in february. watching d.w. news live from berlin more world news coming up at the top of the hour our current affair series reporter is next with a look at colombia's covert 19 airlift downloads to visit d w dot com from michael look at winterland for news at the top the hour. more than a 1000 years ago europe witnesses a huge construction boom. christianity for the established itself. both religious and secular leaders or an eager to display their power. to trace beginnings. and create the tallest biggest and the most

beautiful structures. is how massive churches are created. consciousness the feat rolls starts april 12th on d w. the only way to get here is by air or ship dr camilo create oh has organized an airlift to bring much needed help during the kobe pandemic today they're off to tim b. key near colombia's pacific coast this dangerous area is teeming with armed groups since the beginning of the pandemic the need has become even greater. holders not scalpel handles not sterile compresses they say doctor the compressor

is on steroids so much is lacking in the. doctor coming up the 8 to works as a plastic surgeon in bogota where he performs cosmetic surgery but also helps to speak accident victims. he lives with his wife in one of the better neighborhoods of the city his housekeeper comes to clean regularly. the doctor says goodbye to her and leaves for the day. where the more. full of the us but it's this every day i see this contrast between my own life.

and wants going on in my country. i think the opportunities life is granted now come with the responsibility. they're all aflutter yeah. yeah when the pandemic began dr prieta started collecting donations. such as masks medicines and disinfectants mostly from big companies and 5 donors. volunteer pilots at the pacific civil air patrol for example are also happy to support dr prieto in his efforts. 3 years. occasionally there are complications to deal with. pilot jose luis ollie better those talks about

a recent mishap while attempting to land after being warned of a house on the runway he was forced to fly over and restart his landing maneuver. during trips to remote areas such experiences are commonplace with no pence's around the landing strip no tower and no air traffic controllers. fortunately upon arriving at tenby key he finds the runway empty. at the beginning of the pandemic the community was virtually cut off. there is no road leading here and since last march air traffic has been a regular. this presents a problem for the inhabitants who receive food and clothing by air and ship and

hospital supplies are particularly vital the hospital is responsible for around 20000 residents in the surrounding area. it lacks even the most basic facilities no blood reserves tests for oxygen tanks regional health official carmen yassmin have none does is exasperated. to them often as not only this but i don't know what else they get they order we have many remote areas and it can take people 7 or 8 hours to get here. and when they do they often can't be treated. then they referred to a large hospital but that cost time and money and would have the proof fatal for the patient. and if this hospital is a lifeline for all of tim because they've. been making. this woman needs help for her daughter she's been suffering from severe diarrhea for days. they even took

a boat to reach the hospital. but to her dismay the doctors can't help. that's what they want but as i've been here for 3 days with my daughter. to let it examine it but couldn't give her the treatment she needed. at the diarrhoea went away on its own but. even though the hospital has the best equipment in the area at the moment there's no running water time and again the power goes out. protective clothing is also scarce. so dr ed got it by nias is delighted to receive dr p. a toast protective masks. is certainly important down with. a very important as it's the only way for us to fight a pandemic. that. they don't but it's even more important to talk to the people and

build awareness and there. were no one there that day party here at night with almost no one wearing masks. you know you're going to really see masks in the hospital. and all that the pope but i mean i'm a doctor prieto does what he can and. several people from the area have gathered in the waiting room. where he is answering questions about a cold bit. in television when they talk about the corona virus. sometimes they talk about the effectiveness of the vaccination. but over a longer period of time. so if i were to get vaccinated today how long would i be immune. and does it make a difference if i felt the 1st or 2nd chance rather. than one of

the other then everyone with a look at this hour i can only tell you what we know so far since the vaccine is quite new you look at public opinion we're still learning a lot. but some studies have shown the vaccine provides 8 months of immunity on the other 3 with a fortune with it might be a bit more. work anymore we're not sure. what and we have to wait and see. no doctor prieto treats a boy with a severely infected hand having to make do with few supplies in an attempt to avoid having to amputate the child's finger instead of putting the boy under he uses a local anesthetic with no sterile gloves or compresses the media in making that the finding inequality is hard. but when you're in

