it's designed to take the pressure off of the driver, especially in traffic jams. oh, he took it for a spin, red, 60 minutes on d w. so he wants to know what makes with love via banning thing that's away from us. but i'm not even know how to work my own car and everyone with later holes and everything. just kidding, are you ready to meet the german? then join me, rachel stuart on d. w. hello and welcome to your favorite magazine program at shoe made just for you africa's youth . i am your host edie, mike, a junior, and this is that 77 percent. ah. so let's find out what's coming up. st. louis b,

serial union fell us housing was to build the site to leave that apply. war, uganda young people struggle. you don't want the expression online. and we join the class teaching gown again, girls, physical self defense i. let's thought of in sierra leone. the country civil war and at 2 decades ago i discuss remain. however, life must go on and young and old want to leave that dark chapter behind. sometimes dual 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 haunt serial unions . child soldiers like diamonds and the breakdown of an entire society. this is what characterise early 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 where remnants in the rebels finance their 2 teeth through the sale of so called blood or conflict. diamonds. with the help of burying 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 carried 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. though, a fairly only, and 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 sarah 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 wand, some of the accounts of the war may be upset and hello

and welcome to the 77 percent. the show for africans you this week, we are in the west african country of sierra leone. and 20 years ago this year, an 11 year brutal civil war came to an end. unfortunately, some of the people who participated in that war lost their loved ones and even lost some of their limbs. what children, 20 years on those children now make a 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 mohammed. here. tell our view was what you went through. i was so 15 as well. id went 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 and asked me to go outside and get some fruits on my way. green. i stepped 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 wrote knees this about 3. would these 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 either having been alive and also a teenager that time, nor a while and was, and 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 is 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 safe for me. it you know, spend

a night and that was the night that i got great by him. not once or twice. 3 times i think m m, i was there helpless. i could hear nothing about it. okay. well, thank you for sharing that. 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'm 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 to walked in and i was adopted in a family in the united states. so i left our but i carried the burden of the war were to me because i felt guilty for having survived. and by the way, ish morales case, and everybody else we've heard from to day. their case is there cases,

or 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. i'm mary young. so you are 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 has that affected a lot of family members that i know directly and what, what we experienced is the trauma, the trauma vol. so you would, you would expect that a lot of family members, we are not able to get jobs. the, were 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? well, the biggest thing is to have a conversation. at a community level, most of the present young generation did not explore as to war. and for those who

export to ward it or how to 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 do 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 where one thing we're good at and sir leon is we moved too fast and we pretend like what happened yesterday during happen. and that's how you have people like me . and a lot of the people that are bottling up there was a time i become like, so paranoid like any sounds would i? i would just like i went into like i was just blackout ishmael, let me come to you. did you get a chance to get sort of mental health care after the facts? ah, yes, i did have

a little bit of mental psychosis shoot 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 know, 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 are dis, functionalities had existed during the war. and some of the people who inherited that went on to be parents and race 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 in 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, frown 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

who are study medicine in swelling college of medicine. i will 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 learnt from the wor, no, no, no, no, no. thank you. saying that everybody says no. everyone is well, you know why? because we pretend like it didn't happen. nobody talk about it, not in school, not in college. not in house is not 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. util. unemployment. his hair mobile. these yeah. and even the fact that we don't talk about it makes it more scary because if we don't talk about it,

how do we want to move past it? so john, how do we move forward from a situation like this? or what we need 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 less how that conversion in the schools or the university to let people go to understand what went wrong. all right. if i could add something to that, there is an adage in sir, your, if you know not with are you comments? you know, will not, was, 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's there, what's behind a body live with and didn't know how to go forward. if not, we'll go back to that. yeah, i think that's a fantastic place to, and it's very rare that on the street debate we dwell on the past. but if there's

something that has come out very, very clearly today 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 the sometimes to move forward, you have to look back and learn from what went wrong, not to repeat the mistakes of the past. now, if you loved that it 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 the process. now, as we have just established lenin from the past decrease, the desired future is very essential. so we asked you all on facebook, what can the youth do to build the future they want? let's take the 1st comment from full, i'm strong from do our camera and you see if we successfully, cale corruption, then all the was what eventually stop. now. continents, that's

a good one. there. then the koran, jap, mobile, patrick, in kabbalah, which is in the democratic republic of congo, you see constitutional reforms, an independent competence, judicial systems, boyd 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 solution to africa, the problems lie with and all of us together. we can help create a 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 be binding social media and it's just don't, is currently a dictate says perfect tool against the people on this 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. their realities of african women and girls is still appalling in so many different ways that we are still far away from finding a ways to agenda equal communities on this continent on the internet topic. the break berry is the long way to board. as the internet helps fund our understanding of the world by exposing us knowledge in connecting us to people who know different things, all experience lead to reality and differently.

