literature invites us to see people in particular. and i can see how some time. might try to bring this. on you tube. welcome to the 7 to 7 percent show for office use if you enjoyed last week's edition you will like this even my name is michael. in this week's edition we bring you excise and reports and a very special guest. we delve into the well off. with guest elder john. we meet. an investigative journalist who exposed sex trafficking in nigeria. in the town and

took part in a who gave up a prestigious job in new york to stop their own company in nairobi. we start off in. a comedy group called t.v. . attention to the floor. of society. what is meant to inspire a youth is followed by millions online but not everyone finds them funny our correspondent had a look behind the scenes. how she hated. this set of madame the t.v. actors they are shooting it's such a skit on the country's police having. a woman reports an incident of corpses but she is a repeat $940.00 putting in influential government official.

the aim of the video is to motivate young people to participate in political process and. are pushing for positive change that would me make fun of who were they with the top office or the top and what if we are not just doing it so that we fight we're doing it so that you look at yourself and see a way you can a provably do things better for the general public time for abt them again but t.v. team includes 6 production members and up to 12 comedians the group started in 2012 and produces over 24 such their productions among victims aboard the fictional guzzling police station amongst them was a popular video. we've been called to this to times and can stay we also need that. just not want to sit down and be passive who only has one tool

to get to what ever we feel is an injustice but zimbabwe isn't an easy place to be as such a recent. the series often are tracked their oath of state authorities we've had our present office wristed charged treason organization also. treason charges offices. i think my premise is they did they see they reach at least 1000000 people commands on social media but despite their success they have to find creative means of navigating threats is about ones we saw from. very polarized population with it's very hard to define on. subject matters on the margin but.

freedom of expression is when a challenge. ending enough money is another. change the comedians are hoping to make a name for themselves internationally but we will not stop watching the bold move move to what extent one to go it all do we all do we get this straight all the challenges the f.e.c. in zimbabwe they still have the power in their enthusiasm. my t.v. wants to go all the way. today talking to nigerian satirist john but 1st let's find out. from john is an award winning satirist lawyer and novelist he grew up in come to nigeria but now lives in germany. the writer uses satire to lay open and criticize all sorts of palace truckers and i dear in society . humor is only

a means to an end. and he might self is not the goal and so. he was meant to transport people into a sort of if you like false sense of safety so the by the time. they realized oh gosh i'm probably in implicated in all of this it's like quoting a very bitter pill with. john regularly writes for newspapers and has written several books one titled becoming nigerian complications to pastors to journalist no one to spend from the writer's wit not even he himself. thanks for joining us on the 77 my pleasure you trained as a lawyer why did you leave the profession is it because. of him. it was my intention to go into a space that was more challenging mentally for me and lloyd did not hold that prospect any more i was getting bored and i thought that my skills might be put to

better use as a writer which i quite enjoyed doing and you've written several books and one of the my absolute favorites is becoming 1000 men and in the book you could to size social and political power structures and nigeria for example you targets to rich also targets to females so what your book if i want to be famous in nigeria what are the things that i need to do. well you must pander to the crowd that's at least one thing and it's interesting that you ask that question because. guides like this a very common means to to to do satire to transmit critique of social vices or of social behavior in so i quite like this medium of of the how to the guide. to doing things so how to butter how to what do i need to do how do i become the famous guy in the whole of up which up. well you

need to start a paki they'd be deeper a few. sandals in the caftan i need to borrow your friends or save ok what's with the perfume and then the mysterious it's all these importance because you need to you need to be you need to be perceived a mile away. long before you arrive i get it i get it in this book you say that you have an abusive relationship with nigeria and we put it on our facebook page we asked people what sort of relationship they had with the country and lots of people sent in comments in want to set for instance that his relationship is that no love no relationship at all and obama says that. has gone very very sad so many people agree with you but you've left nigeria and you've been away for the last 5 years some people would argue that you have no right to criticize

a country because you left what would you say to people like that. well while i understand the argument it's not valid because niger happens you are you go you know you leave relatives behind if you get if your father gets kidnapped you are certainly involved you have a long chain for example the ties you economically to the country you have social ties you also have. emotional ties to the country it does not leave you because you leave and while the bad is green passport we will always be nigerians wherever we go no one will let us forget that a lot of the things that you have spoken about talked about in nigeria i am from ghana and i can easily relate to them and it's also the same across many african countries now let's watch escape from zimbabwe on the abuse of power and government . i am the minister of impending project you think he's

