i'm selfish even though we're overpopulated. what women experience when they choose not to have children. you. know crime fighters are back with africa's most successful radio drama series continues in the only persones are available online course you can share and discuss on w africa's facebook page and other social media platforms crime fighter 2 mean. so if i were a superhero this is what i would look like and my name would be. we clearly have something special prepared for you on the show but i'm not going to give away too much yet i mean my good genia and you're welcome for that 77 percent . as usual so they show

it's packed with amazing stories from all over the african continent and we have the special guest joining us in the studio needs after a chat. from nigeria to find out with comic republic that got 5 out of africa will be talking about that comic on creative arts industry in africa. because. last but not least. for. now just like you i grew up watching batman superman and all those other superheroes now that was cool but the only problem was they did not look like me so i couldn't really identify with them if you know what i mean but there's a new group of super he was in. on his team of young comic i've created the only universe of african superheroes watch out gotham city legacy is taking over.

it got them city of west africa was around 14000000 people live here but there are no superheroes to be found they lived far away in america and be out white. ones to change this by making comments in africa he's fulfilling a child who i think was about 5 years old my mom would buy me comic books and our troops every single one i completely ruined the comics yeah that's basically how i don't. put a piece of paper on the phone make them out of my pencil heard them out 1st day with a print of the back of my do we go to a school just b.c. troops. are. prime and all of a nigerian superheroes hop brought to life here in the comic the public studio a kind of alternative african marvel universe in many ways under the watchful eye

of today he has since moved to london with a hope to supply us from lagos will soon achieve an international bridge to see. one of my major become a couple begins to push the african continent and the continent you know to the world. and to do that you need infrastructure much infrastructure that we can find back home in nigeria you know london is. just right but what do people think of comic books back home. in the slums make us up nice to us what a case think if only they had own superpowers just like the cocktails whence you once again see i was thought did i know you did give the police many of the gag dang you why did. you change i'll speak to you. if you were in

lagos i'll tell him to do so many tea because nigeria no real. to me the want i would do more than they would make sure that we know how much you . even businesswoman isabella can identify with a superhero and. not only white people could be superheroes but africans would you know we we have you know you can see how. powerful she really. didn't matter and believes public republic is successful because it closest i got. i strongly believe that people approach when the if you can force him to put the focus. you know weld off mainstream comics comic republic sees itself as an alternative we need to take one for the night and so the future is become

a public figure a movie screen for good t.v. showing you can be on mobile phones to be in people's homes i mean people's feet you know we see our freedom from it you see our cocktails as a bridge between i prefer the world in general we can all be here i don't have to have superpowers to do good that's what outcome except. i gave. about some cool stuff here is the man behind the africans if i can do you know a lot and welcome to the sense of you know ok so you believe that nigeria and indeed africa should have its own supply why is that so important it's necessary for any people or any tribe or any race to have an icon status look like them people become local trans pirates. so. if someone says ok why can't we just stick

to batman and superman is that a big deal you know there's always that thing about identification you know when when it's for a 1000000 when you when you can see yourself in that thing then it becomes easy for you to believe in that they enter aspired to it so it's necessary that people of color you know you see people of color or diversity no matter where you are being represented and for it to give you something to look up to now tell us about comic republic what exactly goes on that comic republic is a group of individuals that have come together basically to tell the africans to react to push the african narrative in the right light so that the world can see how awesome the continent is not just the negative stuff but the positive stuff as a good summary of all that the rest of us is how many are very busy yeah yeah yeah yeah it is i mean we spend the whole day you know people think we're just drawing but no we actually have the stories of a whole generation of people to convert we have loads to tell where always creating

and it's so much work but it's fun that's into it as the most important having fun while working now you didn't really go to a school to learn all of this right or not and now for young people watching us now what are we saying then is it ok to just have the talent and do with it or would we encourage them to go to school to addle that there's something i always say that show me somebody would go and build eventually trump anybody would just talent so i mean when i started we didn't have a low fifty's to look for but there's the internet these days there's something else that is the school of you choose right so i would advice anybody you know about to get talent and then when you've got make it a skill and that way you will always be on top i see school of you tube i think that's that's something just so you have moved to london writes. why would you need nigeria to go to london what really made you make that move the dream of chemical problem was to put africa. stories on the map and to take africa to the world and

