in the i change the africa mega. what's in store with here? what do i have for their future? e, w dot com for can megacity, multi media insight cancer. the me hello and welcome to another edition of the 77 percent. this is the show for africa youth like you and i wherever you're watching from your host, eddie mike, a junior so this we sure will focus on education. how do you keep students and children in school? yes, what's coming up? st debate team is in south africa to find out why so many students are dropping out of school. will also meet a group of campaign at the northern lights area. we're trying to bring kids back

into the classroom. and we'll check out a molly on a robot who is encouraged, and i've a young woman to pick up the my now cobit 19 has 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 plan that makes, he cannot make impact alone. so how have schools have 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 is raised in africa. it's 8 and 9 percent. many young. once the government to address

to invest in quality education. now, is there a facing that nature cation crisis? education is regarded as one of the above was greatest achievement, post 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 rate in africa. it's 8 and 9 percent out in education is not free or public school fees control. another milestone has been the girl 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 criticize 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 immediate 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. nigeria facing that nature cation crisis. on paper, the country has free and compulsory primary education, but ceci 6 and a different story. now get out of school. children is the highest in the world and around. that's it. the sense of the population is in the tree. for one, they are not enough public schools. students often have to walk long distances to

get to school classrooms. i usually to pass and many of the schools i'm not even when a quick one been in the off, almost half of the girls don't go to school at home and the ones who go to the primary school, i'm married up before they get the chance to secondary school or university and then the insecurity periods brightening food and he's not being teach us to then 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 my area,

which has the highest number of out of school children in the country. the basic education is a fundamental human right? but here in min chica village in northern nigeria is 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 units, helping rural kids. access education is the key to progress. i feel very bad about education in northern and yet i've been on dallas just why? because i believe that it's only education that can bring quite people out of darkness without this indication. that wouldn't be a real quick to 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 well, no one would want bacon in my school. there are no toilets, desk or even chairs. then the kingery school is also very far from my home. with the on the wall. i think teachers are dedicated, but it's very hard to land with nothing to help us alone was and i will got that the mobile though the mother the on the mobile. i don't, i don't was and i don't good them. but the lack of infrastructure isn't the only problem. not everyone here recognizes the value or 4 major cation 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 that work. and it seems to be having an impact, according to me, and she was chief in that. yeah. and as you 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. 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. when you send over the past 3 years, give north education has reached out to over 500 rural communities. but eunice

still wants to do more idea towards the advent. who wants to make sure that every child from northern enter that is given? i did julie rachel verification was to make sure this happens in the condo state. government recently made 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 the problem of school dropouts, but africa school system has been described as one of the most an equal systems in the world. the latest figures show that it has to why it has gap in the quality of education between its top on law schools. this has contributed to students dropping out of school at an early age. are st debates, takes us to the alexandria township of johanna, back to understand the reasons behind this problem. yeah,

michael league was to see where to made a 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 sanson, africa's richest square mile. this community is the opposite of that. it is mod by high unemployment poverty, as well as corruption. perhaps it is the perfect location to debate south africa as education system, as well as it's 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 well 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 offered thought of as someone who is lazy or irresponsible and has no interest in school anyway. 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 or pulled out of school because of factors in their home school or 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 in south africa? i think i mean, involve ago, we can talk of any crisis without talking about the socio economy conditions of the final. so in, but we're talking about lynn as we have to choose between survival and staying in school. we're sitting today in alex and one of the community that has high level of child headed households. so these kids have to choose whether do i go to school or

find new sustenance or support my, you know, younger siblings. so what i'm hearing a sound from emma 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 you agree and you will take on that? please define that in the classroom. you have maybe sitting till in this and there's one teacher and you can be a teacher that is trying to intervene when you're faced with 70 limits. that's why a lot of kids go to the education system and then missed. because no one has time to really focus on random to find out whether the big thing was, what they kidding when they come to school and talk to that pressure also imploded on you when you were in school and you decided to quit. what compelled you to do that, so it's 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 i actually went to prison for 2 years for that . and while i was in prison, i actually get my thoughts and did some interest fiction, 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 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 that hasn't been a strong conceited campaign to see accommodates. we have a problem here. how to 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 off the numerous strikes that took place within the community and exactly, but the government ignored that. so the were initiative 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 texts 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 such behavior, it's quite unreasonable to do that because already you have categorized them 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. ok, after all the other ones who are guiding us of 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 when i hear from you, gracious oh, i think it boils down to collaborate, collaborating together, and i think teacher,

