you. want. to make. it so if i were a superhero this is what i would look like and my name would be e.-m. j. we clearly have something special for brad for you on the show and i'm not going to give away too much yet i mean my good genia and your welcome for the 77 percent. i was usual so they show it's packed with amazing stories all over the african continent and we have a special guest joining us in the studio it's after

a chat. and from nigeria to find out comic republic i've got 5 out of africa will be talking about that comic and creative out in the street in africa. will then have a taste of the initial shock me from even ivory coast. and last but not least we've one does says the female saxophone. 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 superheroes in town. and his team of young comic artists have created the only universe of african superheroes watch out gotham city mega city it's taking over. the gotham city of west africa is legal it's around 14000000

people live there are no superheroes to be found far away in america and they are white. ones to change this by making comics in africa he's fulfilling a childhood dream i think it was about 5 years ago my mom would buy me comic books and our troops every single one i completely ruined her comments yeah that's basically how i know. i've put a piece of paper on to make them help my pencil heard some of the 1st day with a print of the back cover my do we go to in school just these troops. are. prime and all of a nigerian superheroes are proud to live here and make a public studio a kind of alternative african model you know best in may under the watchful eye of g.-d. he has since moved to london where the whole thought he was from lagos will soon

achieve an international breakthrough. one of my major committed for bigger is to push the african continent and the continent you know to the world. and to do that you need every structure much infrastructure that we can find back home in nigeria . is. just right but what do people think of comic books buchwald superheroes. in the slums of makers at least that's what the kids think if only they had a policy just like the cocktails when she wants a gun says i was thug and i know you do damn police many the dad dying in my dick. cheney told me. if you were in lagos i would tell him to do so many tea because nigeria know we are. free. to me

they want i would do more than they were doing so that we know. you. even businesswoman isabella can identify with a superhero and. not only white people could be superheroes but africa really have you know you can't be. all powerful that she really. didn't matter and believe public is successful because it closest i got. i strongly believe that people close were in the if you forced him to put people. in the world of mainstream comics comic republic sees itself as an alternative we need to take control of the night and so the future of the comic the public to be a movie screen for viewing t.v. shows we need to be on mobile phones to be in people's homes and people's families you know we see our figure that makes 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 super powers to do that without comics. i gave. some cool stuff here is the man behind the african superhero you know martin welcome to the sense of. 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 heroes and icons that look like them people become local transpired. so. if someone says ok why can't we just stick to batman and superman is that a big deal there's always that thing about identification you know when when it's

familiar 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 or public what exactly goes on that comic or public is a group of individuals that have come together that basically to toe 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 it does a good summary of all that the rest of us are somebody a very busy day that show 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 toe we're 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 now for young people watching us now what are we saying then is it ok to just have the talent and do with it all we do encourage them to go to school to add more value 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 it is the school of you choose right so i would advice anybody you know about to get talent and then one of them make it a skill and that way you will always be on top. of you do you think that's that's something that just so you have moved to london right. why would you leave nigeria to go to london what really made you make that move the dream of chemical probably 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 supports force 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 i was going so far. i mean there's a fair structure. it's doing well yeah well yeah we do talk in our problems that there are many other challenges facing the creative industry for instance in kenya inquiry from cameroon makes more money renting out is a good grandstand to the movies he makes why is that. making movies where we don't make any money out of big will have in this we have no support we have no funding i don't know if it is crazy if you think you are stupid especially when you are that educated when you don't physically able mentally able to do something else and then when the passion is what drives you when that enthusiasm is what drives you it becomes very difficult for some form for

a filmmaker income alone to want to do something else because you feel like if you make it is where 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 bankability process for africa we need to prove they can be a product out there that 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 were. going fast you know what one challenge that i have is it seems that across africa when when you tell someone hey i draw

