passenger jet liner. sturdy forces of the large reports of days live ammunition on protesters after a video emerged showing a woman who appeared for the sauce on the leg. this is the interview news live from berlin i'm brian thomas for the entire team thanks for being here we'll have more at the top of the hour. it's all happening to fit. your link to news from africa the world story link to exceptional stories and discussions continue and we'll come to the debut suffocating program tonight from one jenny phone uses easy to our i would say deputed could smash africa join us on facebook t.w. africa.

a new golden age of african culture has dawned even in hollywood black panther was the highest grossing film in the u.s. in 2018 and offered a challenge to western notions of africa and its history. class cantor was nominated for 7 oscars and won 3 an extraordinary achievement for a superhero film that also features a black majority cast. the. black panther was immensely popular with audiences around the world had launched a series of new cultural trends. close to the movie there were viral videos of people don't seem to destruction or so supposed to songs in america and in europe. why for me it's a revolution and afro revelled. there is

a generation that suddenly claiming its identity and identity that has always been there that they could not express in the past but it's. a renaissance of african pop culture is underway musicians from the continent and the african diaspora are working together more closely than ever and storming the music charts. for example pop star beyonce traveled to south africa to learn traditional choreography. the world feels like they need to know more about africa. cause other issues have been highlighted up out of africa and people don't see the light to fund side of last week out.

both exist. with. little bit of false hope all these seek to prove what was said before but. so i do show them. that to set me down. for sure mulder what we've the basic message to lucy that i can. see the people of. african culture is an important part of everyday life in the french capital paris in the early 19 eighties he became a salon a student from senegal started producing records there he founded his own label can see a laugh or 2 on the book his daughter into now heads the company she says siddharth has a lot in common with a legendary us label motown but i must stop because your. town has such a rich history so i like to compare us with them. let's enlarge has

a rich history as well as we've been around for nearly 40 years. and. tell it all started with eva he missed and the artists he produced. so now so yes i think you can draw a comparison between the 2 labels because they both have a very strong identity we always been. so big they are not above god with a sore point with us. these are records from the 1970 s. and eighty's the cover art for african albums has always been incredibly beautiful . the graphics for instance were amazingly creative going. through. these album covers are part of our cultural heritage. but one today's younger generation needs to learn about that. because all of the graphic designers. africans. sitting in pakistan if you. want that

you've got. a lot of people a massive i'm going to he must feel are they the foundations for the success of world music by producing records made by african artists and before anyone had heard the term world music. he was the only serious producer of african music at that time who could prevail alongside labels like peter gabriel's real world records all needing to be real world from peter gabriel. thank you thank you. thank you so much thank you thank ye. thank.

you so enjoy i started his 1st band to 979 and his music soon became popular throughout africa. back then his records were produced by people he must still love . to feel. sickened by myself and. i was part of the generation that reinvented them a lot from that. era of traditional senegalese music. so he choose to or senegalese dramas so this music was originally played by people in rural areas like this was. the source on this to the fact. in the 1970 s. various musicians reintroduced the traditional instruments of this music especially

the to madrasa. pool. and they combined the more fused them with contemporary styles like funk and rock and i think your whole. british musician and producer peter gabriel introduced you soon dora and many other african stars to western audiences this was the beginning of the genre that became known as world music. the only music the world music is actually an artificial concept and a commercial concept it dates back to the 1980 s. when peter gabriel founded his real world label and opened the door to a number of musicians from africa and india. gabriel wanted to break down geographical and ethnic barriers and present this urban electric music to

a wider audience the click of the back i think it. will be at about the same time my music from north africa also became popular in western europe. a week the day might be a lariat. of the music here. is the music of algeria it's also found in eastern morocco a new turn on the border with algeria and. traditional algerian music that talks about the everyday problems of ordinary people. screw. as riot became more commercially successful it moved with the times. yeah larry i'm one of us suddenly there were no more violins guitars and pianos and i started using synthesizers and arab drums and that's how the rice style evolved is that i

studied this exhibit a good bit of it. here a little. bit to. give it. to you but me it seems i got into writing music early on people like great italian ian ashame khalid then i tried rock for a while but i found that i enjoyed singing more and you know. who to finance our culture is shaped by our own heritage but i grew up between 2 worlds of. the german moroccan singer and actor you any represents a multicultural trend in contemporary society. interaction between the. areas cultures and musical genres is common today but 30 years ago chef khaled was

criticized for adapting his music to western tastes. 6 to dissociate to drill out july. this year. and going well no. you can't judge should judge your. age love your. passion for the ballot it's. as conservative islam gained influence in algeria ran musicians were threatened some were even murdered khaled moved to france in 1986 and found a new audience there for his music. and why the people like khalid or shared my me shaped and influenced my music they taught me to see things differently my music. was vaal issues if you.

