you can find more information online. hello to you wherever you are watching from a welcome to the 77 percent a show for africa's youth i could julia and it's great to have you on board. so what's coming up on the show. the world of online fraud one of west africa is. a crime. and how do you feel about. travel to kenya to discuss the sensitive topic. on the nigeria we meet

a painter who uses an ancient writing system to create a rising up. now have you ever wondered where all those emails claiming that you've won a $1000000.00 actually come from well that's happening a lot in gaza one of west africa's hotspots where cyber crime and internet fraud young people tried to make a living by scamming people online we met some of the fronts this. well here as night falls on the streets of a crowd the work day is just beginning for internet's comus like coffee that's not his real name he doesn't want to be identified which is understandable as a notorious credit card foster who would face several yes imprisonment if he got caught he sucked large right now he tells us a bit about his occupation even harvey cooperate with russians.

because if they are so. true such. coffeepot. chat rooms are websites for about 5 years dollars each. but it's a gamble because he never knows how much credit is left on the cards. it's really the sample this. is one of the they do. not. assume he has a card he uses it to shop online for drawing the money from an a.t.m. is too risky instead he gets collaborators in the u.s. and europe to buy laptops and send them to canada where in. this method

escort customer service everyone gets a share of the profits. up to $1000.00 euros a month doing this. in north it's time to stop. its. so there are those of all of these on my list. to do that within. seconds slang for cyber crime is an increasingly common practice not just in ghana but also in nigeria and many other west african countries. youth activist abdul razak as well aware of the problems facing the young people. you know in his neighborhood many teenagers and young adults involved in cyber crime out of necessity know there are no hard core criminals decide just. young vulnerable and disadvantaged men who will need to who want i miss

i have a need to succeed in life not necessarily succeeding in building houses buying cars but to make ends meet. one of the most popular scams is called reminds young men pretend to be women on dating sites to trick lonely hearts into sending them money and gifts most of the victims are white men from europe and america a good romance comma can make up to $400.00 euros a month. come a weapon who also wants to remain anonymous explains why many dani and have no sympathy for these naive men. their youth here think their white man has taken a lot of things our way from the game they are using this means. to. attack their pride from mine for living in the ass for 5 days so oh and this

thing is because of their white man i fitted them for that's why they are also doing. these attitudes give the scum less peace of mind about your crimes the upload poof. images of attractive women and ask the assistants or girlfriends to record voice messages this worked well for a few years. to now but there would be victims are now more tech savvy and quickly wise up to possible scams like where who's lost a victim sean. i trusted that you were solid you broke all that night far as i'm concerned you lied to me i guess you really were just that black guy on there just trying to take me

for everything you can get in for. but it's gotten harder for prosecutors as well in 2014 they got a police service launched the cyber crime unit and trained about $1000.00 cyber crime investigators to try and combat discomfits but up to russia believes the police aren't tackling the root causes of the problem all i call on our leadership is that this is channel most of the airport in building the capacity of the youth get in there very concrete you fully see i think what we have that all these issues of crime using gaijin crimes and i'm the. social misfits i think you to be here of the past for now identity fraud and cyber crime remain big business in qana and while authorities keep trying to catch the frostiness tricks. every day.

now the frost this so-called cycle our boys cycle is a house of 10 which means to take back something that was taken from you and as you just head once a car boy justified his scam games westernesse by claiming that they have exploited africa for too long but hey there is no justification for committing a crime now how much is the west and china really exploiting africa at the moment some argue that a new wave of colonialism is sweeping the continent the phenomenon called new colonialism describes the indirect influence of foreign this. critics see foreign direct investment in aid from the west and china africa of its economic independence under the guise of development international corporations are being allowed to lease big trucks of land or palm oil monocultures. to the detriment of local farmers in senegal local fishermen are being left with very little fish

international trawlers exploit the sea and chinese construction companies in an ever increasing role in many african countries the chinese build really line in kenya for example has left behind the mountain of debt. but how bad is it peons and chinese really to blame for all of these problems or should we instead be holding our own leaders to account our very own either command met with the young residents in the kenyan capital nairobi to find out what they think boy oh boy was that a heated discussion. this event is 7 percent is in nairobi the capital of kenya and it is in this city that nearly 57 years ago the kenyan flag went up we were declared independent but how independent is kenya and indeed the rest of africa is the question that we're asking today on our subject neocolonialism why is it still

