in the change africa mega. what's in store with what i have for their future. d, w dot com, we can megacity multi media insight center. me hello and welcome to a new addition of the 77 per cent. my name is la show and i'm thrilled to have your company today. here's what's coming up and the next 30 minutes we're talking about depends amick within a pen to police brutality in africa. we're to be up and coming influencers h town kid phrase from the room. a neighborhood of nairobi and prima ballerina in lagos carries us off into the magical world of performing our

once. the 1st thing that comes to your mind when you see a police officer across africa, there have been many reports of the police abusing citizens for no apparent reason . in south africa, the victims of police brutality are now demanding change the el dorado park and soto outside johannesburg. police fire rubber bullets and protesting youths. enraged at a police officer who shot a 16 year old in the head and chest, nina, sun, life, and the messenger family. then they go. we don't feel safe. our review was gave the victim. nathaniel julius was unarmed and living with down syndrome. neighbors say he was shot because he did not

respond to offices questions. now the community demands answers from the authorities. a provincial official arrives and finds a devastated mother thing to where you will. it was this way. they get the way when they did the phase body. know what to do to this we did they nathaniel julius is death comes as police face allegations of brutality throughout the country with 300 to 500 people killed by police bullets every year. many south africans ask themselves if law enforcement still serves to protect the week before the shocking death of julius we visited the el dorado park police

station, an establishment at the heart of a drug and gang ridden neighbourhood. many residents here believe the police is corrupt and in cahoots with dealers, constable kinsey, and could see our rookies who wished to change that perception. to be honest, i don't feel good when i you know all the stuff about our colleagues and stuff. i was down myself, i'll stay the bus and they might enough and it was in the community, made the thing about the young constables in el dorado park wage. a daily war on drugs today. constable could see it, and kinsey have taken illegal drug labs apart and arrested a number of st. taylor's yards. i'm not seeing that the police is actually doing something against the gangsters as well

received. what i got to do with who's keeping the communities more vital to stop in search. everyone is team. top is such everyone. joe knows that a 2019 report by corruption watch suggests, but least of the most corrupt public servants with abusive power and bribery being writing lawyer, vic, a stale in johannesburg, wants to see more responsible police officers in charge. he represents victims of police brutality and says the trend is systemic and has been institutionalized from the top. i think the problem with the police is that they are not sufficiently trained. they do not have proper leadership. the head of the police have stolen the scots, keep them donna, which is a shoot kick and bunch have they, they are the one to myself that i think they can do as and what the fees,

without any call back in elder or the park. the shooting has stopped by the residents are still angry. if nothing changes, they say the police station will be burned down. they demand unaccountable police that protects and serve the people. the. it's not just in south africa were called for justice and an ends to police brutality are getting louder. we ask people across the continent, how they feel about their relationship with the police in their country. when everyone sees, for least here in uganda, what comes their mind? one is the impunity 2 is 3 iris with no explanation because that's what police has painted themselves as if really bad. was it avoided like bad people that should

actually give you to go, you know, avoid that because he wants to kill. so it's actually, it's also not a bit. it's also because we is young people. we are fearful of those were supposed to be protecting in democratic society, received police officers as opposed to protecting the citizens. but in our kids is the repairs. they're the ones what are meeting as the police officer, they have to sort of go back to school and be told how to handle public. well, you heard it lovejoy from zimbabwe, suggested that educating police officers could help tackling of this pan african problem. we also want to shift our focus away from the problem itself and instead find solutions. that's why we took our st debates to kenya's capital, nairobi. i colleague kim,

i met up with victims and activists to discuss what needs to be done to improve the relationship between law enforcement officers and citizens. the, the 77 percent has been to italy. we've been to germany and now we're back in the capital city of kenya, nairobi. and it's in this country that in march a curfew was put in place of a cobra prevention measure. and it's reported by the human rights watch that in the 1st 10 days of that curfew, 6 people died at the hands of police officers. and so today we are asking who do you tend to when you need protection from the police? and as you can see, there are no uniformed police officers here. we did send them an invitation, literally count of their office, but they didn't make it, but the show must go on. and so i'd like to begin this conversation with perpetual karaoke. she's actually from the co lead social justice center. but beyond that,

you know, this idea of police brutality, it's not just abstract to you. it's affected your family in a very personal way. could you please tell us about that? in 2015, i lost my brother through the extra judicial execution. so then i called in follow up the case because we had no idea or this set your whole of reporting. but you can you tell us how your brother came to even be in contact with the police in the 1st place. so from this story we were told by the police is that he will, he went to his friends house, who was, i wanted gay. and the guy got out and locked him from outside and that's when the police came and executive him and they use a lindsey, it wasn't, there was no to mention of you under arrest. we are here for you because of such and such. no, no, no, no. so give us coupon starting next week from amnesty international. does this

