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i'll union fellows how they want to build that by wall. uganda. young people struggle. you don't want the expression on line and and joining class teaching gum again. girl physical self defense. the less thought of in sierra leone, the country civil war and 2 decades ago by the scars remain. however, live moscow long and young and old. want to leave that dark chapter behind. sometimes though progress means we visited the past and learning from the mistakes . let's remind ourselves of the civil war and why memories of bit still, aunt sarah unions, child soldiers, diamonds, and the breakdown of an entire society. this is what characterize sierra leone 11 years civil war. though it ended 20 years ago,

scars of the bloody conflict continue to shape the society in sierra leone to this day. the war started in 1991. when the rebel group revolutionary united front form to overthrow government that was perceived as weak, corrupt, and incapable of running the country. over 10000 children, some as young as 5 years were recruited into honored rape abductions, amputation killings, and the destruction of towns and villages. wrapped in the rebels. fine and there to the teeth, through the sale of so called blood or conflict. diamonds. with the help of the barrier them president charles taylor, demons were smothered abroad and later sold worldwide. by the time the war ended in 2002, up 270000 people had died. and over 2000000 were displaced. an entire generation of youth had been separated from their families. they received

little or no education at all, and carry the scars of the war. in the aftermath of the war, sierra leone set up the truth and reconciliation commission for survivors to tell this stories and prevent any future conflict. sierra leonean live in peace today. many say that the underlying cause of the war, such as corruption, poverty, and unemployment remain unresolved to this day. the beautiful thing, though, is that cyril unions have now lived in peace for 20 years and counting. and there is hope that peace will prevail to move forward and to live a meaningful life. many vocal use in the country identifying what's wrong with the our society and are seeking change either kamani, i'm the 77 percent. the base team caught up with some young civil unions in the capital free town. now the want, some of the accounts of the war may be upset in the,

in the hello and welcome to the 77 percent. the show for africa you this week we are in the west african country of early on. and 20 years ago this. yeah, i mean, 11 year brutal civil war came to an end. unfortunately, some of the people who participated in that will lost their loved ones and even lost some of their limbs. what children, 20 years on those children now make up part of the 77 percent and we want to find out from them. what does the world look like for them? so we'll begin with more. but here tell of you was what you went through. i was 30 see now, so if it is when to rebel out fact in our town ship. and we went through the voice for 3 months, then down north into it'll, my bill asked me to go outside and get some fruits. throw on my way, graham. i stepped him out on the land mines. so much trellis dropped my leg here. sure. i wasn't a voice for 3 good days. was so, i mean that's really,

really tough. how do you survive in the bush for 3 days with an amputated leg, which was really tough for me because i was calling you to my hands and my knees. it's about 3 would days. i'm really, really sorry to hear about that. unfortunately it's more terrible news and we're just going to come to you for a 2nd fantasy with because what they're describing is not alien to you even having been an i. but also a teenager that time, nor was it wasn't, it was and actually, and i for the fact that i think it was something to me to 8 i was a child. and then to rebuild attacked in kabbalah. we went into the brochure darla for like 5 days, i think i get to my mother. and then my mother was like, you have to go back and get medication. and, and i went there and i saw or a family friend. and i went there and i was no way to go back to my mother and he was like, you're say for me, the kids you know, spend

a night and that was the night that i bought for a buy him not once or twice 3 times i think and i am, i was there helpless. i could you nothing about it. okay. well, thank you for sharing beds again. yes. so let's come to ishmael. please explain to us what happened with you and how you found yourself to be here today alive and well. so when i was about 12 years old, the war came into my life. i started running for mitchell. by the time i was 13, i've been recruited to fight i in the government army. and i fought for nearly 3 years. i lost everything my, my home, my aspirations, long and short of it, i was able to survive the war didn't. and i was adopted in a family in the united states where i left our but i carried the burden of the war were to me because i felt guilt for having survived. and by the way ish morales case and everybody else we've heard from to day. their case is their cases are one