a thing in africa and who is to blame but before we go too far let's come to who is a political analyst and a writer here in kenya how would you describe new colonialism what does it mean to you. i think that coming from a give us the best of mission for neocolonialism which is late stage imperialism where you have his interests influence and political decision making of your nominee decision making ok so let me come to the farmer right here mr michael keeping him because your family as you mentioned is over 100 years old suddenly older than the nation of kenya do you feel like you're beholden to the person who began this. absolutely not you do and i believe we need to call them minds on our hearts as it is 6 years plus after independence we really shouldn't be complaining too much about. let me come back to i want to challenge you basically based on what michael has said that it's been about 5 to 6 years we should be talking about

neocon and right now look at me and fairview farm we're doing it on our own we're talking about colonization we're talking about imperialism we're not talking about individual experiences we're talking about a systemic issue yes you're able to grow your coffee and run your coffee chores but is the price for example that you're that you're selling your coffee at reflective of the labor that has gone into producing that coffee or is it reflective of political priorities that have been set elsewhere exploitation of power disparities where the profits of certain regions of certain parts of the world is the very definition of new colonialism ok i'd like to come to because i just want to you know piggyback on what nigel a saying that it is a system and it is exploitative but where our politicians the people who should be of those international tables making better deals for us saying this doesn't work for us anymore can a struggles with the kinds of political leadership that is dysfunctional that is explosive that it's violent that's discriminator there's also this culture that stems from colonial space of leadership that excludes people from their leaders

which is putting the people into this vicious cycle of constantly saying we need better we need better but nothing ever changes because the bubble of and the shield of neo colonialism is so thick so we're saying that oh my goodness that the that neo colonialism was taken you see ping into basically every single fact of our lives politically economically even how we think yeah socially and i'm just wondering from tony in what ways does new colonialism still have an impact in the way we are governed i mentioned the french very briefly the french have never mentally left africa ever you can see what goes on in the congo. he's like the highest glory of african evolution is to become a frenchman or a mademoiselle the french have never lost that mentality but one might argue that kenyans have not lost that mentality we are after all having this conversation in english no but can is a very different country we may be confused there but i want you to addressed

immediately our political leadership all new colonialism relies on somebody having the lead in their pocket or in that case is your gripe then with your own government all with a colonial government that created structures in which we are governed as we are that is very lazy the only strain to blame the british in 2020 year old a strange all the time you keep complaining about white people by which you mean european people and the truth is these great men 20202020 february 20. then your colon is that china all right i'd like to get some more views on this site the problem came with a philosophical foundations of this country like if we're talking about export we didn't center kenyans or the people who live in this land we're in so what we're experiencing now is a result of what happened so the worst is still to blame but we reproduce what we did but is it fair let me ask schaffer here is it fair to sort of lump the whole

western world into you know their white savior as they're trying to come and save us we don't need their help is there room for collaboration or is it just going to be this bipolar dialogue. well i think i think room for collaboration that existed or that has assumed that it didn't seem to exist has existed in their white terms so even as we collaborate we are collaborating within their own structures within their own arguments within their own engagement within their own requirements vary white people have always wanted to enforce and to carry forward their whiteness and their supremest see we should be able to enforce and carry forward our blackness our black supremacy but it's never going to happen because we don't have the leadership that is capable to really manage in our own governance and in gateman out of the 3 in that is mostly a colonial but is it necessary to lose out this way to sentiment to this again we are playing here and sometimes i get tired of it or this is going to take way to grants that i want something specific to us your government never have won

a lot of these scholarships and so on don't lose weight but you tell your own story in your own way i feel like what's this weighty sentiment and never be sad about being colonized by the british of all the colonizers schools history and you know we had this please please please contextualize that i will never be sad because that's the way real politic of the way of history has been colonized with the belgians didn't give a damn but i'm not going to go and keep painting about. yes yes yes yes and i'd like to give i'd like to give let me come to schieffer because she's so exhausted her hands are on her head i'm about to give up because the thing is this rate so the context is when we when i hear people talk about they don't have a problem with having the question how deep are you in this neocolonial struggle that you've actually embraced your abuser and made them feel made her feel that she

was right for doing what they did to you tony is saying that the facts can't be changed that the world order at the time was as it was the world order was white people stealing from black africans that was the word order i think sometimes when we speak very carelessly and very casually about very fundamental things that have was in the mess that we are and i really don't appreciate it ok tony do you agree with the charge that he was so deeply new york colonized yourself that you don't see why your utterances could have been that is absolute bollocks. that is. because we educated yet it's like those people and keep talking about how their father was an alcoholic or their mother never loved them enough and be like that you must lose their victim mentality a boat. which we have in this country we started with a very critical question neocolonialism why is it still in africa well the answer is in our history and who's to blame for it apparently we are thank you for

watching. very intense debate thank you to everyone who joined us in that debate about some of you also shared your thoughts with us on facebook now let's go to barry joshua from nigeria you write i think we should 1st blame our presidents and politicians when they make promises and then fail to fulfill those promises ok now from can. and says if powerful countries focus more engineering trade fair competition and love we will all enjoy the resources abundant ok now this world could definitely do with a lot more laughs many thanks for your comments and if you want to watch the longer version of that debate piece check out our you tube channel.