get. your golf liang go there's a large magreb community in france most of them are all jerry and syrian. so we're unsure prodded me gave a concert in france the place was sold out. of this sub song plan but little by little more and more westerners discovered this music and they adored it something serious at the music is an otherwise it would. make us born in morocco is a star of the world music scene is a multi instrumentalist whose works with many different musicians including westerners take us is best known for his mastery of the traditional songs of north african spiritual music called.

loves you can i was in music school of the blues has the same mr is going our music it was originally the music of slaves. when i heard john lee hooker for the 1st time i said he's acknowledged to our master of where you're a mexican. if you mix our music with western harmonies it creates something new and rich is the answer. always sheila music. back us and the munich jazz granny weatherwax a prime example of intercultural cooperation. it's a good. cooperation of

a different kind was the 985 effort to raise money to help famine victims in africa a group of western superstars recorded a single and donated the proceeds to charity. their. performance included minus richie and stevie wonder. the song written by richey and michael jackson is called we are the world. they. want to. i. i. i. later that year many of the same singers performed the

song at the live aid benefit concerts. it's more to me what i was and i think that some of those involved in these efforts have a mistaken view of africa here in his own is that africa. i think the farms are going to be a lot of media around the world just africa's bad face the wars the famine and the problems so that's become the face of africa is that all pleasure in the movies are direct i. i. i feel a lot to do with this concert certainly saved a lot of lives again that it was quite an achievement. and those eyes but africa was itself a passive recipient and was not represented on stage but on the of the big you know . the little girl are

these i believe the 11th of february the belt. of freeman i think the 1st step i mean certainly most of our. lives. the release of nelson mandela from prison and the collapse of south african apartheid was a historic turning point and not just for africa i. i . live i live. by directing the allies did mandela's contribution was to provide guidance on how to overcome the racist system of colonialism and apartheid was essentially an offshoot of the colonial system this is this is called in the eye and he said the people should learn to interact with each other and forgive each other that's in

the month again in the mind of a number 2 kids. that south africa began to deal with its apartheid heritage a new musical genre that got its start in new york was spreading around the world. hip hop. is a phenomenon that expanded beyond music to include other forms of artistic expression if you can. we just want you to stay out of it if the cop was especially popular in africa. but with you there because of the electorate of. 4 there was a sugar hill gang. grandmaster flash. dollop of you by going to the smoke. break dancing and doing the smartest with the good dogs at school you organized dance performances. all of us had videotapes from europe or america or people from senegal like to travel. something starts in new

york or to say that their little turn up in dakar the same week that we were swept along by this wave and we're still writing it today and the rest of. the. legendary acts like you know what it's it's one you're seeing in the u.k. . they went to harlem where they were fighting and the christian system in this space so there was discus movement told go in for a little preserve space and to to be free. in a city boy don't. rap arrived in senegal it made sense to us it was like it was already in our d.n.a. . yeah self-expression through vocals backed by rhythm and many africans could identify with that. was that it got to where the hip hop became so popular in senegal because our traditional music is just like rap. but with different

percussion it really is. the. claiming while following the rhythm he wants the same technique as round with the non-technical guiding. senegal was initially the center of african hip hop that the bad positive black soul had a massive influence i can sort of black soul or p.b.s. for sure it was founded in 1989 but i did hey i want to be and i'm not too bad i. were among senegal's 1st hip hop stars their music included political and social activist messages. raskin didn't report it's because the people of senegal have the right to freedom of expression so young people started talking about what was going on at home and

on the street journalists or musicians wouldn't talk about these things but rap did we simply. live. in senegal there's youth movement made a big contribution to the change of government in 2000 young people have made the country more aware of social and political problems so he put it on the spot and they've done it through a very powerful medium music. and especially hip hop that music but. in 2020 they played an even bigger role that the president wanted a 3rd term which is forbidden by the constitution that really. puts it.

first to try to change the electoral law groups including m $23.00 and organized public protests against that proposal in a kind of insurrection so the president withdrew it. i. senegal is the only country in the world where hip hop helped change the government. thanks in large part to the influence of hip hop thus it's now much more acceptable for people to criticize government officials. in many african countries but not all there are now more opportunities for public discussion. so now the ideas of the independence era and demands for more independence from the west are being seen by the new light. gets tough the.

