i decided to build them a brand new kind of school. the school in the class in 45 minutes on d, w. a blue. hello and welcome to your favorite magazine program. a show made just for you, africa's youth. i am your host edie, mike, a junior and this is that 77 percent with so let's find out what's coming up. st. the bay area union fellow how they want to

build. yeah, i want to leave that by wal uganda. young people struggle. you don't want the expression on the line and we join the class teaching again, girls, physical self defense i. let's start over in sierra leone, the country civil war and at 2 decades ago, i discuss remain. however, life moscow long and young and old want to leave that doc 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 aunt sarah unions. chess with diamonds and the breakdown of an entire society. this is what characterize sierra 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 unheard. i grape abductions, amputation killings, and the destruction of towns and villages were rampant. ah, the rebels find them there to the teeth through the sale of so called blood or conflict. diamonds with the help of liberia them president charles taylor, demons were smuggled 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. a 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 and 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 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 muhammad here. tell our viewers what he went through. i was so 15 hours of id, when to regular fact in our town ship, and we went through the voice for 3 months. then the hours northern to either my parents asked me to go outside and get some fruits on my way. when i stepped my kids on the land mines. so much fellows dropped my leg. yeah, 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. it's was really tough for me. it was our squarely with my hands and wrote nice this of what 3 would this? 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 of fantasy with because what they're describing is not alien to you either having been an ivan, also a teenager that time, nor a while. it wasn't, it wasn't actually and i for the fact that i think it was happening to me to 8 i was a child and then to rebuild attacked in kabbalah, where went into the bush with our life for like 5 days. i think i get to my mother and day 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. the kids you know,

spend the night. and that was the night that i brought break by him. not once or twice. 3 times i think m m, i was there helpless. i could you 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 mit ready 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 life, my home, my aspirations long and short of it. i was able to survive the war and, and, and i was adopted in a family in the united states. so i left, ah, but i carried the, the burden of the war to me because i felt guilt for having survived. and by the way is smells case and everybody else we've heard from to day their case is there

cases or one of tens of it's estimated that about 10000 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 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 as that affected? a lot of family members that i know directly and what, what we experience is the trauma, the trauma vault. so you would, you would experienced that a lot of family members who are not able to get jobs. they were not able to learn learned 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, or the biggest thing that people are still carrying with them? from the war, while the biggest thing is to have a conversation at a community level, most of the present young generation did not experience the war. and for those who

experienced awarded or have 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 under space as 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 surly on is we move too fast. and we pretend like what happened yesterday didn't happen. and that's why you have people like me and a lot of the people that are bottling up there is a time i become like, so paranoid like any sounds would i? i would just like i went into 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? ah, yes, i did have

a little bit of mental psychosocial therapy as they used to call it right after the ward. 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 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 as school. are you addressing this in your own sort of youth circle as mental health issues right now lots of people, even youth 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

who i study medicine in swelling college of medicine. i'll 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. 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 learned 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, youth, 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 made 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 must 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 in sir, your, if you know, not with, are you come what's, 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. less know where we've been, what's there? what's behind a body live with 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, 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 long 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 and confidence. 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 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. why uganda? a woman is trying to achieve, jeff,

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 instant shuts 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 was breaking them so 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. give me day. i am from uganda. and i am a writer and an activist. i am an editor from gold african feminism

where i work with african a 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 feel far away from finding a ways to agenda equal communities on this continent on the internet. the top of the brick barry is the long way to board as the ins, and it helps to fund our understanding of the world by exposing knowledge and connectedness of people who know different things. all experience lead to reallocated differently

to 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, just went through a very violent alex on and people being killed in 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 little if your walk or it's not just about you, but as a connective. so a nation building is very important, but 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 youth for 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 abuse, teen reporter lena gwinn, yuba. she takes us to her class where she and other girls, lynn, self defense, the sessions in the gym, give them the tools and confidence to deal with mental babel and physical abuse. watch out for those most. oh

