every journey begins with the 1st step and every language. the 1st word is in germany to learn german, one simple course, german hello to you wherever you're watching from. welcome to a new edition of the 77 percent. the name is eddie mica judea and i'm honored to have your company today. this is what we've got for you on the show today. we check out the talents of some young aspiring football players. girls who have an exclusive interview with the professional and the german born this week. and we find out why

he's made the independence euro. and let's kick start the program with football with about 3000000000 fans the well it's now in africa, nigeria is one of football's biggest houses. a country house would use big name talents like j.g. . and there's more hidden gems out there. so we went on the outskirts of up to meet a young man who is helping kids from his community develop the talent. nigeria has long been a hot spot for football. like many youngsters, always dreamt of becoming africa's best football player. but it would have it, john is now a cool, a unique star. the program has reached out to about 800000 youth in disadvantaged communities across africa. what motivated me to start was because

salsa ministry to kids, in communities and most of the vices, such as drug abuse and so on. so i said how we started this on how to solve all of these challenges. so i said, i want to involve most i want to tell energies into sports activities. john has successfully humping over 64 young football players in 15 different communities, including here on community. he moves from street to street, identifying players with potential. he also has to convince parents to allow their children to joined a soccer academy, which aims to create a platform for young athletes to develop their talent and build reus. i went to the houses to inform the parent and seek approval for that. you're going to spit in our training programs, and what we also did was we bust them just to encourage them because most of the

less privileged, most of them don't have parents. they just hunger dusted skeets. one of john's from up with the cheese sticks in chino, so it's not playing for nigeria's under 15 national team. many of the kids in this community have the right combination of passion and talent, but a luck social support. so this is one of the young people who would you pick from this long international? this is they both were picking from one community unknown to the difference. so i think a little goes a little and out. this is i want of arguments you want to belong to the 5th on tricks international. freestyle about a ball to austin, kind of who's the freestyle i want. and if eaten trix international competition, he's quit full for the chance to pursue a career in football. i was going to get to before i think, very good smelling when there was no opportunity, not give me if you want. i want,

i want of course, every success story comes for challenges from finding a good place to practice, to find justice and other equipment and taking care of the kids. it all requires money. that's why just one relies on funding for the need to tell the freak doesn't actually need phones that what we did was we got it grants often times but the need for lead balls on 14. what the u.s. embassy in up, which i use is that money to support the project at any one, both local and international awards jaunts team. so anyone want to nominate aimin to success? i was john and his team much more success than i had. you know,

football as my fear was for, but to be honest, i'm not very good at it. but at least i know how to find the back of the next so they have a cover. but enough about me, let's meet someone who actually made it in the big league. can sleep, plays for the german bundestag, our club f.c. can know. he's got nigerian parents, but was raised and another. check him out. kingsley 25 years old, dutch nigerian, and plays in the german bundesliga on the field, he runs up to 35.85 kilometers per hour, making him the 4th fastest player in germany. the defender was born in munich but grew up in both korea and the netherlands. since his childhood and wanted to be a footballer,

he had to learn how to balance school education and overcome setbacks. he now plays for the f.c. current and scored his 1st goal in february 2020. a dream come true, hard and dream and was part lies. and football has also found a new home in the congo city of cologne. while your straight talk about the old is so great the battle. it's a sport, the team spirit, and the passion of the fans that make it easy boys strive for the 1st star on his jersey. we have to call in france, definitely know how to threw a party. but we wanted to find out more about what is he really like away from the limelight on the local festivities? well, my colleague bustamante went to meet him on his home turf in cologne. we're right here in cologne. one of the biggest football clubs in germany, when i say biggest, i don't really mean trophies, but i mean it has a rich traditional culture here in germany. and we are blessed to have our very

wonderful guy here kingsley. how is the feeling when you are told kingsley you have to play for what is emotionally i think it's, it's crazy. you know, if you come, if you come to cologne, you know, you're stories about anything like, yeah, it's nice. you know, it's beautiful, beautiful city, beautiful. but i think the 1st time you play in us in this stadium, it's crazy. people are so crazy. there's a real of people, you know, you enjoy it. they enjoy football. and then no, no, i don't even have words for it. really. it's very crazy. being affable. i mean, many of them want to be, you know, those who score goals to be stars, not, you know, 20, defend what, anything i like i like to make.

