on the inside, our correspondence is on the ground reporting from across the continent. the trends doesn't matter to you. in 60 minutes point dw, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. a magic corner. hotspots with some great cultural memorials to boot w travel. we go hello there it is so great to have you on yet another fantastic addition of the 77 percent. the show for us african young majority. my name is wendy camara and i'm delighted to be your host to day

to day we are going to do some self reflection and look at how africa is really through global news. after all, we other 77 percent r a t v magazine portraying africa. but we also have more coming up in our st debate. we review how africa is viewed through the eyes of international media. in cyprus, we attend young refugees on their long path to becoming basketball stars. and in our series, tommy, cause we asked nigerian does what i just, i to ranking how he became the person to conflict corruption, disease farming. international media is often accused of focusing solely on negative headlines coming out of the african continent or overlooking them altogether. do you agree? let's kick off the show by 1st hearing what young africans on the streets of south

africa, nigeria, and kenya. think, i think the international news out there do be top. i should get some more african content and the traditions and cultural in africa. there's still a lot of pushing the colonial way of things into africa. still a lot of pushing influence from american africa. they want us to be portrayed as a continent that's hungry and yet we have resources that understanding that we need to take care of ourselves. we need to understand ourselves, so we need to prioritize speaking to each other, rather than getting the white months view. i feel that they should come to africa and document all the good things happening here are the creativity of the developmental transitioning and puts it out there. so the walden, the africa is green as well. a lot of the times of the kids would take maybe i think what will help she is of the media houses and generally need to come out more

unsure. the real stories of up until then all of the ones. let's now go to bon weather and all global media forum, just place and media professionals from all over africa and the world were present . so my colleague told me, oh, logical caught up with a couple of them to find out how do we as media practitioners, view africa with stories, do you as the audience want to see? and what can editors and journalism leaders do better? let's watch this insightful debate. the, the, or in ukraine, the coven, 19 pandemic. these are stories that have dominated the news recently. but what about major stories from africa that don't grab the world's attention? here at d, w global media forum, we've got together a group of media professionals from africa and abroad to discuss the stories that

matter. let's start with our panel and very quickly i'll start with aldrin. can you tell us what stories matter to you very quickly? what it all depends on what be covering on the day it could be that a check. fine cape town is the most important story of the day. even though you have people dying in the d o. c. but what, what would you like to see covered? i think human interest stories 1st of all. so this is about the human beings, the sufferings and, but also, but also very important. it's also telling the good story. it's not just about the ugly story. all right, let's come to the youngest member of our panel. had ita from tanza near an award winning youth reporter. what stories do you cover and the stories which i cover, it's all about girls developing their countries. also women's cars in africa. women are like i like suspended. they cannot do something until nowadays,

although there knows which are guiding them and to sorry i getting them. they cannot do something much through this programs which am doing. they can know that woman's there still are people who can still develop our countries. they hold high ranks of government and they're still doing good for 2. let's come to you for to is a present and reporter with gambia is the gamblers state broadcaster of these the kinds of stories that go on l. that when you go into these are stories you cover very much. so i, the gamma is relatively a small country where our population of largest 2000000 people. so we don't necessarily have very big issues. but we also battle with some of these things that happen across africa as well. you know, from youth employ unemployment from maternity issues from sexual, engender base violence. and up until now, waste as struggling to carry out these, you know, these issues the way they should in, you know, the mainstream media,

bulky mcgrew. now you are the executive director at africa. no filter. you don't read a report on how africa covers africa. what kinds of stories are, are these that are being covered? i had to reflect what these. oh, and as i said, either reflect what alvin said. he wants to see what is more good news, more positive news, more feature type stories. what we found was that on was 81 percent of the stories we picked up that africans a reading in african media about other african countries was negative. it was hard news. and by definition hard news tends to be negative news. it was the humanitarian crises that you're talking about. so we're getting a lot of coverage on that sort of news. what we found was missing was the human interest stories with the stories of arts and culture. i mean, when you think about africa, what is our biggest export? if it's not afro beats with music, but we don't cover it, we don't cover the industry, we don't cover the sector. so there is a lot missing and there's a lot of work that needs to be done. lest hunter richard walker. d w's chief

international editor. but you are also head of the newsroom for a brit. how do we decide what stories are top that that the, make it to the very top of the news? yeah, well, it's a kind of class. it is a question for journalist, isn't it? but you can say that sometimes it comes down to kind of come, combination of sort of urgency untimeliness, you know, what has just happened a kind of a judgment about the impact and then often kind of proximity, like how close is that is often and it often a question that media will last. now of course, when, when you can in a regional media where you're serving either one country or one region, then proximity is one thing. but for deutsch, vela, we're global, you know, so it's a, we kind of have multiple levels in which we so view kind of proximity to us. just keep it with you for a 2nd. you've also covered, you know, under your ram it has been india for example. india is a country of over 1000000000 people. yet the news coverage doesn't seem as if india is a one point, something 1000000000 country. and we could say the same about many african