a hospital like this that you really understand the world of media it's. a lot how do you want it means to not have access to health can that you know we were purpose you know that i thought what it means when doctors want to help their fellow human beings is not caught. because they don't have the results it was worth of food. and they don't have the connections to the state government would not entitle. for the people here there are bigger concerns than the virus. masks play hardly any role in their everyday lives. there's not much work in the region and people are afraid of criminal gangs since the area is a corridor for drug trafficking. dr prieto feels it's

all the more important to win over people's trust that's why he makes house calls. today he's brought masks and explains how to use them to protect against the virus always ask for. more than only one of them he explains to this woman how to use a massive correctly some of it was to get us out about us he offers her several of them but asks her to dispose of them properly and also with us aren't those of you not going to like you know. he shows her that she should wear the. with the blue side facing out. the quote. it's important to his donors that he documents his work since donations often don't reach their proper destination so they are almost. at a very good idea dr prieto tells the boat driver he's ready to set off again.

after delivering the masks he heads back to. receive his vocal i think of 1st they were a bit skeptical and dismissive of the mosques. but then they were really thankful it was going to as i hope don't use them whenever possible is going to remember those of us either. back in tim beaky there's good news a military helicopter is arriving with the 1st vaccines with 400 doses for health care workers and people over 83 this is. the town has been waiting a long time for this colombia's vaccination program got up to a slow start but with vaccines now reaching even remote areas there is now at least hope. just one little jab and the 1st doctor in to be key

is backs unaided. you. see your. doctor prieto hopes the vaccination is will change the public mood making people less skeptical of the health measures. on his way back to the airstrip he stops one last time and spontaneously hands out a few more masks. because i think i want to tell him i feel like we haven't done much and a lot is still lacking. the pandemic has left behind deep wounds in aquia inequality and injustice persist. but i really still our actions aren't in that line and. each day we are creating hope that was. the one

that can really affect change. and through and hopefully it will help us live in a better country one data can do that i don't buy the whole. dr coming up radiator started his airlift in the pandemic. but he wants to continue it even if everyone is vaccinated and the virus is finally brought under control.

come from nigeria to save the world the soup some economic republic. for scream i come in here a standard life was. inspired to do good not a way to fix the bush years but africa and again are being allowed supervillains everywhere had better watch out the 77 percent. was faster than the speed of sound. is a luxury the colored man design icon and the technological wonder. surrounding the supersonic aircraft the story of this tragic. concorde the fall of the legend. 5 minutes on.

to us. reporter. so if i were a superhero this is what i would look like and my name would be if. we clearly have something special for bad for you on the show but i'm not going to give away too much yet i could judea and you're welcome to the 77 percent. i was usual so they show it's packed with amazing stories from all over the african continent and we have a guest joining us in the studio it's after

a chat. and from nigeria the fun of comic republic that got 5 out of africa will be talking about that comic on creative industries in africa. just made and i recall just. last but not least. now just like you i grew up watching batman superman and all those superheroes now that was cool but the only problem was they did not look like me so i couldn't really identify with them if you know what i mean but there's a new group of superheroes in town. and his team of young comics have created the universe of africa. watch out gotham city. is taking over. the gotham city of west africa. around 14000000 people need. to be

found to live far away in america and be out quite. to change this by making comics an africa he's fulfilling a childhood dream i think it was about 5 years ago my mum would buy me comic books and our troops every single one i completely ruined the cupboards yeah that's basically how i don't i've put a piece of paper on to the make them out for my pencil don't know flew over us today with a print of the back of my do we go to a school just these troops. are. crying and all of a nigerian superheroes are proud to live here and the public's to get that kind of alternative africa marvel universe in many ways under the watchful eye of g d p r since moved to london with a whole thought. will soon achieve an international good to see.

one of my major to come aboard because to push the african continent and the continent you know it's a new world. and to do that you need infrastructure much infrastructure that we can find back home in nigeria you know london is. just right but what do people think of comic books back home. in the slums of makers at least that's what a case of think if only they had ya own super pas just like the cocktails when she flaunts a gun i was thought did i know he didn't go for it was too many for the gag dang it why did. you change al's week. if you were in lagos i'll tell him to do so many tea because nigeria know we are soft. during. the war. there were. you.

