100.00. for. the one is the most expensive city in

the world that's of dubious on a. city 2 ends in the so called didn't wander through hundreds island which is actually a peninsula nevertheless it has a beautiful beach where young people meet in the evening to enjoy the sunset then ok i eat if they don't seem to be one. astray running this is. truly. loves his city with all its contrasts and romantic moments quite the source of inspiration for a passionate review d.j. . that looked gorgeous thank you for showing us around. if you have any recommendations for seating as we should visit or even choose we should kava just get in touch via facebook and you can always watch more quantum's on youtube that's from me but don't go away just yet you already met b.n.

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