some teachers have really didn't that because if i go back to my history at school, when i was doing great 5, i was unable to read until i was moved to another school. what it was, the teacher was available for me. she sat down with me better from scratch, taught me the vowels and consonants. and here i am now. i was the top letter from grade 8 up until 12. now a 1000000 visit to student, 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 effort 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 the cecilia med date. she's on the thank you was 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. let's now go to molly for our next reports, which are the countries music scene. now molly is known mall for its traditional core music with musicians likes at least k topple, almost on, got a. so what want to be that a young woman to become a rappa to find out let's me molly's biggest fema rappa. i mean you're a wall. i mean that's hard on. you are also known as molly's 1st and most famous female rock up the 29 year old from my book into it. that is still very much male dominated by till monday because, you know,

they've done up wrap and our society is something that is not for children who have a good education. because he rapids, you know, something that is not respected up onto coffee. and when you're a woman, even worse coffee and from last down coffee, i'll stick and woman is not easily accepted. i mean own family, but mother seen him married and tried to pressure her into ending her use the car. yeah. would they be? i would highly one, but at some point i couldn't hide anymore funny. there was so many things you can do this. you call it, like you said, i thought it wasn't compatible with the auto life. i wanted to have it deducted. that's why i left, especially when nobody due to me started here korea in 2010. she wants to make songs about issues. people can relate to live a day because it was only coming up. when i wrap, i tried to talk about all the difficulties i went through and about all the things in my society that influenced me. the problems lately, when i speak about children's rights of violence against women, for example,

i speak about those molly and realities around me, which are often also african reality to 40 do need to keep up with that album coming up soon. i mean one louis building an international fellow, and now she wants to encourage young women to take control of the mike once a year. i mean organizes the festival luma lee, d rappers. the program includes concepts where shops and a competition for female hippopotamus. well i felt that there busing, i remember 2 years ago they weren't at this level now i've been performing live and it's very encouraging. i feel motivated. i'm really happy to see those tonight. what's my, what's up 18 year

old olivia was a when off last year, the competition. olivia never went to school or learn to read or write to her. when this competition was a huge break, the smoke almost at 1st my parents didn't agree on me, but when they saw that i was fighting for the life of music they started to understand. with this festival, we can get training on experience and meet people. it's very helpful not you might have fallen off, but i think gentlemen, so these girls, a, me, is a role model. and rob is a whale build in self confidence. what's more, it's a way of express and younger, frustrations and joyce in life, me, finish when fat things happen in my life. i go home, i play loud music and i run about 30 minutes. i'm happy again. i forget about all the problems in the world really. unfortunately,

i'm the one call herself an activist by her 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 and she's still very young, but is already big dealing uganda. as long girls right address in my top, very close down child playing when just some of the firemen. oh, william will be no community. don't you see

my boy. oh boy. oh oh, nice. no, let me see you. she had a quiz. this near lou as a boy

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my goal is to work on my and perspective. my goal is to be an amazing actress and also gets to be an international access is i still be on the line. i'm one of our key is like you can do whatever you want to add whatever you can experiment. and as i said, we're actually everything that i do myself when i'm a big one many what and when in fact, many tally like one of the largest here and say, you know, i love me lugging senior year. i am good logic logic around i need to, i mean there's

a manager in the library and the magazine when everyone is live, she and she then can you find that if you wish, and whereby a daughter or son one to do tv, what to do? read, you wanted to see it that wants to get into drama. let's talk on the parent just once the kid to be a lawyer or adult done. so i just once she to be able to reach a place where like the parents can be able to embrace that kid as they come through instead of them having to dream for decades what she wants to do.

i also dream of a place where we can all be who or what we want to be as always, we want to hear from you. so head of us all social media pages and tell us about your hopes and ambitions. and you should definitely check out our brand new instagram page. it's dw underscore 77 percent. you can also send an email to 77, a, d, w dot com. i hope you enjoy the show, but it's time to wrap up. we'll leave you with some music from me. you will with head track, dumbass. i, eddie micah junior. units 5 the one the most. why didn't you get

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