other sports to follow suit the n.b.a. agreed to a number of social justice initiatives including turning basketball arenas into polling station for the 2020 alexion this coming november. and there's the latest on d.w. news this hour arts and culture is next with a look at how computer games are evolving in the face of a pandemic omarion extreme thanks for the company. i'm secure that volume or that's hard and in the end this for me you are not allowed to stay here any more we will send you back. are you familiar with this. with the smugglers with clients of the what's your story ready ready.

i'm with numbers of women especially of victims of violence and. take part and send us your story you are trying all with understand this new culture. you are not the visitor not the guests you want to become citizens. in for migrants your platform is reliable information. greetings from berlin and a warm welcome to arts and culture so many of our normal activities were impossible during the weeks of corona lockdown but computer games were a welcome distraction day or night and we'll look at how computer games are evolving in the new pandemic reality and also in the pipeline. the

3rd of 3 good to medal laureates for 2020 south african writer and journalist. is connecting the african continent through literature. and british photographer topics i.e.d. captures the extravagant pomp and flair of the perp's of culture even. in republic of congo. all the pandemic has spelled profit for the gaming industry because during all of those hours days and weeks the people spent cooped up in their own 4 walls during lockdown they certainly played a lot of computer games normally the world's largest computer games trade fair games com would have welcomed the industry to cologne on thursday but the event has gone digital this year and it's clear that lessons learned in lockdown are shaping the game's world to come. developing games outside the mainstream with original

ideas that's the formula for developers at this small hamburg studio. here they've put players in an ethically difficult place they become part of the surveillance machine and spy on others. little by little we start to question things saying is that really necessary don't you think you maybe went too far with them if you write that we try not to point a finger it should really come from the players themselves if you have some. this year games commas taking place not in cologne's message hollow but online developers have built an online platform with booths you can visit with avatars the games industry is changing with more women playing and more unusual games suddenly some of them have added relevance. in the can of fish we don't have to get so many smaller games now deal with isolation with loneliness. i believe games are also a medium in which you can process things artistically and many individual

developers work with that. at the vanguard of this trend see of solitude a girl fights her feelings of hopelessness anger and loneliness they appear in the shape of monsters oh. ok message game developer camellia gephardt came up with the idea which is influenced by her own experiences . it's a long way from shoot ups and car racing. i sometimes wonder if changes in the games industry are due to women increasingly moving to the forefront it's worth mentioning we've brought our topics and our emotionality to the studios . and to greater diversity as in the game tell me why we're twins rediscover their own past and one of them is transgender. or the action game held blade with the main character battle schizophrenia.

and the blockbuster the last of us part 2 features a love story between 2 women it's nice narratives are examples of a growing trend. but there are still those there always will be for whom the games are just a bit of fun you can hang out with friends but there's a growing courage to tell more complex stories that. the hamburg studio has just hired game developers to work on a new game this too will be a journey into the world of emotions. was part of our coverage of the good to metal 2020 our 3rd and final laureate is south african writer and journalists who cares about weiner congratulations go out to a woman whose work has had an incredible impact on her home continent and beyond as she drives home the multiplicity of african identity.

one of the pins that. gets my goat. when i get referred to is black african right that i'm like how. why must i have this little what you call it was what i did i want to be a good writer. is a woman unafraid to speak our mind born in zambia and now based in kenya the south african novelist children's book writer journalist and publisher also founded and curated a pan african online literature festival in response to the code 19 knockdown she's prolific and multi-talented and her energy seems to be inexhaustible how to she juggle her many interests with very little sleep. i think if you love something you always make time for it

a writing almost always has a political subtext her debut novel the madams was published in 2006 it's the story of 3 well off middle class women in post apartheid south africa torn between career and family traditional and modern female roles in today's world i am essentially pro. who very pro are for penn i'm very pro women and i think this generally comes out in my books what those 3 all have in common is about identity. i'm writing for readers but more importantly i'm writing for people will say oh reading is boring and i'll fair i've got a book where you finish once i finish what i paid and tell me if that's boring. to frank front book from 2019 van out to part in a trial hosted by the gutter institute a feminist a citizen of the world she's