even businesswoman isabella can identify with a superhero and. i know the white people could be superheroes but africa we have you know you can see how. all powerful she's really. good in math and believes public is successful because it closest i got. i strongly believe that the people who approach women people forced him to put the focus on you know weld of mainstream comics comic republic sees itself as an alternative we need to take control of the night and so the future has become the public to be a movie's going to be on t.v. should we need to be on mobile phones to be in people's homes i mean people's feet you know we see our figure that makes you see our characters as

a bridge between i prefer the well we can all be here i you don't have to have super powers to do that without comics and. i gave. some cool stuff here as the man behind the africans to fight jim martin welcome to the sense of you know ok so you believe that nigeria and indeed africa should have its own supply why is that so important it's necessary for any people and tribe or any race to have heroes and i can start look like them people become look up trans pirates. so . if someone says ok why can't we just stick to batman and superman is that a big deal you know there's always that thing about identification you know when when it's familiar when you when you can see yourself in that thing then it becomes

easy for you to believe in that they enter aspired to it so it's necessary that people of color you know you see people of color or diversity no matter where you are being represented and for it to give you something to look up to tell us about comic or public what exactly goes on that comic republicans the group of individuals that have come together that basically to toe the africans to react to push the african narrative in the right light so that the world can see how awesome the continent is not just the negative stuff but the positive stuff as it was a good summary of all that happened to them so i'm sure somebody a very busy day yeah yeah yeah yeah it is i mean we spend the whole day you know people think we're just drawing but no we actually have the stories of a whole generation of people to convert we have loads to toe we're always creating and it's so much more but it's fun that's into it as the most important having fun while working and now you did not really go to

a school to learn all of this right or not and now for young people watching us now what are we saying then is it ok to just have the talent and do with it or would we encourage them to go to school to add more value there's something i always say that show me somebody would go and build eventually trump anybody would just talent so i mean when i started we didn't have a low fifty's to look for but there's the internet these days there's something else it is the school of you tube right so i would advise anybody you know about to get talent and then one of them make it a skill and that way you will always be on top i say good of you do you think that's the subset just so you have moved to london writes. why would you leave nigeria to go to london what really made you make that move the dream of chemical problem was to put africa. stories on the map and to take africa to the world and unfortunately there isn't enough infrastructure in nigeria or government supports for us to be able to do that and i've taken here as far as i can in nigeria and

then i move to london you know to be able to get the infrastructure there to be able to take coming public to where it's supposed to be which is a global brand and as a go so far. i mean but if a structure. is doing well yeah we do talk in our problems that there are many other challenges facing the creative industry for instance in kenya inquiry from cameroon makes more money renting out his agreements down to the movies he makes why is that. making movies where we don't make any money out of it will help in this we have no support we have not funding i don't if is crazy if you think you are stupid especially when you are doubt educated when you doubt physically able mentally able to do something else and then when the passion is what drives you when that enthusiasm is what drives you it becomes very difficult for some for if in mecca in

cumberland to want to do something else because you feel like filmmaking is where you are. so so we had a clearly talk about some of the challenges talking about funding and of course like you rightly said infrastructure now how do you imagine companies like yours survive or go around these challenges ok 1st things 1st i think if you provide what investors need you need to as a creative use distill bankability process for africa we need to prove a company a product started out creative come out you know it be from the creative space and go into you know the commercial space and provide value for investors right we need to build the business and when it's a business who fund investors and things when. one foster you know what one challenge that i have is it seems that across africa when when you tell someone hey i draw i'm a creative artist it seems people have this sort of negative perception about it

how do we change these mindsets oh that's a very interesting question i think in the to change the mindset we need to start from within where we need to be with us so to look more professional we need to issue so that we have the professional discipline right that we need to do our homework we need people to see that it's not just a vocation it's actually a business so my recommendation is for creatives to actually stats are trying to change your perception and the rest of the war before them and what goes into changing this perception is a discipline of snap limit thing differently or how does is what i mean there's a saying that says if your room act like a room and. so if you're in business act like business people you know everything 1st impressions the way you act the way you relate this to the language the business there's a language to running a company the language of project management things like that so i think we should say that i am pick up you know i'm tick professional courses do things that have to

