a cocktail of toxins or a gold mine. we explore the secret sew sewer water with 45 minutes on d w. every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word launch pinnacle. rico is in germany to learn german. why not learn with him? simple online, on your mobile and free to shop the w e learning course, nico speak, german meetings, he hi there, rogue love you are. and if this is your 1st time, welcome to the 77 percent. sure. here on this program, we tackle important issues affecting the lives of africa. su my name is michael o t and i am glad to have you here with in today's program,

we had to lagos nigeria and asked me for why there is such a big gap between the rate and then we meet the canyon southwest. we use what he wants to tackle social problems with. later on in somali land, i'll introduce you to the country for the mill naval captain. welcome back. for the t in africa is reducing. yes, all financial reforms and open economies have led to businesses and money. but his wealth is not evenly distributed. now get this africa as 3 wealthy as below ness have more money than the bottom. 50 percent of africans combined. and nor where is this disparity more evident than in legos. herron night, us commercial capital, poverty, if 15 minutes away from extreme wealth. well

come to me, go ask because the biggest city, many believe that's hard was just anyone can make it here. that's why thousands of young people are migrating here for west africa and around the area with dreams to hit the big. the result, i'm exploring population an economy. what as the economy boom for them. the gap between the rich and the poor gifts whiter. this is michael cook, probably the biggest, floating slum in the world. about 250000 people live here on legal. there is limited access to sanitation services, electricity schools or even clean water. i'm just looking at the walk around and he's he has a very strong on august need to be decades of law.

now just you mean it's that we've been li, the was cain, they show me the was born and raised in michael. he has agreed to sure around his home this is actually i slept with i slipped with my breast. busy furniture is like, this is the 3rd is just this is where pick up, but this is, this is the good news for what to take. what i say in this coming. we believe, you know, believe my money. but every, every minute from 11 through that would be live off of your one isn't one might be successful. so we don't offer anything disney anymore. that's all that governments. i'll do this for 60 percent of league oceans leave in

slums. and what's our communities? many informal settlements, also risk demolition as the government expands the city. but just a 15 minute drive from michael city, legal island, most nigeria and celebrities, and 1000000000 is called the school for the vast majority of young nigeria, the through living here is about as unimaginable touching the sky. yet that doesn't stop the sky high purposes. bryce's, illegal score, lead poverty, and only imaginable will exist within driving descent. what economists worry, the bubble of wealth and reading cannot last such inequality could was seen insecurity and lived 1000 in a vicious cycle of poverty. what before poor, poor them out of that poverty, you need the right level of access for this access in several dimensions. number

one is access to finance. it won't education, health care. while the reach the sheltered lives on legal island, insulated by their mansions and well, communities like michael, just about your heads above water. what, how long this dynamic will last? if anyone's guess, they're going to stay in michael for a little longer. this informal settlement started as efficient village years ago, but today it has grown into a metropolis on stilts. the local state government has threatened to demolish it several times, but us faced resistance from people who call it home. mad jojo, ha, some of the wealthiest people on the african continent. so why does it please like mckoko still exist? that is what my colleague it it command you find out. and this week's version of our street debate. ah,

hello and welcome back to the 77 percent. this week we are in lagos, nigeria, more specifically where in muckle and informal area in this place. and so we're wondering how do those people who live in extreme poverty live side by side with some of the richest on the continent, and what does that disparity to swap society? well, i've got here a panel of very good looking people who are ready to speak to me, and i'm gonna start with henry who, what's what oxfam. this is the 1st time that you're here, michael, could just give me your views so far. what, what do you think? i haven't quite seen if people are impoverished as i'm seeing here today, i will say in an environment asa visited as some scene here today. i won't quite stay in lack of government present like i'm seeing here today is, is quite disheartening. i must say. all right, let me speak to henry because i wanted to ask him, having grown up, you grew up in local korea and what growing up there was light, so green of him. okay. for me out seeds, a privilege,

good to privilege. and it says that i had to, you know, try as much as was you, linda, by the do yes, going with parents if you're inside to get that. and definitely you really want to push you to do more, more in a scenario by your appearance to are normally very dictated on even the environment you find yourself are people are not pushing dots, a level of education in h o u. the other. yeah, of thousands of children bremner under st. snow. going to school. yeah. so i'm just up what, you know, my parents, i did that on the fight. he knew the la fight for me to make sure that i degrees. vindication. right. so what you're describing jay's, what academics would say is a cycle of poverty j. daniel, is it something that you also experienced? no, you didn't grow up in local, but as an informal settlement as well. well, it was the experience similar to what? well, deserving minus similar but not this extreme because i mean coming from a place where you have to constantly provide for yourself. you have to constantly