sound like some of the reports you're putting in place? because, you know, when you talk about the numbers, it's easy to forget that this human beings behind them. what is the situation currently if based on your own assessment on police brutality? well, this sounds quite familiar. tragically, this happens, especially in poor areas where the fight against crime is a fight against the youth or that area. just like what happens in the u. s. in black neighborhoods where the police decides that the policing in this area is going to be punitive. and we have very many cases during this period. they've been pretty kisses. 20 killings of young people. wow. anything a 13 year old boy that's. that's crazy. we're talking for much because that's when we had our 1st case here in can 20 people 20 people. okay. i want to speak to y band, who is a musician and a blogger, and a resident of these low income areas. mother. have you been in

a situation where you felt the police were being violent towards you? exactly exact. i've been in that situation several least not once or twice. i can't count for one reason, just my physical appearance. just having dreadlocks makes me criminal. yeah. so that has, has, has made me come to the police so many times so much that i've become more adjusted to bags, you know, like i know really how i will be able to respond to a policeman also based on how he approaches me. yeah. so let's come to mr. dungeon we're hearing already some very staggering stories. so what you must be getting in your office must be out of this world. how many cases do you get to an average of people complaining about police behavior? begin much. ready cause of june, we received a 500 complaints and but then i want to see that those are not. but if killings funds, those lead from i thought and see if there is of course, but if killings,

but the last part is we've got docked. so how many has i, how many convictions has i managed to get in 6 convictions on life sentences and hang and hanging, but i don't want you to look at that, but to stick, come on. i knew that one must do that. we understand that the cases take really long and judicial service also has its problem. but if you're saying 500 complains in a span of a couple of months and 6 convictions since a body was formed, possible for all the companies that you get to not adopt in court. because we see that we look at what if we didn't know him, i did what is not we didn't know him. i did. we delegate that as possible with the sector or any visuals that handled was my thought. all right, so thank you so much. i definitely understand that, but byron, i have to come to you because we obviously don't have a police officer here, but you're the closest person. we have to one. what goes through the mind of

a police officer when they and that sort of situation, you know, what would lead a police officer to draw his gun and kill another person coming from a community or very high liability organization or the special forces? i know for certain that when life is supposed to be taken, the division is very, very critical. and so life as opposed to 2nd is that which is been taught about so many times. and we set up so many times in terms of decision making on the part of the operators. so the judgement around the practice of security and or the to be, but it's a key to top. it's got to be re, thoughts on the functions that of in times leave in the training or the professional, even debrief or the particular operators has got to be refined to the last minute detail of that operation. so my solution would be that the police being the big brother here, i'll go to operate of the hot distal when it comes to the way the dress themselves do insecurities and how they will still apply themselves to the provision of the key to service. okay, perpetual very quickly. we open with you,

i'd like to hear your final thoughts and also what you think can be done to bridge the gap between citizens and the police. most of these police allegedly, politically, they don't wear uniform, they don't identify themselves. we don't know who they are to because sometimes we go to the police station and report a case and they'll say, come later. so my show and i solution use this sort of political form to be implemented everywhere in this country. all see to this of this country and we have to be treated with dignity. we do deserve to be treated with dignity. i can't think of a better place to wrap up this conversation. thank you so much to my panel who've been so gracious to stand with me as a sun goes down. i think what we can take away is that the police officers being asked that their slogan, commission court to service to all needs to be to all. and from the community

service from all that, we also have a responsibility claim this. thank you for watching the big thank you to either send everybody who took part in the street debates and i roby. and if you want to watch a longer version of this debate, then visit our youtube channel and be sure to subscribe. were saying in nairobi in the room, a neighborhood to be precise. and there we meet a group of talented kids on their way to becoming social media celebrities. after watching just a few of their priority videos and remakes, i totally get why they are so popular. and why thousands of fam follow them on instagram. the

trust props a little backyard camera and action. that's all you need to become. and instagram star, these are the h town kid from the room, a neighborhood of nairobi, and they have big dreams on the big if there was no comment on the kids or the stars. but rosemont is a woman behind the instagram account? she's a local ice cream vendor and taught itself to shoot and edit videos. about a year ago, she started making videos with the neighborhood kids growing up. i wanted some things i wanted to do, but i never became so that's a i'm trying to make. yeah. parody

