so we had to read 60 fighters are back, that africa's most successful radio drama series continues in the only persones are available online. if you can share and discuss on africa's face for other social media platforms. hello to you wherever you're watching from. welcome to a new edition of the 77 percent. the name is eddie micah, julia, 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 in nigeria. they also have an exclusive interview

with the professional and their german bundestag. and we find out why the south african rock poppy's open on maybe an independence hero. and the week before that's kick start the program with football, with about 3000000000 fans. it's either well or you know, sports now in africa, nigeria is one of football's biggest houses, a country house would use big name talents like j.g. and wangle khan. but there's more hidden gems out there. so we went to walk on the outskirts of up to meet a young man who is helping kids from his community, develop the out talents. nigeria has long been a hot spot for football. like many youngsters, always dreamt of becoming africa's best football player. it would have it,

john is now a cooch, i'm a unique star. the program has reached out to about $18000.00 youth in disadvantaged communities across africa. what motivated him to start was because salsa ministry to kids, in communities and most of the vices, such as drug abuse and so on. so i say to keep up with strategies on how to solve all of these challenges. so i said, i want to involve most i want to tell energies into sport activities. john has successfully humping over 64 young football players in 15 different communities, including here our community. he moves from street to street, identifying players with potential. he also has to convince parents to allow their children to joined a sucker academy, which aims to create a platform for young athletes to develop talent and build reus. i went to the houses to inform the parent and seek approval for their children to part spits 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 joins from up with the cheese sticks into known so it's not playing for nigeria and the 15 national team. many of the kids in this community. how the right combination of passion and talent, but a luck social support. so this is one of the young people would you think from the international this is they both were picking from one community unknown to the difference is now global. so i think they will go to lead to this is i want of arguments we want to belong to our feet on treats international about water austin currently who's the freestyle i want. and if it interests international competition, he's quick feel for the chance to pursue

a career in football. i was going to get you before i think when i was pushing the now give me one present. he said, i think i know this if you want, i want, i want of course, every success story comes to challenges from finding a good place to practice, to find justice and other equipment and taking care of the kids at all requires money. that's why i don't see them on rely on funding these are just the needs is totally free. doesn't this young people actually need phones that what we did was we got a grant of 2000 years before starting to buy. auditing is the need for lead balls on for training ground. the u.s. embassy in a uses that money to support a project. they need one,

both local and international awards. john's team a saudi $11.00 tournaments aim in the success i was john and his team much more success than i had, you know, football as my favorites 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 but enough about me, let's meet someone who actually made it in the big league. insley plays for the german when this guy f.c. can know. he's got nigerian parents that was raised and another like him out. kingsley all says he's a 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 childhood and is a boy 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 with a heart and dream and was part lies. and football has also found a new home in economy all city of cologne. why you raise a child of god is so great the battle. it's a sport, the team spirit, and the passion of the fans that make his boys strive for the 1st star on his jersey. they have to cologne, 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 with the money went to meet him on his home turf in cologne. right

here in cologne. one of the biggest football clubs in germany, when i say biggest, i don't really mean things, but i mean it has a reach 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 clawing. things 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. crazy. they really love, you know, you enjoy it. they enjoy football. yes. and 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 that you know, strikers not, you know, defend what anything i like. i like to make. because i, for me to make really like this. 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 i want to talk. i was also like to make goals, but they're not there yet. but i also like celebrates, you know, talking of war, you could try and he started yelling for the funds for the 1st time. one, how was the feeling? it's scary. see, 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 like, you know 1st. 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 for my parents, like for my father was like school to support the 1st if you don't do school so you have to balance both. i had to balance both 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 or what our style of calls the challenges that come with it. having made it to this level, you must have experienced a little telling as along the way. there are so many you looking 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 your image. and of course, there will be always hard times and you only for food cause for everything in life, hard times will 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 that's 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 is digital platforms are so so famous and among, you know, even the fanbase, there's a lot of connection there. i mean, you can see media thing, but some of these comments could 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,

this shit 2 years should play or do next time video. 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 yourself and to know who you are. even in bad taste or in good taste, you know, because if you're not strong enough, you don't know, you are the things for the little comes with you. you can, you can get 1000 positive comments. and if you get one bad one, it can get you know, so yeah that's, that's, 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 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's affects me when and when i see it happen against other guys, you know, other black guys or even if you're black or from another race show, you know, it's of course it affects me, so there's a lot of me. so if you focus on it and just try to come out of, i'll go for that motion and yeah, for me it's just to 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. but i try to give it to court and i can make peace from god. and i just keep going on, you know, that's for me, that's for me. what helps, but it's not, it's not difficult. you know, that's the end of our chat with kingsley. he's a boy take it easy from see right here. by

great chops bad. sadly, racism still exists in football. i am confident that 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 the name ju punky. he's keeping children spirits up during the pandemic with his spontaneous clown routines . for just a latte today, it's like any other day places make up to transform into his alter ego, joe punk. but corner virus measures mean joe punky can't clown around kids, betty party and other 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 whole