hip hop has helped to awaken the spirit of democracy in senegal people are much more willing to speak out against political leaders and the legacy of the post-colonial system. the studio portraits of black leaders whom he admires. the studio is named for thomas some compound the charismatic former president. was assassinated during a military coup in 1987. and

positive black soul remain at the forefront of the african hip hop movement. but it's you know it's impressive. when you tour africa you meet people everywhere who have exactly the same cultural codes it's a universal culture and it's huge in loam. another key figure in the african rap movement is made thinking he was born in congo but his parents moved to paris when he was an infant he was part of an influential french hip hop collective called sexy all decile. but your. mom ok just you're. a democrat won't be easy it will come out the bridges he

gave it was a. little bit cold it was. the. only new anything. but he said. something that was it. one of the interesting thing about this group is that almost all of them are young people of african descent. or from congo guinea or senegal. come into. the lisa. has often been compared with the. we all come from paris and was a major employer. may take is one of the few french speaking rappers who's worked with english language artists for example sting and weighing. his last 2 albums rose quickly to number one on the french charts back together his

story leads from kinshasa to paris to the heights of international part of my. days although i felt it would be interesting to highlight the exchanges that continue between african artists and africans in the diaspora. i wanted to do something coherent that would show the connection between these 2 groups. but i especially want to have a dialogue about rap and about a complex african identity it will be an african. one of the featured artists on the scilab label is french rapper m.h.d. . he's developed a genre called afro travel which incorporates elements of west african music and languages.

goes on. i contemporary african art has become quite popular in western europe over the past few years. a recent exhibition at the phone. and paris focused on artworks from congo. paintings that depict scenes of everyday life known as pent up popularity that tracked a lot of attention. to the axis put to death most of the artists of a kind your poker player were. in advertising and their paintings became well known through an exhibition that was held in kinshasa in 1988. these works were inspired by the lives of average people particularly city residents who could. then you. have to let. go and take. on the tech their works often integrate commentary texts

that address issues of congolese society or politics. and make that seem easy to poke at the time the term banter a properly or didn't really exist these works were simply called naive for pictures for the un educated. in. african art has since conquered the global art market previously mostly found in ethnological museums the works began to reach a wider public in contemporary galleries including tend to of popular these paintings often address social themes of congolese urban life and politics. believe him unless you see this painting with mandela is called dignity for africa and it shows mandela with obama. with obama suggesting that mandela is a good role model for african presidents

a lot of leaders are still in power even though their mandate have expired. but mandela did the opposite going through this. since the end of apartheid in the early 1990 s. south africa has played a key role in the development of african pop culture this includes the rise of electronic dance music. d.j.'s played a lot of house music for some reason so what they used to do is they used to take the house records and slow them down when they took. the wood songful those house at a low key. yeah and the jews their own beats them in the border quite. the 1st take quite a hit was arthur muffle carter's kaffir from 995 the song protesting the use of racist slurs captured the imagination of the post apartheid generation.

so things are difficult just have that the connection with house research that's going back a long time and that's why you see you do just like black coffee rising out from house music. black coffee as one of south africa's most popular d.j.'s his concerts always draw huge crowds i black coffee specializes in tribal vocalist beats and played a key role in the development of african house music and 2012 his d.v.d. and triple cd called africa rising when double platinum in just one month i. mean.

black coffee do their farewells and we do offer different people go out into the world if plants new seeds of information to make that a mom like black coffee spoke my tombo has stayed outside the musical mainstream he specializes in a ditch. plus route sounds that he calls township tech. and he hardly performs and so therefore could but it performed at the glastonbury and to conform at huge festivals in europe.

disturbing images designed to shake dealers out of their complacency spook matam creates musical and visual landscapes that depict life as he sees it. we come from a pretty. hard caress the. violent history of cultural imperialism show or i'll use my work at heart to stick practice as a constant form of discovering culture and recreating and rewriting and stop the culture at least so for me i express my culture and my lack of culture in terms of . south africa like much of the continent faces a number of serious problems including crime corruption and poverty. it's disgusting for some people talk too much for some people who have nothing but

it's a level of violence from someone and it's not. it's possible to slot a black and white figure not just about the house of the house but. the gap between rich and poor in south africa has led to social isolation. we have all mile long in group meetings with all 3 wealthy people lock themselves up in their gated communities but building walls isn't the solution. people have to ask themselves whether this is the sort of society that they really want to listen to other good news on possible in the. the equitable distribution of wealth and natural resources is a problem that countries all around the world will have to deal with more and more . there was also the question of justice in regard to art. a number of african states have demanded the return of indigenous

african artworks looted by the colonial powers many of these works are now on display in museums. spiritually it is you rob people of their spirituality. it goes way beyond just stealing an object it's spirituality a cult it's the saw the very essence of their humanity has been stolen and exhibited vulgarly in a museum museum. this theme even comes up in the hollywood blockbuster black panther good morning. how can i help here on the 2nd of these artifacts they're beautiful. or is this one for the bobo ashanti tribe present day gone or 1000 century or. what about this one. once from the edo people if they need 16th century.