a dubious character hello. you might be right but you'd likely find a country as well to count what you plan to date about the minister. as you know i have embraced social media i have no all be it facebook account i am no need to jump in on this example chat. just so that i can get more in touch with the populace at least that's what i'm telling the. me if i did meet getting in touch you could never live who all who are they to me why should i give you a limb who cares about them. or cyber security i want to know can we tend the internet on or off it will end if we can't do that give me 10 don't before you. because there are a lot of people want very loudly do all social media and we need just to talk

a little girl just a bit or even move them gold lately as. many african creatives use him or india like them is there a difference between committee and satta one employs the other but they're not the same for uses among other things weight humor irony and exaggeration while for for for comedy the goal might be laughter for satire the goal certainly is not laughter the goal is a certain level of discomfort that provokes order pushes people to be introspective for satire humor is a means to an end the not an end self so it's not entertainment and it's not meant to just titillate people it's meant to provoke people to action is that to suggest that was set out people shouldn't laugh well the kind of laughter that satire hopes

to provoke is an uncomfortable laughter a laughter where a soon as it ends there is there is deep thought that follows or at least it is comfort and engagement with the issues that arise must follow so what's their end goal of your subtle for me the subtle right seeks to move people to think to ask where they are in the various hierarchies of power and how they use or abuse power now all of that is interesting but in many places across africa space for free expression as shrunken is there a use for political satire in situations like this where press freedom is more of a level for everyone it's important that people are able to critique their government and not lose their freedom in the process. and where this happens is also the such as job to point this out because you there is no subtle way there is

no press freedom one is one needs to be able to at least half the issue is that after critiquing government one does not end up dead. it's important not just for journalists but for society at large that that these individual freedoms are not taken away but that journalists and and people like such is able to shine a light on what people in power do thank you very much l. newton john and remember his book become in nigeria and it's out you should definitely read that book respond. thanks for coming in and thanks for joining us on the 77 percent we all go on to the next report. for our next report it's also about a writer nigerian journalist border she is an investigative journalist best known for her undercover investigation into sex work and nigeria's human trafficking

mafia last year the story of her undercover work was made into the netflix film. and has given her international acclaim rule. has been writing since she was a little girl inspired by her dad she became an investigative journalist. of worry has made it her life's work to shed light on injustices in her society. by a copy of the faith by just to go through this particle ask her. how i can map out a story and see how it. aims to include those redemptive pari one hits and go for that the flesh it is what comes to my mind. going further sometimes involves her changing her identity. of all her stories none has impacted her life as strongly as her 2013 investigation into nigeria's human trafficking mafia the traffickers promise women a better future and send them on

a dangerous journey with smugglers to europe then they become sex slaves and the forced to work until they pay off a debt for the cost of the journey sometimes up to $60000.00 euros. ovoid started her own best occasion on the street for 7 months she went undercover as a sex worker. right now every way the king told me. when line for the. chain many gales of this tree. very young was. a young guy would do all it would watch old hour walk. to boy overbore herself lost close friends who disappeared and died as a result of trafficking she wanted to find out how trafficking works. unfortunately she also encountered things that she didn't expect. she was raped abused and witnessed to people being beheaded in front of her legally and.

actually that it's a depression it was the trauma that post-traumatic stress disorder . panic attacks at some points it's quite a report lead to criminal investigations but there were no consequences. young nigerian women are still lurk by the traffickers promises of a cold my friend europe they're often raped on their journey their families are threatened and this happens to spite the public knowledge about it. today leggo says red light areas seem more busy than ever. i don't really think. so much has changed i didn't really expect so seeing. very young girls on the streets.