music, video and social commentary. nothing's too big for these kids today. they're shooting their version of be on, says music trailer black is king. it's an entire day of shooting, featuring multiple sets and costume changes. and the crew needs to pay attention to thousands of tiny details. sometimes i look at the phone and see what that looks like. then i go and get neil's, the mommy that tells me what to do. like now, she's told me to get the bicycle. so now this bike is like a horse, come our me and i got the way if we did so that we do good. that's what those are very big to the. but for the kids is about more than acting. the neighborhood doesn't have many

youth clubs or other activities on the when i come here, i'm not lazy and we have each other a lot. and i like the group because there are lots of gifts here and i'm not on my own. and i think if one of us makes it, will all become serious in our who would that lots of bad things going on. there's lots of biases that they can fall prey to out there on the street. it's dangerous. we started this group to at least keep the kids safe and busy. i'm out. yeah, that's not what trending topics haven't just hone the kids why skills and creativity . they've also been tackling global issues like the black lives matter movement and the corona virus pandemic. one step please. someone to much legal saw, you know,

they do the another group of young sir is hoping to make it big one day in show is, is a ballet job in the lagos, nigeria? now, admittedly, ballet is not very popular in many parts of africa. in fact, when i was growing up in terms of me, i didn't know anyone who was doing bullet, but the dancers in the area are passionate about what they do. and they hope to inspire others with their elegant moves. when you think of falling, those might not be the 1st place that springs to mind. but for me to when i, when it dancing bodily is over at form of not only exercising, but also self expression. when they come to then i still get

everything behind just does make me feel copy a makes it this person. i feel how i feel. i forget about the class now in a 2 year old or nami, they grew up in the neighborhood of ojo, which is maybe social problems on mommy. this tips up to the bar. she forget what's going on around. she's part of the 12 students who train in this makeshift studio twice a week and some of them as young own i guess we'll be doing dinah jala has been teaching students like allow me to for free since 2017. keeping them focused on achieving been both in the discipline of family,

but those goals may not only be related to dancing. some of them i'm going to become professional. don't that we know that because you don't come in the training to get you can be applied in any of your life. daniel is assist port professional dancer who uses the streets of audio to showcase the talents of his students. some people are clearly delighted to get official of us are perhaps not open minded enough to appreciate the hard work that he's students have to put in that we just need to make sure they feel that it is in the central valley up and lower arrow be seen where it's not like allow me to is a hard worker, not just when it comes to hunting hub allays kills. but also at the sewing shop wishes employed even behind the sewing machine on ami it keeps practicing by lee.

i don't care what people reaction because i'm the my thing, i'm me forget about everybody behind i just because i know what i want for my family is a way for me to cope with whatever life throws at her at the end of the day. she always has hardball sleepers and half their little dances. you may be familiar with the full mile. yeah. the country in the horn of africa. but have you heard of somali land? well, it's a self declared state bordering for malia. it has its own government, but internationally as seen as part of from our yeah. we met asthma had met her parents are from some island and although she didn't grow up there, she took a bold step to discover her roots. me. my name is hannah smith. i was born and raised in canada.

before i left canada, canada was the place to be. and the 1st time we traveled was to africa when i was 7. and i remember my mom telling me that we were going to go to africa and i was terrified cuz all i had was the idea of what i saw on the world vision traveling, changed my mind about that issue because to be service. and i told my parents, i wanted to get married and moved to her case to be with my husband now. and they are really shocked because they have no connections to some of the land. all i, when i was there everything was just, i was really reliant on my husband to show me around to take me everywhere to communicate for me. so that was really, really difficult. the biggest thing was

a language barrier being a mom, or even just being pregnant was the 1st thing that got me thinking about nachos can care. after i gave birth to my son. he developed the mom when he was about 6 months old. so i started just experimenting with like coconut oil and random natural things that i could put on him that could feel the exit and nothing was working. and then i went online and i read about shape or being really good for eczema. so that was the 1st time i tried it and it really worked. so i would bring it with me from canada to how to get. so after i bring it here, we'd run out of it and i go looking for in the city and it was really hard to find . so me and my husband are like, hey, why fi, it's in the city i. when i 1st introduce, say, butter 2 people and i realized that the trust and believe in any part that has like

a white person's face on it. once i started explaining the benefits, they seemed a lot more open to it. and actually a lot of women that have beliefs their skin or realizing how harmful it is to them or the damage that it's done to their fees. we're very curious about whether she better could help them. so they really like the fact that it will erase the damage, but it can help heal my advice to young people. and i want to move back to the continent would be to be very open minded and humble yourself to new opportunities to learn and grow. what an inspiring story and if you're an african live in abroad and you're planning to move back to the continent to pursue opportunities, we'd like to hear your story. send us an e mail to 77, s e w dot com,

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