unfortunately there isn't enough infrastructure in nigeria or government support for us to be able to do that and i've taken here as far as i can in nigeria and then i move to london you know to be able to get the infrastructure there to be able to take me or big to where it's supposed to be which is a global brand and ours are going so far. i mean if the structure. is doing well yeah well yeah we do talk in our problems that there are many other challenges facing their creativity industry for instance in kenya and kwai from cameroon makes more money renting out is a good grandstand through the movies he makes why is that. they can movies where we don't make any money out of me to happen is we have no support you have no funding i don't if is crazy if you that you are stupid especially when you are doubt educated when you physically mentally able to do

something and then then when the passion is what drives you when the enthusiasm is what drives you it becomes very difficult for some folk for if you make a income or 2 want to do something because you feel like you make it is who you are . so so we had a clearly talk about some of the challenges talking about funding and of course like you rightly said infrastructure now how do you imagine companies like yours survive or go around these challenges ok so 1st things 1st i think if you provide what investors need you need to as a creative use distill the incubator process for africa we need to prove that it can be a product started a creative come out you know it be from the creative space and go into you know the commercial space and provide value for investors right we need to build the business and when it's a business who fund investors and things when. one fast you know what one challenge

that i have is it seems that across africa when when you tell someone a i draw on a creative artist it seems people have this sort of negative perception about it how do we change these mindsets oh that's a very interesting question i think you know to change the mindset we need to start from within we need to be with us so should look more professional we need sources so that we have the professional discipline right that we need to do our homework we need people to see that it's not just a vocation but it's actually a business so my recommendation is for creatives to actually step to trying to change your perception and the rest of the world before them and what goes into changing this perception is a disappearing off snap limit thing differently or how does is what i mean there's a saying that says if your room act like a room and. so if you're in business act like business people you know everything 1st impressions the way you act the way you relate to the language the business

there's a language to running a company the language of project management things like that so i think we should pick up you know i'm tick professional courses do things that have to do with business lend the trade learn the language and then we'll be able to change the perception so is it isn't that easy to start in the creative arts industry in your case a comic and as easily attach a business to it or does one come before the other there's just so the young folks coming in and stand all this of course i mean what business you are you of selling something or you're trading something so out to start with the creative pot have a product right to make sure you actually have the creativity and the product and then when you have a productive you have touched the business that i see them i'm getting some some tips there now which says it says we know a lot of the challenges are you talk about funding infrastructure what major support should governments do because i know you know many say. don't wait on the

government due to individual like you rightly said that the creative artists should invest more in themselves and look at. business part of it and move on but we're really does a government have to pay you know this of the government has a huge role to play for example they should make it easy for people who have proven themselves worthy in this sense easy access to funds so if a creative comes and they have a product right and they have a good business plan as long as it look he has the possibility of being profitable you don't need for it to be profitable right it just needs to have the possibility and if that creative or business can prove that then the government should make it easy for them to get funds even if it's a loan for them to pay back for them to be able to do this right and of course basic infrastructure if there's lights you know we don't have to spend so much money on power so i mean if they could do just those 2 and think of the ability to fund for people who prove themselves credit where the and also providing power the industry would change greatly so definite governments should come on board and

support to the creative arts industry i'm a superhero's i'll do my i pod ok now i'm going to give you the chance to talk to this 77 percent of africa's youth watching right now because i'm sure most of you are into the creative art industry my own sister it's a great artist i told you earlier what's the message for for those that really want to make a career or a life in this business i would throw some 7 percent that it's in their hands they should take full control of the destiny if i mean we the older people don't appreciate who we are what we do we need to prove ourselves and like everything else once you've proven yourself the world is your your playfield is just go for it go for it. what's about you and me would you need a superhero one image of you might. think about me. which i don't know if i'm supposed to be happy about it or not but deal with this galaxy madmen. i mean i don't know but anyway thanks

a lot jay thanks for having me lends a lot for me and i'm sure you guys have also lends a lot now if you want to see even more african superheroes the recently launched a new production of african roots that social media week in the goes check it out. the stories. with school. papers. conspiracy. but also tells for. complete. culture. afrikan groups.

i'm sure you're curious to know mall and fun fact that's actually a co-production webcomic republic so go subscribe to our you tube channel and discover more african history now for all the talk of france watching us right now did you know that almost 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans come from only 4 west african countries that's ivory coast my own country gonna lie geria i'm coming i've a coast i'm gonna alone cultivate more than half of the welds cocoa but most of the farmers work on that terrible conditions and get paid peanuts. the big chocolate companies are taking all the profits overseas so former banker manuel from ivory coast wants to change this fight producing. the list just chocolates you know

