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in south africa protesting against the government's handling of the industry many have been jobless for months during the cold 19 and donate and see the need to help them out. and you're welcome to the program it's time for students to return to school in nigeria now that should normally be good news right because children have been away for months due to the colon of virus and demick but it's a bit more complicated but with insufficient funding for public schools. how well the schools to fulfill the newco but 19 prevention guidelines are correspondents funny reports from labor. normally martins would be sitting in class right now studying math but nothing is normal for the 13 year old or for his siblings since

march this is reality. more and more and. the rest of. us with every passing month he lacks food the behind the educational curriculum classes exist but just like most of his peers in public schools martinez can not participate i need a lot of boards i don't have because my parents or hundreds of our forwards his mom is the main breadwinner in the family she wants her children to have access to education but the prospect of schools reopening puts her on edge. and i set out by saying that 5 year. old that's because i do everything she wants to monitor the situation for a week after schools reopen before she will allow her children to go back to school

. we were approved for a rare visit to film inside this public school government funded institutions are aware of parents' worries soon this classroom will be full of life again full of students ready to learn but there's concern over whether the chronically underfunded public school system is also ready ready to prevent an outbreak of the virus. that could destroy all the progress that's been made here because the basics are in place water best since senate but schools need more rooms to add here to social distancing rules 60 students in one classroom has been the norm here if you had more classrooms then there would not be any need for them. to have attendance we do it once more than 20 students in a class that means we need to split the class into 3 students who would be

requested to take turns receiving face to face teaching others who stay at home with the promise of classes the numbers that we receive in our schools are quite enormous. in the funding to accommodate everybody stretching the funding for public schools is nothing new getting an education doing the pandemic will be even harder let alone keeping students safe. so what happens to our. entertainment industry has been shut down. that's been the case across the continent including in south africa. protesting against the government's lockdown it's been locking down their business after several months of nowhere. it. has been a locked down year in south africa for 6 months now but gradually of the economy has been reopened in the past weeks and months but not all industries many. people

are still suffering this is why artists came here to protest they say they haven't been able to perform for half a year not able to make an income and they want the government to consider them as well. i mean is that mean i'm an artist on the floor and it has been the music. performance in those dreams attainment lots of small businesses attached to all those small businesses out there not just. you know. people sound levels that have been affected. they just pulled the plug i've been just surviving via the grace of my god you know and my creator and my family people that have helped and supported me they can because in this she was the 1st to be afflicted with was the 1st to be locked down shut down completely businesses have

gone out of out of business. i many people also complaining that the government has largely been ignoring the arts and entertaining industry for many years and even during the times of the pandemic some odyssey are complaining that they had no access to a covered 1000 emergency relief funds among the people protesting the musicians seeing people playing in theaters most of the arts menus in capetown remain closed to open but limited capacity at the moment with a maximum of 50 people at one venue people here saying this is not enough to survive to make a living and they're demanding for them to be allowed to operate at 70 percent capacity. west african leaders keeping up the pressure on mali and i go as meeting in a car so the mali and village regions. 18 months transitional period but

insisted that both the president and the vice president must be civilians they also said that agenda must drop in the sea to the transitional government the west african group imposed economic sanctions on mali after the military coup that ousted president. 18th of august. they got in president to there's that sale he had this to say about the immediate timetable the minute the government is put in place the sanctions of course this puts him in this morning will be lifted he is real concerned about the improv to the sanctions on the people of money. and the. default because this is the. result since a good run jonathan will be going to bomb a coup in a week's time and hopefully between now and then these arrangements when they're

going put into place so that he can report. and then go from that. stay in mali from our president. has died he was $83.00 the general seized power in the ninety's to see a military coup and remains that countries of the rita and wilma for $23.00 yes but he also and praise for his diplomacy in various african crisis in 1991 he was toppled by a coup on sentenced to death after being pardoned he had tamed the status of an elder statesman in the late yes almost all of his successors including the tyrants with salt is advice. now if you love music with a pap clothes like i do then you would love the gemini dancing as a rexx became known in germany because of mainly concepts in youth detention center just now if you want to use news to give

a voice to the voiceless on the help make the weald a better place. outside hamburg's university all is quiet but in the basement diana as a rex's band is making some noise that. diana as a rex is working on her debut album in a few weeks she'll be reporting in the studio. a form of me of what the album that i'm currently working on can achieve so many people have put so much time energy heart and soul into it that they've helped compose to be big that. inspiring people to make the world a better place is what drives the 25 year old as her ex made headlines when she gave over a dozen free concerts in juvenile detention centers in germany she raises her voice