of tens of it's estimated that around $10000.00 children participated in that war. and the children were talking about a probably not older than the ones who are playing football here. so that gives us a visual but also very difficult to imagine. m mariam. so you were one when the war ended, but your parents obviously who raised you and who gave birth to you were very much, but over this crisis, is this something that you discuss at home openly? has it affected how you were raised it as that affected a lots of family members that i know directly and what, what we experienced is the trauma, the trauma vol. so you would, you would experience that a lot of family members, we are not able to get jobs. they're not able to earn learn skills because the up for mitzi, v is, we are destroyed by the war. let me invite john to this conversation. what do you think is the biggest challenge that the biggest thing that people are still carrying with them from the war world biggers permission to have a conversation at the community level, most of the present young generation did not experience the war. and for those who

experienced awarded or have the space to have that dialogue. so i think part of our challenge as emission is having an ongoing conversation about what went wrong. okay . so let me come back her to fantasy here because we're hearing that on the one hand, not only to the opportunities and the spaces to speak openly. they don't exist, but not speaking about it creates more trauma even for the generations after the fact. whig one thing we're good at and surly on is we move too fast and we pretend like what happened yesterday during happen. and as i, you have people like me and a lot of the people that are bottling up, there is a time i become like, saw a paranoia like any sounds good. i, i was just like, i went in to like, i was just black out here ish. my, let me come to you, did you get a chance to get sort of mental health care? after the facts? yes, i did have

a little bit of mental psychosocial therapy as they used to call it right after the war. i was not the case for a lot of people. yeah. now what i, what i also want to really address is the fact that if you look at our society serial you, now a lot of us are broken. can you give me some of those examples? what think about social personal spaces, the way people view women, the way people view relationships. all of those things had dis, functionalities had existed during the war. and some of the people who inherited that went on to be parents and raise children. they don't know how to pass on those things to them here. i want to hear from mariam. if the education system is also catering to this, you know, as somebody who says you're facing 2nd generational trauma is, is something that you're taught to school. are you addressing this in your own sort of youth circle as mental health issues right now lots of people, even youths as my age do, frowned around mental health discussions, trauma i'm depression, anxiety, they don't want to talk about it. and even i have spoken to some of my colleagues

were study medicine in civilian college of medicine. don't tell you that i don't want to studies and psychology or be a psychiatric because everybody my company to feel, i'm a mad person, i'm working with mad people. so let me ask a question that, you know, it might even sound colors to ask it, but i need to have sierra leonean really learned from the wor, no, no, no, no, no, thank you. same, everybody says no. everyone is are, you know why? because we pretend like it didn't happen, nobody talk about it, not in school, not in college, not in houses in there. it didn't happen. mariam, you? one of the people who said very emphatically, no, we haven't learn all the situations around the wall. all the effects, all the things that lead to the war i still present. i still have corruption, his hair, utah unemployment, his hair mom at these hair and even the fact that we don't talk about it makes it more scary. because if we don't talk about these, how do we want to move past it?

so john, how do we move forward from a situation like this? or what we mood is a constructive engagement of young people. let's try to include in the curriculum of schools, the history of the war less drive, but not part of the curriculum. it's, oh my goodness, it's not all the schools. let's have that conversation in the schools at a university so that people go to understand what went wrong. all right? if i could add something to that, there is an adage, mr. you, if you know not was, are you comments? you know, will not with, are you to go? if you don't know where you're coming from, you will not know where you going. let know where we've been, what, what's there? what's behind us, lou reed now, and then we'll know how to go forward. if not, we'll go back to that. yeah, i think that's a fantastic place to end. it's very rare that on the street debate, we dwell on the path, but it is something that has come out very,

very clearly to day. is that in some instances, in order to move forward, as fantasy said very clearly, you sometimes have to look back. thank you for watching. sometimes to move forward, we have to look back and learn from what went wrong to not to repeat the mistakes of the past. now, if you loved that he beat as much as i did, you can watch the longer version on our 77 percent youtube channel. don't forget to share your thoughts with us in the process. now, as we have just established lenin from the past increased the desired future is very essential. so we asked you all on facebook, what can the youth do to build the future they want? i'll let her take the 1st comment from fall armstrong from do, i'll a camera and you say if we successfully kill corruption, then all the was would eventually stop on our continent. that's