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 goals and women to be prepared for that. let's go see what the see if can for ga, streaming is all about 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 of empowerment to self defense. apart from that, she's the dedicated community and national human rights activists. walk the founding, this feeling as 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? well, i'm film defense of 5th of tooth am given to women and children that begin, we can always used to be if the escalade situations saw, it's like having a hand bag full of tools. i women 2nd in the gambia. yes, the are we see and hear reports about m women or children be in the back from a daily basis. so yes, definitely remember for the attend again. so who are this violators who do you think are the violators most of the attack of all or the news that we hear? the via nicholas. i am saul, which is why we give women the federal tools to be able to use when they, in a situation, but not the power of the normal sort of our lives and men. they are more powerful and then the victim or the woman they attack in for something as simple as been 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 leave your life. many

a woman half undergone this shani asked to jamie's when us, duncan, she's 14 years or as you to said she up there for the shoot him to learn self defense as if there 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. sawyer, the sick weapon to avoid violence, basically go funds to set boundaries for yourselves. i think, yell and run with feigning, if this woman depart to choose how to respond when confronted by a violence, i am lena eagle, you before goes of newt in the gambia. don't think women and girls play to milan. very well said, i also hope you learn something on 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 conflicts, but it is also the home town of slam artist ben come one to come on to is ready to show us a town whose residence have learned to live with a constant threat of war as well as the threat of an active volcano. jam jumbo hello was we see here. my name is ben. come on to go. no, it's a great honor to welcome you to my city. goma, located between the majestic mountaineer gone gall and li keyboard. the muzzle lucky situated on the border to rhonda goma is the gateway to ethan democratic republic of kuta, 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 the symbol of the city. do love to an honest

a work. the brewery got up the courage of the people of gama, who wake up every morning to wake, to look for food, but also to continue to dream, so sick while mazar mickelson was to continue our rebate. while dreams and resilience prevail, the regional crises haven't left come unscathed. in 2008, the city itself became the center fighting. and even today, i'm grief on have a far away from, from bonham. 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 api sent off several conflicts since 1990 to there's a mix of feelings as well as hope when having to wake up every day to face like what like you love, despite the insecurity and difficulties of getting concerned for the city, visit commerce market inches square for choice. soon they're gonna come here behind a big market of room. got. this is

a central market with 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 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 with everything. hearing goma to, i'll go mark. and you see it's very important part of our life of that women fight day and night to feed your families and bring about a little from moving a little funny. you're gonna on the squalor. oh and while the regions photo volcanic soil to provide the food. well cane is leaning just outside, come as borders have terrorized the cities residence in the past few decades. decisions so. so here again the neighborhood of when it, this is nina gemalto treat. it is practically where the lava stopped. it destroyed many houses, and this place proves just how much to fall,

colonel threatens the city member. in fact, the city is built by the same for kennel. the has destroyed it or was volcanoes give us a degree and storms swollen with these very stones could build a city. in while volcanic rocks in local would define commerce 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 swim wick law where we exchange ideas here at a it's let's go to c o i on slum, pull up, be all slump, oop, buck darzy, now girl, is this blah for my tears, said northern county. slum or seymour this to know ashanti in those this block before salty this yahoo! but i thought that was active. yeah. i don't know if it's on this was islam. opiate them on you think we'll go, i shall tape him or this engineer of the suv flunky to macau,

appropriately. so i looked, gone of can moves of living in peace is a 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 fathers will show mo, our moms will be killed. the law silverado don't tell will be assorted in the streets, era, aggressive allahu, willows. you, we just want a simply well, become live and the jacobite, or where people come to see our city. kevin, to see the volcano yet are gone, go to see are martin gorillas in for rhonda gilmore, dunden gob senior there. there's just a dream of the young congolese, the dream of a youth that just wants to live and have a right to be like, love 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

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