do things for yourself, just like, oh, my kind of belief said that the governments are not really interested in our well being. we've seen on government organizations come down to these communities just to take pictures because they want to post our social media. they want to make it look like they're doing something. so i think what is the real problem? it's not that we don't have the resources, but the problem is they really don't see this. people are a bit before before we, before we get to the 2 of you, let me invite to the other daniel. yes, we have to daniel's, and to henry's, i hope you can keep up with the gobs every year when the budget is read out. there's a lot of money being pumped into the country. why isn't it getting here? it's been a systemic issue for people not to be a butcher for government are supposed to kid before the needs of people living is going to speak, but to take care of their dear you so much greeting so much or problem of people not on a sunday funding there is need for people to be to be taken care of. so leadership is a major problem and that is all your local. all right, one me it had something to say to me and then henry all gets and what's daniella,

this is like this. i'm going to go of not because the government goes on with that issue developing well because the government, especially the got the government is bent on commercializing. this is like this. so this is like a identified by the government and com, right? that they are sold, disappears to some government officials on that in 2 years. this, this is 115 going to be more used. and then if that happens in 5 years, you are going to see it fancy sta, pierre. that is going to be sold them rich people that are buying the sim assets that we have in nigeria. okay. let me ask henry, because having in this community, was that a fear that you had because i've had it said that yeah. people don't know if tomorrow they went to wake up and their house is going to be under water. some of them though, really once you're in a video house, because you're scared of him. but smyrna goodman, i just foreman take all of us who is so why am i doing this for the morning when i'm looking at it? if governments want him to have up with this, this what he, what, okay, what as social life you would, how did you want to keep surviving? because this with washer ment. okay. and it's a fish on water eat yet,

going to take them out of what is the way i did to them treat? let me, let me, let me ask fortune for a 2nd here because based on this, on the, in the rooms you sit with is the plan to get rid of informal settlements like mccorkle. i'm not telling you that some of this is are not happening or you get to me, but we what i know right now d, d, d, present. gov. know we have in lucas did is a very, very, as the proxy. gov know like, you know, he's very and patsy. but the question is why hasn't that governor brought schools, hospitals, police stations to this place if you think so highly of it, okay. when we talk about developments, when we talk about said goods, it's just not just an automatic thing or you get to me it's, it's, it's 6 got dropped process. so for me, i hobbled, we are getting rid of these very please, because i know data sometimes in the future. anything can call more or you get to me, i know i don't, i don't understand that. so you don't develop it because of what might happen in

the future. no, no, no, i'm not saying it's not going to be different loops. i don't even know that the police ladies does exist on just having the idea to do. okay, daniel, ah, let me, let me, let me come to henry and daniel, you're itching, talk to me, talk to me, daniel. so it is obvious that there is muscles to nibble plant where government, she gently on while to miss, please. what is supposed to be the only don't get to your government in the news iran cases like this is where ok, we need to demolish is police what we need to find it police or me to move even in moving to people, there is no sustainable plump henry henry, what is it? okay, what was the time? of course you got rentals are all listed as queues is trust me. and he asked kathy, i'll give you a thought on your business cuz it all here while ago. but again, you see, you see a committee like this is, is, is similar to the core area where we had like regular plain project,

lance lance we again from to see from to what's as, why can begin this land from this water. and i handed over back to the people and i give them access to the sea when they come fish, because not boatman piracy is because our power to that we're guinea for them said under the, for the on good. think of the big names in danger already already 5 big below now that the comfortable spend your wealth in the lifetime and did a community existing like this so so would it the good kind of wanted to hello to heaven for that out that chelsea yet fortune what jesse area was gonna see something, or if you want change, there is consequences for change or you got to me. so it's not like nearby i am defending the government or whatsoever. if they're going to develop these ready, please, it is not sonton of to yes. because this place is what are lot. are you getting resort? is something i would take years. i just am time. isn't that it depends on the kind of dilemma latinos, are we talking about diploma in the sense that we want to demolish? if they're looking at us,

if they're gonna develop the very place it has to go done. because there's not to for you told in our video. okay, so i'm sorry we have to wrap up. and so i'm a got to ask for solutions. i need to know what the ne julian government can do, what african government can do to close the gap between the rich and the poor. let's hear from you daniel. we need to festival. the government needs to calm down into this, please, and make them feel loved 1st, they need to be in part. definitely when you talk about the people from this place, the only perceived them to be treats kids to cause vow list of course news as and these things aren't intentional. so for the government to see change for the government to see our progress, the need to bring this people into the system. fantastic. daniel, let's hear from you. okay, so i think going to show some search commitments. mitchell, people you at the moment is levy before them the resources that are meant for them, please let it gets or do make them feel like they belong to the larger society. okay. henry, you said something earlier about the richest man, not being able to spend his wealth in a lifetime,

but should he give it up the god mentioned with deliberate about it. god bless you, the instrument of tax to redistribute that kind of resources. yeah. such data, the chorus of person can actually have access to the the most basic of facilities and amenities. what, okay, for me, do you have any ideas of what we can do to end? well, see the quality, the government needs to stop listening to people from community such as the us up stop listening to just while you see spots well, most likely never stepped out into this community. so coming to such as this should be listened to, half, not all me since, and get to with them. why i good with them. i you seem to them, you know exactly what feeds for between each community. okay, thank you. to our panelists, who have braved the board to come here who have braved the whether it's a stay and as speak to us, and also i have to take the crew to day falls when during the same until you our day of us. thank you for watching i'm interested to know what the legal state government is actually doing for the