a good one there. then the current job will go patrick, in kabbalah, which is in the democratic republic of congo. you see constitutional reforms, an independent competence, judicial systems void of corruption. well stop this menace. and then a final comment from one get room go. where from peak of bali in kenya, you say, one of the solutions will be for those countries to address the history that way. people are enlightened of the dangers a war. hence avoiding a repetition of that doc part of history. thus just their beautiful well said, all of you, the solutions to africa, the problems lie within all of us. together, we can help create the future we deserve. but that includes being able to speak your mind and express yourself without fear of retribution. one, uganda, a woman is trying to achieve just that was bel camire strives for freedom of

expression. on the digital front. uganda, young people are particularly affected by internet shutdowns and censorship, about the be about to change. if camire gets her way, ah, decided to punch the rebounding social media and accept don't, is currently a dictate says perfect tool against the people on the continent. it's due for an upcoming side of young people. what bracing themselves, they can no longer keep quiet. so you want to hold them. you want shut them up. you shut the medium. they're using and with your social media. my name is rose bell. good day. i am from uganda, and i am a writer and an activist. i am an editor of law firm called african feminism,

where i work with african the young feminist to tell their story and their resistance to different systems. i, their realities of african women and girls is still appalling in so many different ways that we are still far away from finding our ways to agenda equal communities on this continent. the internet has help us to break barriers in terms of in long wage borders. the internet helps us to expand our understanding of the world by exposing less than you knowledge and connecting us to people who know different things or experience lead to reality. and differently.

that last 30 years of the continent have been terrible for us. and in feel, when you look around leaders who inspires you, it's very difficult to, for an african to point a person in power who is driving a country, say, i'm inspired by this person because it's we, we've survived dictatorships, men who are interested in being big mans providing everybody is switching off the internet when they want, you know, killing whoever is opposing them. saying you have no right to protest, an air your grievances as a nation with just went through a very violent alexson. and the people are being killed or on the streets in compiler. i'm in and having a really i think that the she been living in a dictatorship, it's gonna be exhausting, is literally,

if you're walk or it's not just about you, but as a connective. so a nation building is very important, but the young people have to be at the front of nation building. they have to be respected. we have to respect a de, rusty, gender de rusty's, for minorities. what must respect everybody on this continent? ah, you know, up, i agree. africa is the most youthful continent. so young people must be at the center of nation building. we have to demand that kind of leadership in the future . we want. that means empowering ourselves for the fight ahead. talking about empowerment and fighting lead, visit the gambia to meet our girls abuse, teen reporter lena gwinn, yuba. she takes us to her class where she another girls, lynn, self defense, the sessions in the gym, give them the tools and confidence to deal with mental, verbal and physical abuse. watch out for those ones though.

oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. well, once again, women and girls can be many forms. one of them is physical violence. my name is linda e when you and i want to tell you about the, for dictating the gambia that health gulf and woman to be prepared for that. let's go see where the, the pound for ga, streaming is all about. it was cited in february 2020 and since then over 200 women have benefited these. the cameras, the national co, denita for safe hunts for girls. all the necessary and poem and to self defense. apart from that, she's a dedicated community and national human rights activists. walk the founding, this faith in this, this woman, the part of respond to violence is and provide tools for a range of mental, verbal and physical responses with formal

why the need for thought defense for women were unfilled, defense are fifths of tooth am given to women. and children that begin to beacon all this used to be if could be escalade situations, saw it's like having a hand bag full of tools. our men, 2nd in the gambia. yes. the are we see and hear reports about m women or children being apart from a daily basis. so yes, definitely remember for the attend again. so who are this violators who do you think of a liter? most of the attack us or the news that we hear the i'm and so we use why we give women the set of tools to be able to use when they, in a situation, but not power of the normal sort of violence of admin. they're more powerful than the victim or the woman they attack and something as simple as being able to set the bound to say no, don't follow me. well, i don't like the way that you're touching this is a simple, but they're very powerful and they can really save your life. many a woman,