for the unheard not only within germany. throughout the last time i heard about george floyd being killed and how it happened i burst into tears because it's so terrible that people treat each other like that but. you mention. how people interact is the focus of as rex's songs it's hard to make the dream of having an album a reality and that's mainly for financial reasons the 3 thinks about the most difficult thing about releasing a song or the sides having a good idea is finding the right producers and musicians and the music up the baton as are. it's the earnings from her live appearances into the production budget for her album she's also trying to get state funding the 25 year old also studied education in order to work in human resources but her love of music was stronger with music has always been a big part of my life sometimes i think about giving up because it's so much work

but i can't imagine doing that it's a constant presence with me. she taught herself to play the piano both her german mother and nigerian father made music as you'd expect they encouraged her. actually feel very german in many ways my organization my structural thinking is very very german but a lot of my other personality traits come from my father. attributes her penchant for thinking on a grand scale to her nigerian father this includes the dream of releasing her own

album. that's just beautiful and all time well our sundays show more of our stories go. check out. on twitter now we leave you with images from la just came out mendez in a maryland district of make us leaving is a local produce and spreading shock and awe by household items and it is one that is thriving the spy of economic downturn caused by the corner virus from. traditional nigerian crafts you see your next dive i thought not.

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like a wink sack. is coming. probably came into being back normal. in the mood to sleep i started to temper 18 on d.w. . and . the world of literature as undergoing a massive shift the authors on this year's booker prize shortlist a more diverse and fresher than ever will meet one of the shortlisted authors sits . in her home zimbabwe where she's awaiting trial later this week and also on the show what looks like spaghetti turns out to be a different food entirely some aspects of life in germany that are guaranteed to surprise you and our series meet the germans. welcome to arts and

culture this year's booker prize shortlist is the most diverse ever and another 1st most of the nominees are debut authors rather doesn't include sid see she's nominated for her 3rd novel this morning bore body it's about a woman's descent into poverty and post colonial zimbabwe zimbabwe an author talked to us about her recent arrest for protesting government corruption. award winning novelist and now booker prize shortlists nominated at her home on family in zimbabwe. is jew in court on september the 18th the author was detained after staging a small protest part of a planned day of action on july the 31st holding up a placard saying we want better reform our institutions we went. walked down the road with my placards with their friends and then we stopped at an intersection so that the cars coming from all sides could see us and that is

when. we saw a riot truck coming down and they stopped and told us to get. the demonstration was against corruption and the worsening situation in the country with zimbabwe facing a spiraling economic and political crisis dunc around the is accused of claimed in a meeting with the intention to cause to incite public. breach of peace and. i also use of late. night regulation through necessary. criticism of the government whether on the streets or even on social media has been widely suppressed under the rule of zimbabwean president emerson clarke duncan says that an already bad situation is likely to get worse and this government can find

a different way of thinking. i do believe that the situation could twilight escalates because citizens have their backs against the war. the playwright a novelist is also a filmmaker whose works have won awards in europe and africa. but it's her latest book this movement to build body and a place on the booker prize shortlist the novel links the breakdown of its central character with turmoil in post-colonial zimbabwe are now done grampa's our future remains uncertain. i'm hoping and praying for the best there. will not be convicted of these charges. i haven't looked to see what the sentences are certainly for inciting 'd public i don't.

know the sentences can be jail. wow my colleague scott roxboro is following this story scott let's talk a little bit about succeed and this year's booker prize shortlist this is a very diverse group of authors and yet she still really stands out doesn't she yet definitely not just because of her political activism in the situation that she sent but she's also by far the most experienced writer on this list she's 61 she's been writing for 30 years before getting this recognition i also find her work really interesting particularly in all that she is nominated for this moral body because it's a sequel to her 1st novel and it features the same character the character back then was a young girl growing up in pre-independence zimbabwe and this carries on the story many decades later and she becomes a very disillusioned middle aged woman and sort of tells the story of zimbabwe from

its sort of the hope after independence to sort of the decline in corruption that of course the author itself knows far too well absolutely now what is your take on this year's booker prize shortlist on a whole yeah it's really interesting it's kind of surprising i mean the big names hillary mantell and tyler they're not there instead they have this much younger much more diverse group and i think the jury's deliberately trying to make a statement with this to choose much more diverse group i mean we have 4 women writers on the list we've got 4 nonwhite writers for the 6 nominees our 1st time novelist but what i really find interesting is well is the broad range of stories and themes that are represented in this year's shortlist i mean you've got huge sweeping historical dramas like the there's the shadow king which is set in ethiopia in the 1930 s. and then all the way to sort of neat near future economic disaster and cooks new wilderness you've got political books like real life from brain but also very personal family stories like douglas stewart struck the pain and bert sugar from.