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 willian where we need to be with our selves to look more professional we need to issue 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 boy it's actually a business so my recommendation is for creatives to actually stats are trying to change your perception and the rest of the war before them and what goes into changing this perception is a just a thing of 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

that i am 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. so is it is it 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's business you're selling something or you're trading something so out is that 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 product then you attach 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 normally say don't wait on the government you the 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 the 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 front so if a creative comes and they have a productive 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 justice to and think of an ability to fund for people who prove themselves credit where the and also providing power industry would change greatly so deaf then the government should come on board and support to the creative arts industry i'm a superhero's i'll do my part 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 system is 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 tell some 7 percent that it's in their hands they should take full control of their destiny if i mean we know that 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 you need a superhero what name did you have in mind. but whatever it is i'm supposed to be happy about it or not but we do in this galaxy matt. i mean i don't know but anyway thanks a lot jay thanks for having me lend 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 social media week in lagos check it out. car. stories. with school free. peoples. used to conspiracy. but also tells school. in. rishon culture.

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 for african history now for all the fans 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 world's cocoa but most of the farmers work under terrible conditions and get paid peanuts. the big companies are taking all the profits overseas so former banker manuel from ivory coast wants to change this fight producing. just truckloads. cocoa beans in mind when the power is greatest passion the 35 year old intercommunal produces chocolate in a small factory in abidjan he selects only the best cocoa beans then crush them by

hand as soon as the piece is small enough of the out ground together with cocoa butter and till the 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 hour messed up must be added to obtain a product with a beautiful alchemy beloki. that accent in mind when produces chocolate in ivory coast is very unusual in. his country is the world's largest supplier 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 the

students talk to the former banker from opening his own chocolate factory. in 2015 at 1st his family didn't understand his decision. to size up the quickest thing for me because 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 i was quitting 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 odd just a sprout you know goodbye. it was. 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. industry is based in the world but it's neglected it's

on the margins if i can do something that can really impact these african 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 in 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. x.l. in my new al sells his products in 10 african countries and also export them to europe the tablets cost. and 4 year old.

production in his country. if we don't look after it disappeared by $250.00 many experts agreed that this is because of deforestation as well as the 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. but for x.l. emmanuelle giving up it's not optional to surprise his customers. with new creations and let him have a taste he's latest experiment chocolate with dried insects. i'm not to show outright chocolate it's weird 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 away absalom animal that for me the best chocolate in the weald will always be shall collate meeting. now let's travel to the other side of the continents to talk about something totally different. music stellata xabi everyone this 1st female saxophonist making it big in the middle dominated music industry wasn't easy at all but still refused to give up and now need a name for herself take it away stella. my name is tele time them among those husks females like so for instance. 2 2 but so much. to my life it's given me so much coffee beans and it's become part of me and 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 122-0100 songs playing one a friend one ton of mean trove of beautiful saxophone so i asked what it was that of another friend of mine see before saxophone and that's when i got the desire to really nice instrument but special instruments are hard to come by and have to be imported from outside the country when still of couldn't find any in rhonda us the uncle in the worst to send him one month later she received a trumpet she wrote again and 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 that i had within me and kerry did mention 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 a read where it is one of the most essential accessories a phony steven gets was if something gets broken make who are the main. it's very challenging to find spare parts in this town. besides this challenge teller too shabby also face prejudices when she started to play her faced. this was a male dominated industry but i just flew into an annoyingly no one paragraph for it 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 didn't have a role model to look up to someone to get me into me working 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 or have no barriers obviously a woman was created to bring children into the world to have his marriage occur responsibilities but my belief is that will create an environment for empower women to come through easily without having to struggle. stella who currently works in communications at the african institute for mythmaker finances 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 open

a music school and this school will mainly target little kids to develop rock to stick with a show where the still young. when she started playing the sax and knew what she was gooey because in our family we didn't have that. we have worked with we have seen how she has proved list with talent and we are so happy and excited for the beauty of god toughing someone from something new is that it to inspire me and it to help others to. turn out to shop in disguise he's been leaving. home. man. oh i get goosebumps i read time i hear this saxophone but hey guys. hope you

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