do with business lend the trade learn the language and then we'll be able to change the perception so is it isn't that easy to start in the creative arts industry in your case a comic and as easily attach a business to it or does one come before the other there's just so the young folks coming in and stand all this of course i mean what business you are you're selling something or you're trading something so out is that with the creative pot have a product right to make sure you actually have the creativity and the product and then when you have a product that you attach the business that i see them among getting some some tips there now what is it says we know a lot of the challenges are you talk about funding infrastructure what major support should governments do because i know you normally say. don't wait on the government you the individual like you rightly said that the creative artists should invest more in themselves and look at. business part of it and move on but

we're really does a government have to pay and all this other government has a huge rule to play for example they should make it easy for people who have proven themselves worthy in this sense easy access to funds so if a creative comes and they have a product right and they have a good business plan as long as it looked it has the possibility of being profitable you don't need for it to be profitable right it just needs to have the possibility and if that creative or business can prove that then the government should make it easy for them to get formed even if it's a loan for them to pay back for them to be able to do this right and of course basic infrastructure if there's light you know we don't have to spend so much money on power so i mean if they could do justice to and think of an ability to fund for people who prove themselves credit worthy and also providing parra the industry would change greatly so definitely governments should come on board and support to the creative arts industry i'm a superhero's i'll do my part ok now i'm going to give you the chance to talk to this 77 percent of africa's youth watching right now because i'm sure most of you

and a creative odyssey my own sister is a great artist i told you earlier what's the message for for those that really want to make a career or a life in this business i would tell some 7 percent that it's in their hands they should take full control of the destiny is i mean we older people don't appreciate who we are what we do we need to prove ourselves and like everything else once you've proven yourself the world is your your playfield is just go for it go for it so it lets you buy you a name would you have you may be a superhero what name did you have in my. birth. which others are supposed to be happy about it or not but deal with this galaxy madmen. i mean i don't know but anyway thanks a lot jay thanks for having me lend a lot for me and i'm sure you guys have also lends a lot now if you want to see even more african superheroes recently launched

a new production of african roots social media week in the us check it out. africa. people stories. to school. peoples. by peace to good spirits. but also to school. in the should. be to. all you are free condoms. i'm sure you're curious to know mall and fun fact that's actually

a co-production webcomic republic so go subscribe to our you tube channel and discover for african history now for all the talk leeds fans watching us right now did you know that almost 70 percent of the world's cocoa beans come from only 4 west african countries that's ivory coast my own country gonna geria uncommon ivory coast and ghana alone cultivate more than the house of the welsh cocoa but most of the farmers work on the terrible conditions and get paid peanuts. the big companies i thinking all the profits overseas. so former banker manuel from ivory coast wants to change this fight producing. just truckloads. of cocoa beans emmanuel bowers greatest passion the 35 year old into pin europe produces chocolate in a small factory in abidjan he selects only the best cocoa beans then crushed them

by hand as soon as the piece is small enough a day out together with cocoa butter and till the must become sleek which. this requires a great deal of care the mixture must be stirred long enough otherwise the chocolate test spitter. what fascinates me about chocolate is its complexity against a tory architecture a complexity of the our messed up must be added joke to a product with a beautiful alchemy making beloki. that accent in mind when produces chocolate in ivory coast is very unusual. his country is the world's largest some playa of cocoa beans but after the harvest the beans are mostly shipped to europe and america where they are father processed and made into chocolate but this didn't

stop the former banker from opening his own chocolate factory. in 2015 at 1st his family didn't understand his decision to size up the quickest thing for me because they all thought it was crazy that i really shouldn't do it so there was a lot of sadness and disappointment they really weren't happy that i was quitting the bank to become a joke. but today i have done everything that i can to make them proud and i don't regret it. for the add just a sprout you know to get by it was ok to post here in total to the production. pearse's takes between $2.00 and $3.00 days in order to set himself apart from the competition x.l. emmanuelle focuses on chocolate. employs around 10 people and works with a cooperative of local cocoa farmers but his vision is bigger than just creating jobs in his own country. industry is based in the world but it is neglected it's