so you can really see that the jury here is trying to say we're not just looking to the past and what used to be gray. literature in the last decades but maybe with these nominees were having a signpost to what literature could be like in the future hang in with me for a moment because there's another big headline in the world of publishing i want to talk to you about the controversy over j.k. rowling rowling of course best known for the harry potter books but the outrage currently circulating online is about her new detective novel troubled blood what can you tell us about this yeah 1st you have to have a little backstory here j.k. rowling has become a bit notorious online with certain communities particularly trans rights communities because of statements she's made i'm essentially. saying that trans women are not real women that's been very very controversial in this new book of hers there's a character who is a man he's

a serial killer and occasionally he dresses up as a woman to entice is victims that character is being seen as an example of rowling's transphobia by her critics now. obviously really didn't invent the trope of a man dressing up as a woman to kill people i mean that's everything that's been in psycho it's been a while so she didn't invent it but because of the comments that she's made this is being seen through the works being seen through this through this lens has been seen as example of or trance so called transfer. i mean i think the what's interesting here is that this is the world we live in right now i mean artists are not being judged just for the work they do but also for what they say what they do outside of there are particularly nowadays of course on social media and she's lost a lot of support in the last year huge amount of support roxborough thanks for coming on the show. and now every society it has to be said has its oddities and germany has got plenty for our latest installment of the series of

meet the germans our brave reporter rachel stewart explores the unique toilet habits of german men a german ice cream delicacy that baffles tourists and also windows that to the non german i have a kind of well unhinged. pretty amazing that you know including those interconnected world whenever you go to know that. you never seen before. this experience is also going to be completely different for each person so here's my list of 7 things that made me go. what when i saw them here in germany for the narita. first up an odd looking vegetable that's a staple in both kashmiri and german cooking. its name comes from the words cabbage and target but actually belongs to the company so how do we a call guardian germany by law go to a good didn't start it's also. love at. the

1st time i did this to a window in germany i thought the can't answer or tilt would. turn the handle like i did and completely but turn the handle all the way on the window or door will tilt in with this practical double digit with this style seems to have originated here in germany and it's now spread to many other countries. tourists in london often get excited about trip red double decker bus but for me it's all about the double decker train. in fact these kind of double decker trains can be found in many countries all over the world but i 1st met my eyes of one in germany on the novelty still hasn't worn off . something or rather someone i had never seen before i came to germany a gynecologist that's not out of the ordinary in the u.k. but here in germany women tend to go at least once a year for a full check up at their fallen art store women dr it took me

a while to pluck up the courage but don't worry it's really no big deal. twice a year the germans take their cars to the carriage and change the tires from winter to summer and back again i've never actually heard of the concept of winter tires before and to be honest it seemed a timetable top i mean yeah sure. but it's not canada so what exactly are the rules . so it's a month until i switch on so we can get you all because you know. even the. people not to shop in the north from this it will rain coming down slightly. as a moment for the. next up this sign. when you're in a good standing upright not necessarily many men in germany the 1st take a seat at least in the right time it's such an important cultural habit that it's proponents of the specific is it all sitting pia this method means no humans from

splash back will pull away and one study even suggested it can have health benefits to. you. sometimes you don't realize that something's missing in your life until it comes along a good example of that ice cream that looks like spaghetti but that is about getting ice is a hot favorite in the gemini's i think. it was invented in 115 years ago by pushing vanilla ice cream through a pasta making a contraption. then as your way puree that's not a soul and grated white chocolate from the palm of the empty. right now if you'll excuse me i'm about to get culturally integrated with the polish because the ice cream. might take some getting used to now when hip hop 1st came on the scene in new york and it was a subculture a lot of people in the mainstream associated with poverty and crime oh how the times have changed so the bees in new york the 1st major hip hop memorabilia

auction in the world fetching impressive prices including $600000.00 for this iconic plastic crown worn by rapper notorious b.i.g. at his last photo shoot days before his murder in 1997 high school love letters written by biggies rival to parch a core sold for $75000.00. one letter that wasn't in that option was to pox break up a letter he wrote to madonna that already got auctioned off last year after madonna tried to stop it well speaking of madonna the queen of pop has just revealed so be directing a movie about her own life co-writing the script with oscar winner diablo cody the film will charge for rise to global stardom from her early days in the new york club scene. well she's never directed

a movie that got good reviews but will be watching either way that's it for this edition of arts and culture see you again next hour to kick. it.

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