countries. why of those in terms of, you know, the importance not, not making it up there. and with such frequency, i'm just back recently from india where i was there for a week kind of covering what's going on in india. geopolitically. i was kind seeing one thing that the indian foreign minister said when i was there. he said, you know, basically whenever europe has a problem is everybody's problem. but when we have, we have a problem, it's our problem. one thing that has really changed in the way stories are covered is the power of social media. social media has given people a platform to be able to raise their stories and gain the mainstream media attention of our to let's come to you. i'm when i did a study on media choices and decision making in my bachelors, i realized that i are a lot of young people took their conversation on social media because they felt that their stories were not really captured on mainstream. it also does not display the fact that these young people feed that they're so much fake news and miss

information on the mainstream. but still this is where they're able to, you know, i'm amplified. they, they, the courses, this is where they able to represent themselves. i gramma, tumble you are the news editor at the east african. these issues have been talked about. why are we not seeing them in the news? first of all, we need to report the stories of people and in my country. we've had the challenge where the social media is used by the audience to challenge us, to report certain stories. and they can tell you that in some cases the, they even challenge us to sort of correct our mistakes. and this becomes a, a very useful thing because the authorities have all is used and they are the media to sort of tell stories that they want. and not necessarily to, to tell their stories other people want and we have so much power over over the media. i think media ownership, for example,

the political environment and justice who is under tasing on the media platforms. interesting are you have your hand up arm canada, for example in tanzania, many media as i not balanced in both sides. they have no freedom to malice themself because maybe they're politic, they're, they're one whole is only that media is a politician. so here are she is governing day, their media that you should put this in this in this in media max. there had no freedom to talk about the extent of things. how can things change? how can you and your colleagues change the way the stories are done? i think the western media has succeeded in kind of said in disband that of what journalism. oh, good journalism is. and i think i understand because they have, you know, a bigger representation and they do operating on a very international scale. but like you were mentioning, how do we localize then the content?

because these things are important. but how much more of our stories are we project in, in the news? i think that is a lot for us to take away that there is quite a lot to do. but for you who's just watch this conversation and listen to what's been said, what do you think? let us know this has been 77 percent. thanks for joining us. ah, thank you to me. and in a how can we change how things are done? tell us through email or our social media platforms and speaking of platforms d. w in partnership with south africa joker and our fm and east coast radio has launched that regional podcast. dont hold back feed, allowed. the broadcast is hosted by noisy bella. com. got it, my alba who talks to various guests on topics like mental health monies, sex, careers and life choices. you can listen to the podcast on the jack ronda if an east coast radio podcast platforms and everywhere you get your broadcast. and you

can also watch it on the d. w, africa, youtube page. now on to a different topic. social media posts a saying that global migration is skyrocketing. but is that true? could it be that migration is not accelerating, but that there are just more people in the world? let's find out. auntie bucked. contrary to popular believe global migration has been very stable over the past 60 years. the fear of huge migrant waves has gripped people in various parts of the world. social media post claim that migration is skyrocketing, this is false. let's explain. while the total number of global migrants has increased over the past 60 years, so has the overall world population. it is region from free, bullion to almost 8000000000 half

a century ago. 3 percent of the wolves population were migrant. today. that number remains almost the same at 3.5 percent. for sub saharan africa, the figures have even slightly dropped. and it's not true that all african migrants are desperate to leave the continent. the vast majority of migrants and refugees in africa only move to neighboring countries. global migration is not exhilarating. they're just more people in the world. now on the small mediterranean island of cyprus, the situation for african refugees is dire. even with asylum status grunted. former inhabitants of can't like panada, have a hard time integrating into society due to lack of political wheel. but joshua compiler and his teammates have found a way to deal with frustration in

a positive way on the basketball cut. i like joshua cumberland is a true fighter, the captain of the hooked refugee basketball team husband fights in all his life. he fled the democratic republic of congo, due to conflict, arrive in his cypress in may. 2020 ways is even. you see, i explained my situation to have a friend who advised that i come to cyprus to seek refuge whom 1st i went to turkey, then entered northern, sombre, and then i crossed over into the south. what was supposed to be a new lease on life soon turned into a nightmare. the 17 year old was arrested by separate police and thrown into an

adult prison for 4 months. despite been a minor bus in re dall, liquid messiah a little on the 1st, i was kept in the police station, and in the morning i was taken to the court. i explained to them that i was a refugee hazel, but i was told i had violated the lockdown and curfew regulations hiwassee really traverse good traffic. city rocketry on township were paralegal. it was not easy for me because i had never been in prison before. pearl isn't thousands of asylum seekers. full combat, las root each yet they arrive in sudden cypress from turkey. once here, they must spend months at a pool, not our reception center, located about 10 kilometers outside a capital. nick will cea. the comp is over crowded. sanitation is poor and access