now let's go way back to a time before the festival pm with a foot into africa have you ever heard of incivility well it's a system of symbols used in southeast in nigeria long before the latin alphabet sadly instability has gone almost extinct but a young artist is reviving these instant symbols given it's a new twist in his paintings. every controversial figure in nigeria's history major general chukwuemeka the man that led the biafran war 50 years ago these portrait is a reminder of a painful past that many people may not want to remember. but will be nigh is the artist behind the painting has chosen to tell this story in a unique way. by making use of an ancient writing system he did in the piece a subtle messages of hope peace and unity if you look at the face you see

signs symbols they have been able to tweet east and get florida you know to create this there from official when you look at it you know. these signs and symbols and ancient form of communication that was used by southeastern a.j. long before the colonization of africa they're called to. open a season see video evidence for the fact that africans have been writing before the arrival of a few europeans he is part of a movement that is aimed at preserving the ancient african symbols. it's a movement that gained more attention after the c.p.d. writings were featured in the $28000.00 movie panther. and c.b.d. is one of the official written languages in the fictional country who are kind. african art experts say the movie pays homage to the almost extinct language on the bottom to be ignorant of history is to be ignorant of life because it is who we are

it is our culture it is a great heritage we need to protect its with our lives we need to prove preserve it with everything we have got. be no ses always in copper in c.b.d. right into his twigs the symbols are stuck with him since he discovered them a number of years ago. screenshots from the internet you know and i so the thing embraced me too because i came to understand a way of being able to you know get through and give a video i know give interpretations and make things get related and connect with themself in a particular piece so i felt i going to see really and to be caught in to me to. be nice personal mission is to educate people about the c.b.d.

writing system and to inspire the world to embrace. now that it's beautiful and we should not forget our culture and history are talking about history 25 years ago rwanda and its capital kigali was brought to its knees by the genocide but since then the gallery has rapidly developed into a truly modern city so day the city is vibrant and boasts a dynamic startup scene. young entrepreneurs are found in india and fashion companies often with great success like. well founded shoe company they took us on the floor through the whole city and joy. i we all is old and given and we're happy as a thank you are not. so many.

is old and kevin were both born in kigali which is today home to more than 1300000 people and a rapidly growing. landlocked rwanda is making great strides and its capital hopes to one day become the singapore of africa. as you might have guessed at the 2 young women have a serious passion for shoes the designers started their business in 2013 and quickly became known for their unique and quintessentially african style. now we know as far as in the city that very proud of it was said at the store as 320 something. these big all these 7 months of. their stylish shoes or even sold online so you can buy them anywhere around the world they currently employ 50 people just outside of kigali as well as numerous

into. making an impact is key for the entrepreneur as with many other african countries thousands move to the city dreaming of a better job and a better life but the challenges that come with big many still don't have access to electricity and tap water. and his old take us to a local market where they like to buy fruit. to god leaves my beautiful cities growing and changing. in a very. period of time as much as we're growing up in a very happy about he would like to play a part in making sure that nobody is left out essentially. to bring us to mention the create environment and so people who are in need. as many opportunities as some of us have had. good golly isn't just known for its perfectly manicured

gardens and pristine streets but also being a very safe city. government continues to push for a quick transformation into the modern age but critics say the development has been achieved at the expense of individual rights like freedom of expression the country has come a long way since the horrific genocide 25 years ago the genocide memorial here is to remind people never again their genocide against the tutsi in 1904 was a horrific story but it's part of who we are. as a young generation were very much to move forward to always remember but move for it and do things together in order to reach out to our full potential the energy in this city is palpable new shops and restaurants pop up every other month and his old love to take a break at one of these many cafes where you can treat yourself to a tasty

a rabbit coffee coffee for me. to get started i get so much energy you have to think. well one thing's for sure these 2 didn't miss a beat on our tour through kigali weekends at the convention center which today is the city's most prominent small and the perfect spot for a selfie county's not only a super bowl susan there is so much you want to come and it. might have been as a. young. so it's official i have added rewound out to my travel list but hey guys that's it for the show but please connect with us right as an email at 77 i did that we dot com if you have any feedback or even story ideas we are always happy to hear from you now let's wrap up this show when i track from nigerian single watch this with

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