will you be double use crime fighters are back africa, the most successful radio drama theories continues to spend. the whole episodes are available online course. you can share and discuss on v w, africa's facebook page and other social media platforms, crime fighters, tune in now. hello. and welcome to another edition of the 77 percent. this is the show for africa. you'd like you and i, wherever you're watching from your host, eddie mike, a junior so this will show will focus on education. how do you keep students and children in school? yes, what's coming up? the street debate team isn't thought africa to find out why so many students are dropping out of school will also meet a group of peanuts in northern nigeria. we're trying to bring kids back into the

classroom and we'll check out a malia, a rapper who is encouraged, and i've a young woman to pick up the my now cobit 19, have made life difficult, and education has been hit hard. the pandemic has kept children across the world out of school for several months. some have been missed a whole year of school, or the un estimates that nearly 24000000 children and youth may drop out or not have access to school this year. due to the pandemic economic impact alone. so how have schools and students been faring so far across the continent? we asked our correspondence to tell us about the state of education in the countries. zimbabwe is regarded as one of the countries with the highest liter it's raped in africa. it's 89 percent. many young once the government to address to

invest in quality education based in education crisis education is regarded as one of the above was greatest achievement, forced in 1008 the independence from great britain. this school here is a good example of the investment that the country has made in education. but now zimbabwe is regarded as one of the countries with the highest literacy rates in africa. it's 89 percent out in education is not free or public school fees are controlled. another milestone as been the gail child education. it is estimated that 52 percent of women are graduating from universities with a high level qualification. in uganda, most young people are not happy with their education system. they've criticized their policy or examining their ability to crum prieto's answers rather than the

ability to create solutions to real life problems. many employers see that they have to retrain graduates because they find an average many of them without the need. it's cues in an already small job market. now this is what many young gannons want to government to address, to invest more in quality education, which can strategically skill ugandans who can be higher able. but most importantly, those who can create jobs niger, i facing that nature cation crisis on paper. the country has free and compulsory primary education, but ceci 6 tell a different story. niger as out of school children is the highest in the world and around. that's it. the sense of the population is in the truth. for one, they are not enough public schools. so they often have to walk long distances to

get to school classrooms. i usually to pass and many of the schools i'm not going well equipped off one day in the off, almost half of the girls don't go to school at home. and the ones who was the primary school, i'm married off before they get the chance to secondary school or university. and then the insecurity periods brightening down schools and keep nothing teach us. i'm students the niger and government has been criticized for not paying enough attention on schools in the country. so as expected, different countries have their own challenges when it comes to the state of education. but some are feeling the impact even more as we had from mike lee close to clara in the area. right now, the country is facing an education crisis, according to the united nations. every 5th child that is not in school live in my area. now let's take a closer look at kind of state in north,

in the area with has the highest number of out of school children in the country. the basic education is a fundamental human right. but here in min, sheeka village in northern nigeria con state, many children are found on the farm or playing on the street instead of in the classroom. units. mussa is the co founder of the give north education campaign, which advocates basic education for all. not just the privilege few for you not helping rural kids access education is the key to progress. i feel very but about education in northern and yet i've been undiagnosed. why? because i believe that it's only education that can bring white people out of darkness. without this education, there wouldn't be a record of any achievement. this education is about one of every beloved nation. those who can afford to spend their children to private schools in the city, but that's not an option here in min chica. they are very few schools in the area

and most are in a terrible state. well, and then we'll get into one with the one in my school. there are no toilets, desk or even chairs, then the kimberly. the school is also very far from my home with him, but i think teachers are dedicated, but it's very hard to learn with nothing to help us alone was and i will god that the mobile. so the mother, the them and i want i don't, i don't want them either good or don't good them. but the lack of infrastructure isn't the only problem. it's not everyone here recognizes the value of formal education, skepticism of western style, learning, the belief that girls don't need to be educated,

and regional instability have created a difficult environment for learning to thrive. that's way units comes in. he's working to raise awareness about the importance of education beyond koranic schools, open communication with the local chiefs and village elders is a vital part of units as work. and it seems to be having an impact according to me and she was chief human. did i get down here? we took a, we used to write letters to parents and delivered them house by house to encourage the children to go to school. again. today, they take them to school voluntarily, because we now value western education. while concave, sometimes the children here even take themselves to school to enroll, but still no call. the main thing discourage in school. attendance is the distance from the to the village of when you send over the past 3 years, give north education has reached out to over 500 rural communities. but units still

wants to do more idea towards the 2030. where wants to make sure that every child from not and then to that is given. i did julie right off vacation. we want to make sure this happens in the condo state. government recently made a basic education free and compulsory and may be changed is on the horizon. i do hope it's not a may be and that changes actually on the way. my area is not the only country facing a problem of school dropouts. for africa school system has been described as one of the most an equal systems in the world. lisa, i guess, show that it has to why it has gap in the quality of education between its top and low schools. this has contributed to students dropping out of school. at an early age, our st debate takes us to the alexandria township of johannesburg to understand the

reasons behind this problem. yeah, it's michael league was to see where to mail it to john g. lead in the discussion the, the 77 percent is coming to you from alexandra township, which is located on the ragged edge of santa africa's richest square mile. this community is the opposite of that. it is marked by high unemployment poverty as well as corruption. perhaps it is the perfect location to debate south africa as education system, as well as the battle with the high dropout re in schools across the country. about 40 percent of all grade one learners will leave the schooling system before finishing grade 12. so what is behind this problem? i want to put that to a panel of experts while versed in today's discussion. and i want to begin the conversation with ry humor. we know that a drop out is not