because for me to make really i like this. i like, i like to run the line, be aggressive, and of course i have a lot of times i go to the front. you know, of course i was a like all the talk. i also like to make girls, but they're not there yet. also like celebrates, you know, talking of mortals, you could try and he started doing for fun for the 1st time. one, how was the feeling this crazy. i don't know what, of course, when, when you 1st one 1st me, i'm going to make it go, you know, think i can do this. i'm going to celebrate like this, and i'm going to do days and then when i made the goal, i didn't even know what they did. you know so much before as i just, i just think of course for this big moment it was,

it was very nice. and you always want to be yeah, always on the football player. but from my parents, like from my father was like school to support the 1st if you don't do well in school. so you have to balance both. i had to buy this book because for me it was like, ok, i just want to be football and nothing else. i don't want to do anything else but football, but i was a smart kid. my father knew it, but i was like, i didn't want to do so much for school. so i was like, ok 1st from the 1st. yes or no. school 1st. and talking about football. your last time was the challenges that come with it. having made it to this level, you must have experienced a little things along the way that so many you look up to you. how do you handle all these precious? because there's a certain way that maybe people want you to look like for the image. and of course there will be always hard times and the only for football is for everything in life

hard times to come. but if you realize that the hard times will make you to be, we have to be so just take it and go through the process and never, never give up. i think this the biggest thing because people always tell you like you can do it. you can make it to something else, but the thing is if you just trust yourself, you know who you are and what you can and just just do it. you go through the process now and is digital platforms so, so famous and popular among, you know, even the fanbase, there's a lot of connection there and you can see media thing. but some of these comments even affect you mentally. you know, of course, i think if you're not, if you're not strong enough it's, it can affect, you know, imagine if you, if you play a bad match and everyone does like a that should 3 years should play or do next time better if you can play with these things, these things will come and if you play good music, they are great playing here. yeah,

you got to be strong and that's why it's important to believe. you know, we are even in bad taste or in good taste. you know? because if you're not strong enough, you don't know who you are, the things the little comes with. you can, you can get 1000 positive comments. and if you get one bad one, it can get you know, so that's life. i mean, one of the challenges that we're facing right now in the sporting world is the issue of racism and discrimination. and we've seen it pop up over and over again. and of course, during your journey from one of the genii i've ever been subjected to such amusing yeah, of course. social social media from the fans or at school at young age. of course it's affected me, of course. and it's odd to hear, you know. and for me, it affects me when and when i see it happen against other guys, you know,

other black guys who, even if you're black or from another race show, you know, it's of course it affects me. so there's a lot with me. so if you focus on it and just try to come out of out of washington . yeah, for me it's just but for me, what else is just pray? i bring everything, i just bring everything to god. so if i feel pressure or feel offended everything, i don't try to react to it. i try to give it to court and i get my piece from god. and i just keep going on, you know, that's for me less for me. what else? but it's not, it's not difficult, you know, so difficult. that's the end of our chat with kingsley. he's a boy easy from see right here by great chops back. sadly, racism still exists in football. i am confident about together. we can fight it.

now i'm sure you agree that they get 2020 has been a strange one from mt football stadiums to restrictions in our private lives. it's been a bit disheartening at times, but there's always a reason to smile. we met one man in lagos who goes by, i mean, he's keeping children spirits up during the pandemic with his spontaneous clown routines. for joseph today, it's like any other day this make up to transform into his alter ego joe punky. but corner virus measures mean joe punky can't clown around active spent the party and on a social events like he used to. so the former school teacher has had to find other ways to make ends meet while the party business is one. lives in his shop in lagos, and travels nearby markets in neighborhoods to sell his balls and sponsors. he says it hasn't been easy,

says the brick out of the wall . i don't know. stand out joe makes a fraction of what he used to make before the pandemic. and his costs, you money, provide facemask, he stands out in this market. but punky wouldn't be if he didn't clown around outside so that is joe hopes, things will get back to normal here soon. until then, he will continue to bring joy to the streets and put a smile on kids' faces, especially during the hard times of college 19. that's just beautiful. never

underestimate the importance. especially during difficult times like these. now, a few weeks back, we got an e-mail from south africa. your mobius them, who had stumbled upon didn't use comic series african roots whose real name is simon. but boy, he's a descendant of the mummy, be a national hero. and think that boy, you know how much you've who fought against german colonial rule to do, you can spot him on the median dollar notes here. mobius some produce his lead says music video in collaboration. we did, we went to meet him in cape town. the late good boy, the title of humility. a sim's latest release. the track is an ode to cut jane hendrix with boy unama chief vic boy died fighting german colonial troops in

present day namibia, south african rapper. humility. a sum is a direct descendant of that voice. his goal, inspiring people to take pride in their ancestry. we don't have that icons that people saw off the loneliest yosh or take invited out, or one faith or whatever. and so it's so important for people to have that to, to i think the beautiful way to put it is to say that rock from which we were cut, you know, to, to know this is who we are. we can strive for with his people here will be as some refers to the so-called colored community in post apartheid south africa, the community faces economic challenges and prejudices their way of speaking. the afrikaans language he says, is often associated with gangsterism and poor education. they're making fun of that so that need 1st needed to be liberated. and for me,