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. break out of the well, i don't know. started out joe makes a fraction of what he used to make before the pandemic. and his cost you money, improvised facemask. he stands out in this market. but punky wouldn't be if he didn't clown around outside so that so that is joe hopes, things will get back to normal here. so until then he will continue to bring joy to

the streets of lagos and put a smile on a kid's face. 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 african rob, your mobius. i'm who had stumbled upon didn't use comic series african roots now, whose real name is simon big boy. he's a descendant of the namibian national hero. and think that boy, you know how much you've who fought against german colonial rule today. you can spot him on the median dollar notes here, mobius some produce his leads as music video in collaboration with v.w. . we went to meet him in cape town, a rich boy, the title of humility assumes latest release. the track is an ode to cut jane

hendrix with boy. unama chief vit boy died fighting german colonial troops in present day namibia, south african rap by human would be a sum, is a direct descendant of that boy's his goal, inspiring people to take pride in their ancestry. we don't have that icons and people who are often only are us or che guevara, or want to fade or whatever. and so it's so important for people to have that too, to, i think a beautiful way to put it is to say the 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 a, 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, but i was your how do you speak? it's not substandard or this or whatever. this is so important. this is one of the most important things that the big afrikaans picture needed right now in the us and is the luck because the news, but the analysis of data to see those funds and this limited because it is empowerment and education of one's cultural identity is here mobius sums mission. it's something his friend and to to 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 he wind through mountains to actually just get a copy. and he actually let you go to me, look at it,

we actually made copies, or even a single page of the search is reflected on. the rapid skin can associate tattooed the face and seal of the nama chief on to humid because some arm, the reason indignant, weighs on my arm, is because there's no need to reach you find inside africa. and in that a good place said yet in one of my songs, i say you give me an elson. i let a zoo in that. you know, it's the equivalent, but you'll find nothing and yet is born here. in namibia hendrik. vic, 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 it may be, 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 nature bella, which is and i contact them immediately, and 2 days later, she came back to me like, whoa, now i'm going to boys' everything. and there's this game of lights. i'm so happy that it's all of them. just city is to believe that the resulting video is a powerful tributes to hinder it. but boy, good to see a female be acim is for all descendants. the see that's the fun of the powerful tributes 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 your position would disagree with us on what's ours . but for you to get young a variance perspective on the election. you followed an activist on election observer before and after the polls elections and i have recourse. they

were tense marked by violence and the results of 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 in south 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. this had not to cost us about the collective my vote incurred with the intention of fortune, so that i can make my choice when we would consider how things went as it were for to win. when with us were only one real candidate because the election, credible without any opponent, is a credible, really before the polls, police had been 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 the youth 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 or force. there was spots of violence even before the elections and police and his fellow activists knew that their political engagement could be risky. wolf, 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. 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 every coast. as result started pouring in, it became clear that president ouattara had won 94 percent of the votes. it's just 3rd term in office. something that his opponents say goes against the country's constitution for greece 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. and the youths are used to achieve political goals. when you see it's them, people who fight its own people who don't know all the things up in and around 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 for you. what we as africa's youth, should be aware that we have a lot of power. we expect change. now on that positive note, it's time to celebrate one of our all be the commodity. she has been named one of the 100 most influential young africans of 2020 by the gonna be our family bonds, media, and africa. you the, what's? yes, yes. 3. my name is edith kim. i mean i work with t w a program called the 77 percent. you should watch it be really great content. if he did come on, he is a journalist, news anchor, and most importantly, one of our very own the 77 percent hosts. before coming to d, w. kenyon worked many years for 10 years, broadcaster 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 africans. yes, the people of africa and especially the young people deserve to have their stories had and they deserve 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. thank you. and we're very honored to have you on our team revelations once again. now, 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 father and the big boy stay safe to leave. he has been free to believe this is a change of meaning to the need to keep a lid. thank you. but you know, i look at that emoji fly me the pose as opposed to even feel some of the don't go into the field. feel a little useless mystique to them when they come up with a dream far feel that i present the other. but the kind do need a nipple only because my in the lead for the most of the letter is the end of the amendment to me. doesn't believe the book. somebody has a goal down to even it because they've used

a little bit of the billionaire might be political. boy click, click, click, click, click, click, boy, good luck, steam must i lose the lot because he knows. but then i listen to the thing. good, fun, fun and listen gloomy because it just being kind of the stuff good thing can stop when i listen. stop this leak and blacks as well as this guy. but meaningless because my list of things to come to think i'm going

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