a singular event. nobody wakes up with a burning desire to leave school. in the public, imagination, dropout is often thought of as or a dropout is often thought off as someone who is lazy or responsible and has no interest in school any way. that is not what we have found. instead, dropout is comes at the end of a long process of disengagement in which a young person is pushed of pulled out of school because of factors in their home school community environments. so internal and external factors. this is where i want to bring you in, in your view, what is you know, behind the high dropout rate installed africa? i think i mean, involve ago we can talk of any crisis without talking about the social economy conditions that you find yourself in. but we're talking about lynn as we have to choose between survival and staying in school. we're sitting today in election, one of the community that has high levels of child headed households. so these kids have to choose whether do i go to school or find new students to support me,

you know, young simply. so what i'm hearing a sound from them is that there is a relationship between the high dropout rate that we seeing in south africa with poverty. do you agree? yes. and do agree, and you will take on that. you find that in the classroom, you have maybe 70 in this, and there's one teacher. and you can be a teacher at this time to interview when you have it with 70 limis, that's why a lot of kids go to the education system in their midst. because no one has time to really focus on one minute to find out whether the bidding was one of the kidding when they come to school. and that pressure also imploded on you when you were in school and you decided to quit. what compelled you to do that, so i was actually exposed to gangs is drug abuse as well. and what is the result of that? well, there is also that might end up being with the wrong crowd and end up being addicted to drugs actually. and what happened was we did

a housebreaking which went wrong and actually into prison for 2 years for that. and while i was in prison, i actually gathered my thoughts and did some interest section whatever the reasons, policies are important. and the department of education, or even government, has implemented a number of policies over the years. the question is, why aren't they working? i want to put that question to them. i think firstly, we must just to make it clear that the department has just decided to ignore this problem. and that's why it has been getting worse and worse. so who should be holding the department accountable? i think across society we've all, if not this problem, i don't think it's just that department. there hasn't been a strong conceited campaign to see comrades, we have a problem here. how do we mitigate? all right, let's hear from landy. what's your take?

so i think i said something interesting about the society, ignoring the drop of the numerous strikes that took place within the community of an example. but the government ignored that. so the were initiated that were taken by the students to change what is happening within the public schools within alexandra. so i could say that the society didn't really ignore the whole dropout rates, but rather the dropout became a norm due to the ignorance of the government. i'm interested in zooming into learn a behavior, right. are we holding young people accountable? the very same young people who we know can be problematic in schools, disturbing costs and so forth. no one comes out of alexandra and is seen as a good person. no one, no one comes out of under the good person. so already holding a student accountable for a certain behavior, it's quite unreasonable to do that because already you have categorized him so you

can't expect something from someone of which you have already categorized so. so we've spent a good amount of time establishing what the problem is and is related to that, but i'm more interested in the solutions. do you think that you are empowered enough to come up with the solution to this very big problem? yes. as students who can have all the complaints and take them to the teachers, but it's not within us to to change them. after all, the other ones who are guiding us up to post this nation school and stuff. we rely on the teachers to be the ones who actually help us. so, expecting students to be the ones who come up with the solution is, is somehow unfair to the students who can isn't enough to just say that, you know, the, the responsibility rests on students, on parents. how do we then get to the solution? and i want to hear from you, gracious oh, i think it boils down to collaborate, collaborating together, and i think teachers,

some teachers have really did that. because if i go back to my history at school, when i was doing grade 5, i was unable to read until i was moved to another school. what it, what the teacher was available for me. she sat down with me, started from scratch, taught me the vowels and consonants. and here i am now, i was the poplar from grade 8 up on to grade 12. now a meeting with 2 students. and i think that is the perfect way to wrap up this conversation. and this debate, what we have established is that this debate is far from over. it is complex, it has many sides, but it's going to need if it from government, the n g o civil society, families to come together and try find a solution. and this is not where it ends and really has to continue. and i'm hoping that you will take part in commenting on what you've heard so far and give us your take on this topic. this was the 77 percent out in alexandra township. my

name is cecile cal, midday. she's on the thank you with the way that was a great debate. now we're also interested in what's good or bad about the education system in your country. so if you're watching this on youtube, please comments below and don't forget to subscribe. that's now go to molly for our next reports, which dukes other countries, music scene. now molly is known more for its traditional core music with musicians like k topple almost on godaddy. so what want to be that a young woman to become a rappa? to find out, let's me, molly's biggest fema rapper. i me here it was. i mean that's hard on your also known as a meet your wonderful as molly's 1st and most famous female rock. the 29 year old from by my whole book into a scene that is still very much male dominated, i still have to see that i don't know if it was wrapped in our society is something

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work is changing the image of rock in molly and inspiring women to make their voices hat. i am definitely inspired. good luck to me and all those women she supporting. now, if you've been following the 77 percent, you may remember another very talented musician that we've had on our show before. i'm talking about rachel lamps. you feel very young, but there's already big dealing uganda as long girls, right. addresses must have very close you know, when just some of the fire jet skis. oh. will you watch the no communities don't you see

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my goal is to work on my eyes and perspective. my goal is to be an amazing actress and also gets to be an international oxygen i am on restaurant. i'm one of our is like you can do whatever you want to add whatever you can experiment. and there's like, another way, everything that i do my job when i'm a big fan of warning mimi was. and when, in fact many young talent live out of the greatest africa saying, you know, i love me lugging theme in a year. i was wondering if we

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