a regular gas to do international literary events. i think i'm an itinerant by nature in a way i have always been an outsider looking in if you were but i also give a insider's perspective. suki's well vanna is the 1st african woman to win the gutter medal making her a role model for aspiring writers. when you're an artist you want to go beyond just speaking to one people it means a lot where it can resonate with with somebody in berlin or with somebody in munich with somebody in brazil as a publisher amplifying african voices is one of our tongue priorities but maybe we need more voices that are more visible a lot of african countries are only like quick to 60 years from colonialism we're still growing we are story.

keyword colonialism and now to a fashion subculture that originated as a response to colonial powers in bouts of ill in republic of congo and in kinshasa india are c. less sap a play on the french slang seppi which means dressed up so young men adopt the elegant dandy style of their colonisers and make it their own a culture stands in stark contrast to the crushing poverty of the area where the sun sport their elaborate duds in defiance of their circumstances and british photographer takes i.e.d. captures that is rather viva in a brand new book. show time on what may be africa's most unusual catwalk. but these people are professional models they're congolese dandies men and women for whom the

perfect outfit yes everything. they live in slum communities their lives suddenly you see somebody who's dressed like a $1000000.00 you know there were a. lot of the birds were kids or jacket or because of the time. $500000.00 crocodile shoes high fashion in the poor neighborhoods of kinshasa our brows of you disappear are celebrated for their highly developed sense of style and the way they move after their day jobs as taxi drivers or laborers they change into their gladrags the more expensive the better. supper is an acronym for societe does it to pass on illegal or the society of taste makers and i can people. now where. it's a unique subculture in the congo or border one of the best ways to be

a rock star is to look like a rock star like rock star walk like a rock star and behave like a rock star but in a very very kind and gentle way terek sadi is not the 1st to be fascinated by the subculture here but no one has delved as deeply into it as the award winning british photographer he visited the congo repeatedly for more than 3 years. self-assertion through style the supreme movement all rose in the 1920 s. in response to colonialism young congolese wanted to dress better than the french or belgian colonial rulers as a way of maintaining their dignity in the face of oppression. to this day the stop defy their poor living conditions by keeping up appearances. sadie was allowed a glimpse into the sappers closets they often say for years to buy a designer suit the average wage in congo is around $900.00 a year plus apparel combined designer clothes by global labels with their own

creations. not to pick them up as objects and put them on a sofa or on a park bench or in a noisy place in town are actually wanted to understand. where they live how they live how they save money for. close how the community reacts so all my work was done. literally within 500 meters of the homes tax saudis new book due out next month shows that some are more than just close sources they distinguished themselves with a talent for improvisation. and despite their difficult living conditions they are the ones in charge of their faith and for that they are beloved in their community . how i do it. which clothes are choose how creative i become how much of my own personality

overtakes those clothes how i walk in the street the dignity i have the grease and elegance of the artistry of combining things that you'd never imagine combining that go together and putting it all together with the philosophy of peace and harmony. tranquility now that is for me were suburbs of. dandyism as a form of peaceful protest and colonial resistance in the congo they like to say white people invented this clothes we made it into art. and finally extraordinary times require extraordinary measures british street artist banksy has financed a ship to rescue refugees attempting to reach europe from north africa via the mediterranean sea on the vessel is named. after a french feminist an artist it's painted bright pink and sports but it's his

trademark balloon girl artwork this time rather in a life vest and holding a heart shaped life well it's not the 1st time that banksy who's known for his socially critical works has made a stand in the refugee debate. and there's a hopeful note to end on and don't forget to visit our web site for more from arts and culture and until we all meet again all the best from us in berlin and do stay safe. and. momentous anniversary. 75 years ago world war 2 came to an end. in berlin its legacy is still visible i would like to learn more about the end of the war here in berlin and also more about the people of. the last days of the war and a new beginning join me in the search for traces here in the capital. in

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