on the margins if i can do something that can really impact these african women help them get out of poverty and i'll be very satisfied it's blockquote we have the right to get rich from chocolate. produces around to $10000.00 chocolate bars per month julie it helps with the packaging she has been working in the team for several years. we always make sure that the piece is well placed before starting work if there's a break we can't work if there's no power we can't work so we always make sure there's power. in my new al sells his products in 10 african countries and also export them to europe the tablets cost. and 4 year old. production in his country.

if we don't look after it will disappear by $250.00 many experts agreed that this is because of deforestation as well as the price paid to. the big retailers need to stop paying one euro. and truffles it is dishonorable they need to pay a little more. in the west must understand that they should buy good quality chocolate. but for x.l. emmanuelle giving up it's not optional he loves to surprise his customers with new creations and let them have a taste in its latest. meant chocolate with dried insects. i'm not to show our dried chalk leads where dried insects but i bet it's tasty and sustainable and we as consumers have the power to hold the big corporations so i

count so good a way absolute model that for me the best chocolate in the weald will always be shall collate meeting. now let's travel to the other side of the continents to talk about something totally different. music stellata shall be everyone this 1st female saxophonist making it big in the middle of the music industry wasn't easy at all but still refused to give up and has now made a name for herself take it away stella. my name is 2 last time that among those presents female sex of horns. 2 2 brought so much. to my life it's given me so much confidence and needs each become part of me and become a part of. it all began with the story the 30 year old musician says that she did

not find the saxophone but the instrument found her. first turn to toro when i had this song playing one a friend tug of mean trove of beautiful saxophone so i asked what it was that of another friend of mine see before saxophone and that's when i got the desire to really learn instrument but special instruments are hard to come by and have to be imported from outside the country when still of couldn't find any in rhonda us the uncle in the west to send him one month later she received a trumpet she wrote again in finally quite a saxophone but learning to play was another story there was a lot of techniques involved in bringing the right sound but i guess it's the question that i had within me and carried me into that kept me. sometimes even a simple thing like finding is paper becomes a major obstacle. this is one of my biggest challenges

in the music show as big as this one you can't even find the right there it is one of the most accessories presents a phony steven gets was if something gets broken the make for the main. it's very challenging to find spare parts of this town. besides this challenge teller too shabby also feels pretty says when she started to play her faced. this was a male dominated industry that i just flew into and knowing no one cared were for it so it was tough. in the beginning still i felt people did not trust his skills because she's a woman performances were cancelled or not paid correctly not a role model to look up to someone to guide me and tell me what can so these are the steps this is what you're going to face no i just kind of dove into it but even

when she struggled still or didn't give up through her music she now wants to empower other women to where jobs are for men. i believe anything that a man can do it can do my dream is that women will be embraced in the workplace and be trusted with responsibilities and they have no barriers obviously a woman was created to bring children into the world to have these may reject responsibilities but my belief is that we'll create an environment for empower women to come through without having to struggle. stella who currently works in communications at the african institute for middle medical sciences wants to reach greater heights with the music she plans to record a few songs and work full time in music 2. one of my dreams is to open a music school in this school we may need to get. developed practice to but

a show where the still young. when she started playing the sax nanobots actually knew what she was because now for me we didn't have that college we have worked with we have seen how shuns progress to meet the talent and we are so happy and excited for the gritty about having someone from something new is that it will inspire many and it'll help others to. turn out to shop in the sky is the limit. oh i get goosebumps i would time i hear this. but hey guys. hope you

enjoy this action packed show like i did you did just drop us a line on our facebook page or write to us at 77 r d w dot com it's always great to hear from you sadly we've reached the end of this episode but before you go arrows on african superhero tanzania's superstar dying one platinums with his truck. catch on the next episode of the 77 percent and so then you misha. put. more money.

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