[000:00:00;00] i with i see the sign was part of psychosis is an awful illness. post. fordham is a nasty mothers nightmare. starts june 4th on d w. oh, 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. da street. the b serial union fell us housing

was to build the site. never to leave that by wall. uganda, young people struggle. we don't want the expression on the line and we joined class teaching gum yet girls physical, self defense. i mean, let's start over in shirley in the country civil war and at 2 decades ago or the scars remain. however, life moscow 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 sarah unions . child soldiers like diamonds and the breakdown of an entire society. this is what characterized sierra leone 11 years civil war. though it ended 20 years ago,

scars of the bloody conflict continue to shape the society and the own 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 were rampant. i 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 conflicts. sierra leonean live in peace today. many say that the underlying cause of the war, such as corruption, poverty, and unemployment remain unresolved. choose a state. the beautiful thing though, is that sarah unions have now lived in peace for 20 years and counting. and there is hope that peace, well prevail to move forward and to live a meaningful life. many vocal use in the country identifying what's wrong with the society and 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 and the

hello and welcome to the 77. since the show for africans use 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 is the world look like for them? so we'll begin with mohammed here. tell our viewers what she went through. i was 15 as well for id, when to rebel, at fact in our town ship. and we went through the voice for 3 months and hours more than 2. it'll my bill and asked me to go outside and get some fruits. throw on my way, graham. 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 my knees. it's about 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 i'm and 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 the rebels attacked in kabbalah. where went into the brochure with our law 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, and he was like, you're say for me, the kids you know, spend a night and,

and that was the night i got very by him not once or twice 3 times or and 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 mitchell. by the time i was 13, 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 to walked in and i was adopted in a family in the united states. so i left our but i carried the, the burden of the war were to me because i felt guilt for having survived. and by the way ish, males 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 mariann, so you were one when the war ended. but your parents obviously who raised you and who gave birth to you were very much what over this crisis is that something that you discuss at home openly, has it affected how you were raised? it has 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 experience that a lot of family members who are not able to get jobs. they're not able to learn learn skills because the up for mitzi. v is, we are destroyed by the war. and 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, a biggest image to have a conversation at a community level, most of the present young generation did not experience to war. and for those who

experience to war did or harvest piece, how 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 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 surly on is we move too fast. and we pretend like what happened yesterday didn't happen. and that's how you have people like me and a lot of the people that are bottling up those a time i become like, so paranoid like any sounds good. i'll 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? 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, 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 where 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 it 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 who are study medicine in civilian 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 learned from the wor, no, no, no, no, no, thank you. same. 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 houses in there, it didn't happen. marian, 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, utah, 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 or the university to let people go to understand what went wrong. alright, if i could add something to that, there is an adage in, sir, you're, if you, no, no, it was i you come what's, you know, will not, was i 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 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. 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 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 to our camera and you see if we successfully, cale corruption than all the was would eventually stop on our continent. that's a good one. that then the koran, jap, mobile, patrick, in kabbalah, which is in the democratic republic of congo. you see constitutional reforms, an independent, competent,

judicial systems. boyd of corruption. well stop this menace. and then a final comment from one get you room, go. where from peak of valley 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 within all of us. together we can help create the future we these f, but that includes being able to speak your mind and express yourself without fear of retribution. one ugandan woman is trying to achieve just that was bel camire strives for freedom of expression on the digital front. uganda young people, up

a peculiarly affected by internet shutdowns and censorship. but that may be about to change. if camire gets her way, ah, decided to pantry, rebounding social media isa shutdown is currently at the state 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 midway. i am from uganda, and i am a writer and activist. i am an editor from gold 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 the the internet, her topic, the brick barry, is the long way to board as the ins and it's helps us to fund our understanding of the world by exposing us to new knowledge and connecting us with people who know different things or experience lead to realities differently. the left that he is on 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 alexson and the people are being killed or on the streets in compiler. i'm in and having a really addicted to she been leaving in a dictatorship. it can be exhausting. is what i leave your vocal. 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 fence of nation building. they have to be respected. we have to respect

a diversity 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 viewed the teen reporter, lena gwyn, yuba. she takes us to her class where she another girls lin, 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 moves though. oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. 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 started in february 2020. and since then, over $200.00 women have benefited these the cameras, the national could denita for safe hands for girls of the nurses and parliament to self defense. apart from that, she's a dedicated community and national human rights activists will keep spending this fan in business woman. the parts will respond to violence and provide tools for a range of mental, verbal and physical responses. why the need for self defense for women were unfilled, defense fifths of tooth am given to women. and children that began to beacon always

used to be if the escalate situations saw effect having a hand bag full of tools i will mentioned in the gambia. yes they are, we see and hear reports about m women or children being attacked from a daily basis. so yes, definitely remember for the attorney. and so who are this violators who do you think add a violator? most of the attack of all the news that we hear the baby cuz 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 olive of ad member more powerful am than the victim or the woman they're attacking for something as simple as being able to fit the boundary. and the norm don't follow me. or i don't like the way that you're putting me. these things are simple, but they are very powerful and lee can leave your life. many a woman half undergone dis. shanie asked to jamie's one of them. she's 14 years or as you to said,

she up there for the student 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 that feeling if this woman departed, choose how to respond. when confronted by a violence, i am then you going uber for ghost of news in the gambia. don't fight women and girls play to milan. very well said, i also hope you learned something from the self defense class. cause who knows, it may come in handy at our next stop. goma in the democratic republic of congo, go my borders will wander in the city is no stranger to conflicts. but it is also the home town of slam artist ban come 1212 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. jump jumble, hello wash. we see here what 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 congo, surrounded by the regions conflict. the city attracts both young and old as a place to trade 30 and to those displaced by will the funding home. first up, the poet and political activists then come with who chose us come if you need me to transport, think of what it, what you see here is that you could do a symbol of the city, to lafayette, 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 moses 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. assume they're gonna come here behind a big market of room god. this is a central market of gama. so if you visit goma, you'll eat fresh bees. you eat potatoes while you eat fish,

you're to guar norco. do some barrels you? oh, what, what else? i marana. liza la. yeah, cassandra, lisa, he's not being leaves, so we eat everything here in gama too. i'll go 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 about a little from moving a little funny. you're gonna on the squalid power world. and while the regions photo mechanics, oils provide the food well cane is leaning, just outside, commerce would as have terrorized the city's residence in the past few decades the city so. so here again the neighborhood of when it this is nina campbell territory . 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 a degree and storm to swollen with these very stones could build a city. and while volcanic rock 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's when the wic la, where we exchange ideas and i it's, let's go to see all i all slum, pull up, be all slum po box. darcy, novel is this law for my peers. 3rd novak on to slum or seymour this to know shantia in those this block diversity with yahoo. but i thought that was active job . i don't know. it's on this last islam opiate them on. if it won't go, i shall take them organizer in europe. the suv lumpkin america, appropriate to suv? i repeat, going of can lose of living in peace is

a biggest, james. yes, young people have don't. 0, one day. we want to live in a place where we won't be afraid that our father's little short luxuries. mo, mom's will be killed. the law silverado don't tell, will be 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. a motivation to see the volcano yet are going to see our martin correlates into room. gotten good, won't done. don't even got silly. they're of the, just a dream of the young congolese, the dream of a youth that just wants to live and have a right to be like one 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 the reality. as always, we love to hear from you, so don't forget to connect, but 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. i told a more place see, i have eddie micah. julia, thanks for your time. bye for now. with well, this is omitted from 4040 boxes. we can pull the seat. ah, julie don't know how long it was. ah. with

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