. cocoa beans emanuel bowers greatest passion the 35 year old intern you're produces chocolate in a small factory in abidjan he selects only the best cocoa beans and then crush them by hand as soon as the pieces are small enough a day out together with cocoa butter and tell them must become slick which. this requires a great deal of care the mixture must be stirred long enough otherwise the chocolate tastes peter. what frustrates me about chocolate is its complexity against a tory architecture a complexity of the our messed up must be added joke to a product with a beautiful alchemy view of a king below him. that accent in mind when produces chocolate in ivory coast is very unusual. his country is the world's largest some ply of cocoa beans

but after the harvest the beans are mostly shipped to europe and america where they are father processed and made into chocolate but this didn't stop the former banker from opening his own chocolate factory. evolve in 2015 at 1st his family didn't understand his decision. to rise up because then for me they all thought it was crazy that i really shouldn't do it so there was a lot of sadness and disappointment they really weren't happy that all squit in the bank to become a trickle but today i have done everything that i can to make them proud and i don't regret it. for the are just a sprout you know to get by. in total the production process takes between $2.00 and $3.00 days in order to set himself apart from the competition x.l. emmanuelle focuses on chocolate he employs around 10 people and works with

a cooperative of local cocoa farmers but his vision is bigger than just creating jobs in his own country and industry is based in the world but it is neglected it's on the margins if i can do something that can really impact these are women help them get out of poverty and i would be very satisfied. we have the right to get rich from chocolate. produces around $10000.00 chocolate bars per month usually it helps with the packaging she has been working and the team for several years. we always make sure that the pieces were placed before starting work if there's a break we can't work if there's no power we can't work so we always make sure there's power. in manu al sells his products in 10

african countries and also export them to europe it tablets cost. and 4 year old. production in his country. if we don't look after it will disappear by 15 many experts agreed that this is because of deforestation as well as a price paid to. the big retailers need to stop paying one euro. and truffles it is dishonorable they need to pay a little more. in the west must understand that they should buy good quality chocolate. x.l. emmanuelle giving up it's not optional he loves to surprise his customers. with new creations and let them have a taste in its latest experiment chocolate with trite insects.

i'm not to show outright chocolates with dried insects but i bet it's tasty and sustainable and we as consumers have the power to hold the big corporations so i count so good wake absalom and all but for me the best chocolate in the world will always be shall collate meeting go. now let's travel to the other side of the continents to talk about something totally different music stellata xabi is a wonder 1st female saxophonist making it big in the middle that we need that music industry wasn't easy at all but still refused to give up and has now made a name for herself take it away stella. my name is 2 last time than a month. likes of horns 2 2. but so much. to my life it's given me so much coffee beans and

it's become part of me it's become a part of. it all began with the story the 30 year old musician says that she did not find the saxophone but the instrument found her. first undertow $100.00 songs name one the friends fun tug of nature of a beautiful sight so fun so i asked what it was that of another friend of mine same sex a fun and that's when i got the. instrument but special instruments had to come by and have to be imported from outside the country when still a couldn't find any in rhonda us the uncle in the west to send him one month later she received a trumpet she wrote again in finally quite a saxophone but learning to play was another story there was a lot of techniques involved in bringing the right sound but i guess it's

a question of that really me and carried me in so that. sometimes even a simple thing like finding is paper becomes a major obstacle. this is one of my biggest challenges in the music show as big as this one you can't even find the right there it is one of the most essential accessories presents a phony steed. and it was if something gets broken the make car the main hall and it's very challenging to find spare parts in this town. besides this challenge taylor too shabby also face prejudices when she started to play her faced. this was a male dominated industry that i just flew into annoyingly no one paired with henri so it was tough. in the beginning still i felt people did not trust his skills because she's

a woman performances were cancelled or not paid correctly. have a role model to look up to someone to guide me and tell me what can so these are the steps this is what you're going to face no i just kind of dove into it but even when she struggled still didn't give up through her music she now wants to empower other women to work jobs they think are for men. i believe anything that a man can do we can do my dream is that women will be embraced in the workplace and be trusted with responsibilities and though you have no barriers obviously a woman was created to bring children into the world to harveys may reject responsibilities but my belief is that will create an environment for empower women to come for easily without having to struggle. stella who currently works in communications in the african institute for myth medical sciences wants to reach greater heights with the music she plans to record

a few songs in work full time in music 2. one of my dreams is to live in a music school this school with mainly target little kids develop rock to stick but a show where the still young. when she started playing the sax. new watch. because now we do have that we have walked we've seen. excited for. someone something new. and it. turned out to. discuss i ease.

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