to social services limited. many of the residents here rely on donations from group slight generation for change. at who knows assess, he started a group. after witnessing the appalling conditions phased by refugees, we usually get people to donate our clothes or food, and any other things, the blankets, especially in the winter period, and then we direct and distribute these items. so individuals in the camp to provide a little bit of comfort, but mostly is the fact that we want to show our solidarity to those who have went through to the vulnerable wants to leave the camp. you have 2 months period before you're able to really receive your benefits and because there might be different delays when it comes to the benefits individual might not have access to food or hygiene,

essentials or close. usually those were leave at the camp. the common contract with us, but for the end tell us about their needs. and then we try to return to their needs and those needs are many after repeated criticism of living conditions asked the poor now to come. the president of cyprus promised a more humane treatment of my glance. but for professor nicolas directly, notice that government is deliberately frustrating refugees. once you do manage to put submit your application is your reception conditions that he supplement absolutely appalling. it's embarrassing, but now resembles maria maria it was there is a disgraceful grease. board. amera is our maury. i did this great for cyprus, but also those who leave and are staying outside the reception condition there sink, right? accessing the labor market, especially if you're africa and you're black, you're treated discrimination is ramping everywhere. it really is a very,

a terrible situation to, to be an asylum seeker and cypress as the plan. your next move. several young africans are trapped on this beautiful mediterranean island. unable to leave the fuck on the court, basketball helped come bala and his. he meets to forget all the apostrophes. here. the focus is on one thing. to be the next basketball star good. through using sports to heal from trauma. thank you. come by law for sharing your story with us from cypress. we moved to nigeria to meet reggae dance hall sensation patter. ranking patrick ne mikka or korea opens up to d. w. about his journey to stardom. what motivates him and why women have the power to shake things up?

ah, you know, coming from the slum you, you, you just want to know to tier 2 positive food branding a. i remember that was one of my 1st performances, and that was like the end of the year party in my school. you know, my mom was a lot of money for shoes. i figure i'll read like i, i, my name is patrick michael curry, a plethora, and can i start out of that age? also, the smell is opportune to listen to music. so i started as a dancer,

and i remember doesn't all, all type of st rides down into is bouncing and kind of bounce into your music as well before teaching my tend to singing every one to me. could you mean every one muscle though in the class people, especially girl? i am. yes, i'll start with a girl. i'm her father, one beautiful. the tell him is real mom. and i want them to understand that the, the contrary. they are the society women. go, why unit on the stand, the part you have when you do need to tell to predict your profit, your, your past would work your partner. so just go to the road and extra, you know, with anybody to tell you, you are doing i for room with your policy in go

parts in joplin in what part the shifting job you work. so look, show usually the right and positive direction. my advice, no one wants to be a star, is 1st the prepared to go my need up monday. it's not going to be on easily obstacles become your closest friends from and might not louis seed. you know, we have to understand that it's a german route, specifically chosen trust the process new. so i'm going in good coming up now is the classic my city. but this time it's different because we technically don't visit a city, but a place with such

a unique and rich history. that it's what having its own, my city poetry i am talking about. so we're located on the fringes of johannesburg . the township also, it has been the state of some of the most pivotal moments in south africa history. one of the areas most populous treat artist fans on global, takes us on a tour of this colorful community. the hello. this is susan kaplan, known as st. at 911 street, i just welcome to my old when it comes to sewage. born and bred in west central notice please 3 like the back of his hand from the poor part of clip towns with a more market area or deep slope which is a melting point of all walks of life. but for what i had the dark history, it was created back in the 1930 when the south african government started separate

in black people from white people. today the electric challenge is the country's largest of its kind. santo is a well known face in this neighborhood. he always felt this morning with a visit to mamma timbers found that by his very own grandmother. let out created a little property which are the cakes and ships center with no strangers to this kind of work. he used to wake up every morning at 4 am to peel potatoes. he and his grandmother would sell their food to workers commuting to johanna book shops like these are the beating heart of business in soto. this symbol of growing up in the eighty's send. those passion for us blossomed in the middle of apartheid. he began by painting free vandella signs on any blank wall he could find. he went on to study art in switzerland, but decided to return the beloved widow. today he can, for his trademark colorful,

eyes all across the city, including on the iconic ia to cinema. today it's a ruin, but back in the day it was one of the only places where black people could watch movies. yes, you couldn't voice, you couldn't see anything to the government, but you always on the street in writing and treating that universal regency. you know, we are not happy with the system, you know, whatever, so wet or played a pivotal role in the eventual downfall of apartheid. since i pondered the legacy of the sweater uprisings at the hector peterson memorial, where hundreds of school children were gone down by police in 1976. 0 jim, if that's the symbol representing my heart. i am here today. i'm free. i know my rights because of my uncles and my mind on seeing my father who fought for us so that he can have

a better life. south africans now come together to celebrate freedom day commemorating the 1st post apartheid elections held in 1994 cents when his friends mark the occasion at a club near his home. i found a, b, b for me. i know that once the center of a human rights struggle watched by the world today, so which is a place of hope, color and life sensors are celebrates. a modern unified township a celebrates our freedom day when the mule rog, muscle surf. ah,

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