but some nights out saying they're very young ghosts in the jazz on the streets. and it's an xmas side was but they have a lot smarter. in the ovaries most recent investigation looks into how officials and embassies on vault in the trafficking networks it's dangerous but she believes it's worth the while. palin for doing voiceless giving voice to be him. so i have no regrets i've never had any regrets i would never have ever regrets that i did desperate. story was the inspiration behind the netflix movie or the train which was released in 2020. 1 who works as inspired many more investigations into the topic of worry herself says she's not stopping any time soon. and this year tobe already over 40 has been

chosen for the freedom of speech award the award honest journalists who have done outstanding work to promote freedom of expression from all of us here at the w.b.c. coos from one strong woman to the next number or symbol is a founder of and the sports where they design gear that fits the tearing of africa kenya is famous for the promise of its long distance runners who have dominated truck events once cost of medals and broken world records but the us for skia is typically not made in kenya or even africa now lyell assemble wants to change that . menus not the layout of symbols but as we're decoding the nasa. co-founder and chief executive officer and i spoke to s. . and i was created with

a mission to bring their benefits are running back to kenya. as actually me bunmi will be made i was in the air force i got on my side an international development firm that i'm school of economics and the one thing that is really blew me away was just how people who spoke about africa you know like every case study to africa if you're talking about dictatorships africa i'm just reading about tagore africa so coming out of the back i felt a because i needed to change something make the days little much easy for my g.p. so much beautiful things happening in africa that were not for the chinese reflected in development i.d.'s and then if i ever did something it would be found in that definitely interesting development and at the same time using sports. i have to make kenya other potential we saw the famous athletes come from kenya show you can do much more than just

a few of us being or scythians or are wired to praises or to be used in wrecking how can their country benefit as a whole. and that's when i got the job with a united nations and then i moved to new york i was like so who also like joy and those of destiny seeming late here i am i'm going to change it was like i'm deceased or poignancy and they wear out like decisions at me that's the kind of just get that and you see that t.v. guy and it would make a big reason and all. you have a dream like group estimates don't get a golden handcuffs because there's just much more to life. there was an event to go to africa i think obama went for that event but he just basically said if you want to change africa you have to come to the ground you can just do it from a distance as i point x. in the film flickers looking to me so i basically left the united nations and decided to hand over everything and to just basically take

a chance i'm full of my dreams. we had been just up what does but equally there were little people who were laying guy you know making a mistake even kind of making taking these for granted some of the challenges of moving back and they're going to be used to you once you've seen if you came to be if you had to go back you know i mean had to go back and this is when you knew and that wakened to just reiterate what does make me a lot of course a sense in times of right coming but then you know the police excess the economy even the dry lead this late there isn't just a little of that but i don't you see. it's depends on what you see beauty in the eye of the beholder what these drugs do on mondays we do for another and i think as you know what you need to. now let's head west africa ivory coast is well known on the international reagan scene thanks to multi award winning. ticket.

trying to succeed him like all the kinston gang. but it's not easy to find in produce this and promote. the kingston gang starr band has been on the ivory coast's reggae seem since 2002 reggae is popular but this galaxy of stars does not include many women i know stu you want to change that . they were women before they may have had a hard time showing themselves that they may have had a hard time revealing what within their hot but today women say what they want. despite their commitment and popularity reggae musicians struggle to survive off their music for a concert the kingston gang star sometimes paid as little as $45.00 euros per member. so recording an album is a big dream depending on the artist's ambitions this kind cost 3000 to 10000 year

old. also keeping one's voice is not a given according to reggae man. music to float egos it's more music to see what's wrong to put your finger why it hurts was a sin from that angle we have a little bit on the side of all those who have them in all and put away. the kingston gang starr band has been working on the album for 4 years now they are entirely self i know it writing the songs gathering the musicians booking the studios. but i would. i like to see young people wanting to settle into a kind of. you that doesn't exist they mustn't get to drama. or has been a musical for. been a music of people who make with with the half. and some

people in the reggae scene have made it both nationally and internationally and become icons undoubtedly the reggae star of the ivory coast is. he started his career in 1901 and today he has been awarded gold discs and is known for his committed songs even on other continents. but here is a good thing you have to keep hope this new reason someone committed. you can have a hit and ovarian or french radio stations will be forced to play it because the hit is good because everyone to sing in it it can happen i really think it's not over yet which is. some musicians wish to return to the essential rastafari and face the. association that was launched to bring the ivory coast's

rust does together. feria nissim worships god or jar and strives for political consciousness and unity amongst africans it is one of the roots of reggae music. it allows me to convey my message to tell truth. to the words that. gives me strength. it's one thing that all reggae artists have in common they hope that reggae can continue to shine. i hope this show hostile ange to you to speak out against else in your country when i it's through music. so get in touch and don't forget to subscribe to a brand new instagram tonneau my name is michael and i leave you in a good company off sick and called and soprano and joy and until next

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