she called. for over a mention home the 4th time from. the family dragging. on. it so if i were a superhero this is what i would look like and my name would be. we clearly have something special for brad for you on the show but i'm not going to give away too much yet i mean my good genia and your welcome to the 77 percent. usual so they show it's packed with amazing stories all over the african continent and we have the special guest joining us in the studio it's after

a chat. from nigeria to find out of comic republic that got 5 out of african superheroes we'll be talking about that comic uncreative up industry in africa. and how the taste of the mistrust felt meets me tonight because. last but not least we. 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 our own universe of african superheroes watch out gotham city lega city is taking over. from city of west africa. around 14000000 people

live here no superheroes to be found they lived far away in america and be out quite. wants to change this by making comics enough he's fulfilling a childhood dream i think it was about 5 years ago my mum would buy me comic books and i would freeze every single one i completely ruined the cupboards yeah that's basically how i know. i've put a piece of paper on to make them help my pencil the know 1st day with a print of the back cover i do the coach went to school just b.c. troops. are. guardian prime and all of the nigerian superheroes are proud to live here and the public the public's to get a kind of alternative africa model you know best in many ways under the watchful eye of the day he has since moved to london with a hope to supply us from lagos will soon achieve an international good to see.

one of my major become a couple big leaps to push the african continent and the continent you know to the world. and to do that you need infrastructure much of a jerk food that we can find back home in nigeria you know london is. going to lose its right to leave but what do people think of comic books back home. in the slums of lagos at least what a case of think if only he had owned superpowers just like the carcass when chief wants a gun says i was thought damn fine and he didn't do a full length of the dad dying in my dick. cheney house me. if you were in lagos i would tell him to do so many tea because nigeria know we are soft. during. the war i would do more than they

would. so that we know what you eat. even businesswoman isabella can identify with a superheroine up on the may. i not tell you why people could be superheroes but africa we have how would you know you can't be. all powerful she really. didn't matter and believe public is successful because it closest i got. i strongly believe that people who approach women feel forced to put the focus. you know weld off mainstream comics comic republic sees itself as an alternative we need to take control of the night and so the future is becoming the public to be a movie screen for good t.v. shows we need to be on mobile phones to be in people's homes and people's homes eat you know we see our figure that makes you see our car does 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 about comics. i gave. about some cool stuff here is the man behind the african superhero you know martin welcome to the sense of you know ok so you believe that nigeria and indeed africa should have its own supply he was why is that so important it's necessary for any people and the tribe or any race to have an icons that looks like them people become look up transpired . 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 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 tell us about comic or public what exactly goes on that comic republic is a group of individuals that have come together that basically to tell the africans to react to push the african narrative in the right light so that the world can see our awesome the continent it's not just the negative stuff but the positive stuff as it was a good summary of all that there are so i'm certainly 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 story of a whole generation of people to convert we have loads to toe we're always creating and it's so much for 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 add more value there's something i always say that surely somebody would go and build eventually trump anybody would just talent so i mean when i started we didn't have a lot of places to look for but there's the internet these days there's something else it is the school of you to write so i would advise anybody you know about to get talent and then only then make it in scale and that way you will always be on top i see sort of you tube i think that's the subset just so you have moved to london right. 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 supports 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 better to be able to take me for big to where it's supposed to be which is a global brand and hours ago so far. i mean there's a for structure. it's doing well yeah well yeah we do talk and our problem is that there are many other challenges facing the creative industry for instance in kenya in kwai 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 be true happiness we have no support you have north london i don't see fish crazy if you think you are stupid specially when you are doubt. when you physically 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 folks for

a filmmaker incumbent to want to do something else because you feel like if you make it this way 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 some viable go around these challenges ok so 1st things 1st i think if you provide what investors need you need to as a creative use distilled bankability process for africa we need to prove they can be a product south that are creative come out you know it be from the creative space and go into you know the commercial space and provide via you for investors right we need to build the business and when it's a business who fund investors and things will. one fast you know what one challenge that i have is it seems that across africa when when you tell someone hey i draw i'm

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 where we need to be with us so 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 disappearing off snap limit thing differently or how it is as well i mean there's a saying that sees eve 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're 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 product that 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 funds so if a creative comes and they have a product right and they have a good business plan as long as it looked it has the possibility of being profitable you don't need for it to be profitable 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 when you're on power so i mean if they could do justice to and think availability to funds for people who prove themselves credit where the and also providing power the industry would change greatly so definitely governments should come on board. and supports 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 the 77 percent of africa's you'd watch and right now cause i'm sure most of you

into the great invited to see 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 do that all the 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 so what's about you and me would you you've you made me a superhero what name did you have you might. think about me. but which others i'm supposed to be happy about or not but deal with this galaxy madness. i mean i don't know but anyway thanks a lot judy 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 v.w.

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a co-production webcomic republic so go subscribe to our you tube channel and discover for african history now for all the 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 liberia i'm coming to ivory coast and ghana alone cultivate a lot on the hof of the world's cocoa but most of the farmers work under terrible conditions and get paid peanuts for your hard labor. the big chocolate companies are taking all the profits overseas so former banker i mean manuel from ivory coast wants to change this fight producing. the list just chocolates in our. cocoa beans in mind when power is greatest passion the 35 year old into pin your produces chocolate in a small factory in abidjan he selects only the best cocoa beans then crushes them

by hand as soon as the pieces are small enough that they are granted together with cocoa butter and kill the must become slick which. this requires a great deal of care the mixture must be stirred long enough otherwise the chocolate tastes bitter. what frustrates me about chocolate is its complexity the goose the story architecture the complexity of the hour a messed up must be added job to a product with a beautiful alchemy of a king below him. that in mind when produces chocolate in ivory coast is very unusual. 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 this didn't stop the film banker

from opening his own chocolate factory. in 2015 at 1st his family didn't understand his decision to devise a pickle because then funny 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 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. emanuel now 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 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 in the team for several years. we always make sure that the pieces well 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. emmanuelle sells his products in 10 african countries and also export them to europe at 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. x.l. emmanuelle giving up it's not optional to surprise his customers. with new creations and let them have a taste he slanted experiment chocolate with dried insects. i'm not to show outright chocolate aids where 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 a way absolute model 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 if one is 1st female saxophonist making it big in the middle of the music industry wasn't easy at all but still refused to give up. me that name for herself take it away stella. i mean you still less time than a month has has female sex of horns 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 turn to truro 100 songs playing one of friends for a ton of new trove of beautiful sights of one 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 had to come by and have to be imported from outside the country when still of couldn't find any in randa us the uncle in the worst to send him one month later she received a trumpet she wrote again and finally got his 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 carried me in so that kept me going sometimes even a simple thing like finding is paper becomes a major obstacle. this is one of my biggest challenges

family in the music shop as big as this one you can't even find or read every day is one of the most essential accessories for us like a phoney stephen gets was if something gets broken the make car the main. 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 have faced. this was a male dominated industry that i just flew into annoyingly no one paragraph henri so it was tough. in the beginning to tell a felt people do 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 is 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 i didn't give up through her music she now wants to empower other women to work jobs the pink are for men. i believe anything that a man can do we can do my dream is that the women will be embraced in the workplace and i'll be trusted with responsibilities and they have no barriers obviously a woman was created to bring children into the world to have these may reject 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. to develop right to stick with

a show where the still young. when she started really. knew what she was because in our family we didn't have that. we have worked with we have seen how she has proved list to meet the talent and we are so happy and excited for the good job or topping someone from something new is that it to inspire me and it can help others to. turn out to shopping despite these than leaving. home. oh i get goosebumps i would time i hear this. but hey guys. hope you

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