now tell me about this one. also from the name 7th century through the tribe i believe. on trip on the take it off in heels for you. these are things are for sale i don't think you got the eggs they paid a fair price and they take it like they took everything else. in 2018 french president emanuel mark karr commissioned art historian benedict savoir and economists tell me inside to study options for the return of african artworks they recommended unconditional restitution of all that it works. it is essential for the african community to recover objects that are part of their cultural heritage and support so that they can relate that heritage that all the problems that they face today. africans need to restore this connection to their creative spiritual cultural and historical power trio contro story.

out of this is when we have to come to terms with this historical situation and put an end to it about haps and i would hope you can help us to redefine our relationships which involve the plundering of this cultural heritage but we have to create new conditions in which these artworks and the cultural heritage that they represent can help to redefine the relations between the different groups of people that you put in one so i distribute sure a few less shortly. this is i moved to the symbolic importance of this situation cannot be overstated europe will be forced to confront its colonial heritage in

a new way $1000.00 that. this is the museum island in central berlin germany. it's also dealing with the heritage of colonialism a number of german museums house collections of african art works and experts must now determine where they came from and decide whether to return them. berlin's new home for a museum set to display several 100 african works known as pinning bronzes they were seized in 897 by british troops in an attack on the kingdom of benny in modern day nigeria and german middlemen sold some of them to museums around the world. for shock value if the 2 most suggested that we return these items immediately then borrow $200.00 art objects from nigeria and pay them a rental fee was signed if they could use the money to improve their museum facilities it wouldn't be a good we'd simply pay them what we owe the. country do think to africa and i mean

us and if nigeria generously agrees to this we could display these works even though we stole them and changed the name of the home board forum to the benny inform gets our tongue and then we have this one word for the movie and for the important. part when it comes to european history we only talk about half the global stories successful developments like the enlightenment improvement of human rights in postwar economic prosperity as if we achieved it all ourselves. from what we don't talk about colonial exploitation which helped to create enormous wealth in europe and. this in turn created the conditions in which philosophers like a manuel khan to could develop their ideas and groomed think really count concept into. here in berlin the history of german colonialism is still visible in some

street signs. that are not baghdad. then in the midst of an actual these are substantial reminders of the colonial past. and people are still discussing how we're supposed to deal with this legacy. systems that see if inflation they might win. because it's a question is why are we still honoring those who played a role in germany's violent past the entire divide for life wish to. talk. to some of africa's top stars are playing here in central park land. this is for their 70 from tanzania. to something. that is nothing. like that so many. things are. real spirit of africans in berlin tonight. yeah you feel.

really nice to be here let's do this. i'm going to keep the body you know exactly what i'm thinking when it comes. to see her is that the. yes i was going to go in and tell me take it down see you want. to think. bill clinton said m.d.c. is the reigning queen of bongo flavor tanzania's version of hip hop she sings fluently in 3 languages english french and her native swahili. these days a lot of african bands are marketed as international pop instead of world music and they're hoping to change the way people in the west think about africa.

is not only about the things that the world know poverty in all of that but they can actually make good music. as one half of the legendary south african vocal duo called muffy keys oh no they started out in 996 and over the years their style has moved away from point 0 toward afro pop. but. i like that yeah yeah yeah yeah. i've heard his music stars are breaking down international barriers and playing their songs to an ever widening audience. if you would think back to his kids 1st big single or do i let but it was a song that was very much about my carrying the story of coming from a tough place and making it through the space race if you. no the lyrics and the

context and the slant was very local nigerian. but. i wasn't trying to do a song for an english or dance for the english food is to understand but then you go to a club in london and when the song comes on everybody in the club whether the nigerian take the scots is whatever they sing along to the words of the song. and we have the right songs and the right on system to deliver the songs then there's no reason why as much as kids you have kids in germany was singing dispersed seatle there's no reason why there might not be singing so he feels we finally found the right concoction of talent. production and. elements that made us pop stars enough to appeal to

a foreign market. the faces a number of serious problems but there are good reasons to be optimistic about the future western countries would do well to reexamine their relationship with africa and develop new narratives that find common ground and create new opportunities for cooperation. the truly human race is still developing and one of our tasks may be to take humanity to another level i think africa could serve as a laboratory for reinventing politics society culture and economics it could be kelly when it's all caught up with. the new africa a continent of seemingly boundless imagination and right now there is every indication that africa will have a much larger role in determining its own future. while if you we can regain what is rightfully ours we can use our culture to colonize the

rest of the world so to speak with our music dance on our drums and other instruments we are now taking back what is ours africa is the future. but the question remains with the rest of the world follow africa's lead. so i would be able yes a reevaluation of africa's place in the world is already underway and not just in terms of economic output we are making contributions in music culture and social interaction things that are fundamental for our purpose in life what is one of economy and ecology are the conditions of our existence but other things are important slaps we need to reverse our perspective and place of being over having the perspective that led to our love for.

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