the 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's 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 a dictate that she's been living in

a dictatorship. it can 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 vos, the gender de rusty's, sexual minorities. we must respect everybody on this continent. you know what i agree, africa is the most youthful continent. so young people must be a percentile of nation building. we have to demand the kind of leadership in the future. we want our that means empower in ourselves for the fight. ahead. talking about empowerment and fighting. let's visit the gambia to meet our girls mute. teen reporter, lena gwin, yuba. she takes us to her class where she and other girls len, 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 most. oh

oh, 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 dictating the gambia that health gulf and women to be prepared for that 6. let's go see what the, the plans for go streaming is all about the it was cited in february 2020. and since then over $200.00 women have benefited these the cameras, the national could denita for safe hunts for girls. all the nurses and palm and to a self defense. apart from that, she's the dedicated community and national human rights activists. walk the founding this fan in this, this woman, the parts will respond to violence 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, fifths of tooth am given to women and children that begin to be can always used to be if could be escalade situation, thought it's like having a hand bag full of tools our mentality in the gambia. yes. the are we see and hear reports about m women or children being back from a daily basis. so yes, definitely remember for the agenda. so who are this violators who do you think are the violator? most of the attack of all or the news that we hear? the baby cuz i am saul, which is why we give women the 5th of tools to be able to use when they, in a situation, but not the power of the normal sort of only of, of ad men. they are more powerful and then the victim or the woman they attack in for something as simple as being able to fit the boundary and say no, don't follow me. or i don't like the will if you're putting me billions of simple, but they are very powerful and lee can lead, receive your life. many

a woman has undergoing this shani assay to jamie's, when us dump, she's 14 years or as you to said she up there for the shooting to learn self defense as it. has anyone ever directed violence at you? yes. once i was once a backed by a man, he tried to, i had asked me but i used my voice and shouted. so people came to help me. so is a sick weapon to avoid violence. basically got funds to set boundaries for yourselves. i think, yell and run with feeling if this woman departs to choose how to respond when confronted by a violence, i am lena eagle, you before goes of mute in the gambia. don't thank women and go play to milan. very well said, i also hope you learned something from the self defense class because who knows, it may come in handy at our next stop goma in the democratic republic of congo. go,

my board is wanda, and the city is no stranger to conflict. but it is also the home town of slam artist ben come one to come on to is ready to show us at town whose residence have learned to live with a constant threat of war. as well as the threat of an active volcano. jam jumble. hello was we see here. my name is ben. come on to go. it's a great honor to welcome you to my city goma, located between the majestic mountaineer gone gall and li keyboard deposited 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 30 and for those displaced by will the funding home. first up, the poet and political activists then come to shows us come of unique me to transport. think of what it, what you see here is that you could do a symbol of the city. do love you to an honest,

a work. 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, ms. wilson was sequence into algebra. while dreams and resilience prevail, the regional crises haven't left comma unscathed, in 2008. the city itself became the center fighting. and even today, i'm grief on have a far away from somebody wearing 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 1992. there is a mix of feelings as well as hope when having to wake up every day to feel like what you loved. despite being security and difficulties of getting concerned for the city. visit commerce market angel square for to see when 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 bees or you eat potatoes while you eat fish. you are to guar norco . do some barrels, you ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ha, what, what else? i marana. liza la. yeah, cassandra, lisa, he's not being leave, so we eat everything here in gama to our grandma. and you see it's very important part of our life, of their women fight, day and night to feed your families and bring a little from movie, little funny, you're gonna on the squalor to follow a world. and while the regions federal will conic soil to provide the food will cain is leaning, just outside comments would as have terrorized the cities residence in the past 2 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 for colonel 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 stores swollen with these very stones could build a city. and while volcanic rocks in local would define come as architecture, it's the people then really wants to introduce us to build new stuff that we are going to our poetry slam sent at lamb. that's when we wake law, where we exchange ideas with other youths. let's go to c o i o slam, pull up, be all slum, pull back. darcy now go, liz, this blah, for martinez said northern county. slum or seymour, this t mil shante had been those this brought before salty this yahoo! but i thought that was active job. i don't know when this was this law moped them on. you think we'll go, i shall take them. oh, there's a general the soup. flam. gilmore car. pretty soon

i replied. glove came news of living in peace is the biggest jeans. 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 toby assorted in the streets of an aggressive fellow who willows you. we just want a city where we can live and the jacobite. oh, where people come to see our city look, have been to see the volcano yet gone. gone to see our mountain correlates into the room, dam on thunder. got sidney 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 on like lot thanks, ben, come on to 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

a dream at to reality. as always, we love to hear from you, so don't forget to connect to what us on facebook, youtube, and instagram. that's how we wrap up this addition of the show. we will play you out with a song from ben come moon to titled a more place. see, i have eddie micah, julia, thanks for your time. bye for now. with well, this is omitted before buffy. we can, with phil on it was ah

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