i'm going to ask you to jeremy. it's one of them she 14 years or ask you to set up that for the student into line of defense assets, or has anyone ever directed violence that you? yes one. i was one attacked by mine. he tried to, i had asked me, but i use my voice and shouted. so people came to help me. so what is the secret weapon to avoid violence? the secret of funds to set boundaries for yourselves? i think. yeah. the thing gets, this amended to choose how to respond. when confronted by a violence, i am limit, you go, you forgot of mute in the gambia done to me and i'm go play violence. very well said, i was a hope you learn something from the self defense class because who knows, it may come in handy about next stop goma in the democratic republic of congo. go

marble. it is wanda, and the city is no stranger to conflict. but it is also the home town of slum artist been come when to come on to is ready to show as a town whose residence have learned to live with a constant threat of war. as well as the threat of an active volcano. jumble hello . let's see here. my name is ben. come in today, and it's a great honor to welcome you to my sister goma, located between the majestic mount and go and li, keeble deposits. we're lucky situated on the border to rhonda gama is the gateway to ethan democratic republic. of quota surrounded by the regions conflict. the city attracts both young and old as a place to trade study and for those displaced by will the funding home. first up, the poet and political activists then come little shows us come of unique motor transport. think of what, what you see here is that you could do a symbol of the city to lafayette food. and i'm as to where the brewery got up,

the courage of the people of goma who wake up every morning to wake, to look for food, but also to continue to dream. so sick while mazar, mickelson or sequence into algebra. while dreams and resilience prevail, the regional crises haven't left come out unscathed. in 2008, the city itself became the center fighting. and even today, i'm grief on have a far away from somebody with again a conflict on their weapons. everywhere people can be shot in the middle of the day or night because we are really a region at wall. gorman has been the epicenter of several conflicts since 1990. 2 . there is a mix of feelings as well as hope when having to wake up every day to feel like what you love, despite being security and difficulties of getting concerned for the city. visit commerce market, angel square for choice. assume they're gonna come here behind a big market of the room. god. this is a central market of gama. so if you visit goma,

you'll eat fresh beans or you eat potatoes while you eat fish. you are to guar norco. do sombrero through. ha, ha, ha ha. ha, ha, ha, what, what else? i marana. liza la. yeah, cassandra lisa is not being leaves, so we eat everything here and go math to our grandma. and you see it's very important part of our life of that we men fight day and night to feed your families and bring a little from movie, little funny, you're gonna on the squalor power world. and while the regions federal mechanics oils provide the food well cane is leaning, just outside comments would as have terrorized the cities residence in the past few decades. decisions so. so here again the neighborhood of winning this is nina gemalto treat. it is practically where the lava stopped. it destroyed many houses and this place proves just how much to pull kennels threatens the city member. in

fact, the city is built by the same for kennel the has destroyed it. was volcanoes give us the debris and storm to swollen with these very stones could build a city. and while volcanic rock in local would define come as architecture, it's the people then really wants to introduce us to build new sauce that we are going to our poetry slam sent atlanta. that's where we work, where we exchange ideas with other youths. let's go to c o i. 5 on slum, pull up a all slum book, but darcy, nashville, is this law for my peers, said norwalk, on to slum or seymour this to know ashanti in those this brought before salty this yahoo. but i thought that was active. yeah. i don't know when this was islam appear, them on you think we'll go, i shall tape him or designed your neural. the suv flunky, to marquee are appropriate to suv. i repeat, gone,

of can moves of living in peace is a biggest james. yes, young people have don't also one day we want to live in a place where we won't be afraid that our father's machine. actually, mo, mom's will be killed. the law silverado don't toby assorted in the streets of an aggressive allahu willows. we just want a city where we can live and the jacobite, or where people come to see our city move in to see the volcano yet are gone. go to see our mountain correlates into the room, dam on thunder. got silly there. this is just a dream of the young congolese, the dream of a youth that just wants to live and have a right to be like wrong. thanks, ben, come, won't you for showing us around. and for highlighting that challenges on dreams of many, that's all, remind ourselves that live and in peace across the continent should not just be

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