for about 10 years now, then was all i focused on is to go into schools and say, boo, but i'd say what i was your, how do you speak? it's not a sub standard of this, so whatever this is so important, this is one of the most important things that the big afrikaans picture needed right now is you steam must lose the love because he knows. but denialism, this thing goes for an analyst. gloomy discuss, it is empowerment and education of one's cultural identity is human besoms. mission. it's something his friend and to 2 artist kind of sashi can attest to and i remember there was a term we use to get the book of enoch would be and you win through mountains to actually just get a copy. and he actually let you go to mimic a deeply actually made copies or even a single page. the search is reflected on the rapid skin. kennesaw sheet tattooed

the face and seal of the nama chief onto a human to be a sums on the reason. indignant weighs on my arm, is because there's no need to reach you find inside africa. and in that exact place said, yet in one of my songs, i say, you give me an elson. i lays you in there. you know, it's the equivalent, but you'll find nothing and yet is born here. in namibia hendrik of it, boy is a national hero. even appearing on the country's $10.00 notes, but in south africa where he was born, he's relatively unknown while preparing his music video. himmel, be a some stumbled upon a feature on his ancestor by de w.'s african roots series. i like using what's out there, or maybe you know why? because somebody didn't they, i hope somebody will use it for something else. so why do you want to compete with something? and then i found this by the age of ella, which is, and i contact them immediately, and 2 days later, she came back to me like, whoa, now i'm going to boy's everything. and there is this column of light. so i'm so

happy that each of all of them just said yes, believe that the resulting video is a powerful tribute to him, brick. but boy could just be a sim. is proud to said yes i was in the way, but that's definitely a powerful tribute and it's extra special doing that's music. now let's go to ivory coast. the country held elections at the end of october. but the web, i could tell by large parts of the opposition would disagree with that. to get younger variance perspective on the election, we followed an activist on election observer before and after the polls elections. in my request, they were tense marked by violence and the result for the splintered incumbent president alassane ouattara won the election by

a landslide on election day was an official election observer. in the run up to the election. the student and civil society activists had installed run a campaign to encourage people to vote. but most major opposition parties boycotted the vote with only one independent candidate challenging what her and on voting day . relief has had not to cost us about the collective my vote incurred with the intention of water so that i can make my choice when we would consider how things went as it were for 2 women who we knew they were only one real candidate. this is the election, credible without any opponent. he is a credible, really, really created before the cold police had pinned his hopes on a free and fair election. in 2010, he experienced ivory coast post-election violence, 1st hand. after that, he made it his mission to mobilize voters, especially the youth, to effect peaceful change through the ballot box. this is,

if you decide to say no to something, things can change quickly. young people are not aware of a very present 77 percent of the population. they're not or of the power of their strength. there was spots of violence even before the elections and police and his fellow activists knew that their political engagement could be risky. and we are salted, we are threatened, but we won't give up. that's what we call commitment. so don't be afraid. don't be afraid. on election day, the voter turnout was low. 54 percent of ivorians came out to vote according to the electoral board. but the police think the numbers might even have been lower some of the polling stations and even open or closed early due to the low voter turnout . according to me,

democracy has once again regressed in ivory coast. as a result, started pouring in, it became clear that president ouattara had won 94 percent of the vote. it's just 3rd term in office. something that his opponents say goes against the country's constitution for police and his friends is a disappointment, even though many of them chose not to vote. we have, it's the youth who suffer from the political decisions of the youths are used to achieve political goals. when you see it's them, people who fight its own people who die. all the things happen in our own this election. if you ask me, nobody listened to the youth and that i think if the voices of young people were heard, police believes things could be different. after all, this is not the last election and for police, that's nothing reason to continue his struggle. tell you what we are, suffer because you should be aware that we have

a lot of power and the facts change. now, on that positive note, it's time to celebrate one of our own either the commodity. she's been the one of the 100 most influential young africans of 2020 by the gonna be our family bonds media. i'm africa, you the, what's? yes, yes. very. my name is edith q. money. i work with t w a program called the 77 percent. you should watch it really great content. and edith is a journalist, news anchor, and most importantly, one of our very own the 77 percent hosts before coming to d, w to kenyon work to many years for 10 years broadcast to katie, yet she is known for her sharp questions, her passion, and her determination to create a bright future for africa's youth. now she has been recognized as one of the 100

most influential young africa. yes, the people of africa and especially the young people deserve to have their stories had. and they didn't have to ask to be asked questions with dignity and serious and important questions and to be given that platform to speak on these issues. so i feel validated, i feel motivated, i feel very inspired. and honestly, just very, very honest. thanks and we're very honored to have you on our team revelations once again, as always would like to know your thoughts on all that we've been covering on the show today. so send us an e-mail to 77 d w dot com or get in touch with us on social media brings us to the end of the show for today. thanks for joining us. i'll leave you with him and his powerful tributes to his. and the big boy,

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