people of michael. that is why i'll be watching a longer version of this debate on our youtube channel. you can also do the same. what we have just seen in mccorkle is by no means isolated. it is happening in several african countries. but perhaps this problem is much more visible in south africa. this is where the world's richest person ellen mosque was born. many of africa as below ness lived in that country. the 77 percent takes you to the impoverished ta shifts of sweat all. and madison's in upper class bourbon. we show you how young people navigate this deeply divided society where social class and ways are the most defining factor of once future. south africa is one of the most unequal societies of black middle class. however, it's katie, lead rising in the past 30 years for 1000000 black south african household left dia, poverty for a life of wealth and comfort notional. before in the city of dublin,

we met one of the lucky few for made it hello. hello, my name is bruce c. bria, welcome to my home. 2 months ago, lucy moved into her new apartment with her daughter. besides running her own small interior decor company, she works as a marketing manager for technology company, who she has lots of plans for her life. and i'm saving money to it's my tuition. i really want to study psychology up to a level where i obtain a ph. d, and pursue psychology. so this lovely lady, she's a cyclist, and this other thing, i'm so privilege to get these nice troops. the last go into my these for free, while expenses paid and the previous year was in l. a. the trouble a walk, the board, but times will not only to sweet today because he lives in another world. it's different because i'm able to do the things that i like at my own time at my own

pace and for lack of a better word. i'm free. lucy, 500 kilometers and also devon in pennsville for waco. go to her old neighborhood to meet someone who has the same dream of living. the township behind i, my name is adam, are from taylor long to show home off on my so i and i was the fast in his family to go to university. but 2 months ago, he was kicked out, his timely could not pay the tuition any more. now i and that he's back helping out as his mother's toughen, a diploma and a well paid job. i now farther away than ever. oh, my boys, mud, legalese, my kid, maybe eat central bees of academics in all the subjects. the school he was the

number one. so i think he can do his not fit to be given a chance so that he can, you know, pursue his, that has become what, what he wants to become and seems to be kind of his family and make a better life. rancho voice is sir. i yonder lived in a room behind the tavern, 10 percent of south africans on more than 80 percent of the country as well. when i am the, he is this numbers. he filled thick. though we, i grew up and i feel like it's more like it'll pass a law the fall, like parents, they didn't get a chance to fully become who they wanted to become. reason why the environment we circle in, we can the console slee book in dublin. lucy takes her daughter to the beach a year ago. lucy fulfilled a life dream and what a big cup she believes that no matter where you come from. you could make it. ah, it's unbelievable. like it goes away. driving and you bring

in for me that's like that's power. if you put your mind to anything that you want and you do it and you go off there it's it is livery. ah ah. so i feel like this will never and unless done years back to will start seeing ourselves of people who can, who also mean something out there. because i feel like most of the people we feel like we don't value ourselves that much. i over the years, the situation is sort of like a house improved. but still big goths remain all around a continent. the government's own continents appear to be undertaken policies that fee by the rich. so sometimes it needs to be reminded of its duty to its less privileged population, and that is what team ought to kimani is screwed up. intuition ask is widely known and gulf leaves

a brunt of comedy canyons love. his success on social media and tv has helped him bear break more comment boundaries and focus assures and skiff on social issues affecting kenyans. yeah. c c comment for me, good. one of the 2 greatest emotional human beings that he's crying and laughing. i who i think committee for me because it's all good to be someone. happy apple female kimani was born to entertain. numerous and you by his adoring funds, the 30 year old son of a clergyman, new racing. the state was his nice calling. i thought to resign after 1st making a name for himself and tv, be jewish, migrated to social media. and boy, is he successful? with more than 500000 youtube subscribers and an estimated to when 3000000

instagram followers, it's easy to see why most of his content goes viral. just close your eyes. ok. with much off of auto q. you're funny. just close your eyes and meditates. but that doesn't mean he's above making jokes about the social media. korea may commit in also doubled in satire from the high cost of living to power cuts to poorly run hospitals. nothing is off limits for the versatile showman. my government is willing to take this joke too far to make you see the primary affordable. often his car has ordinary kenyans who draw a light hearted look one heavy issues. this is the key. the key is the left. so much your to but the god we can of a tie and canyons at tad. it's about time somebody started talking it starts with one person. if it's going to who's going to fat with it, let's do it. we need to hear this the come,

i mean you can do action company in jewish creative, limited produces the ruthie contin show. it's a bonds coming. there will be highlight talk, you know, what could you can know become a grow up on like uh huh. yeah, i mean we've been comedy was initially as well, but he maintains it's a rewarding general which other copy i think we need to to, to, to realize our power. and if it takes 1234 people are going to be able to do it alone. if we can be able to greet moreover, that these people have influence. if we can be able to do that and i'm sloppy guys are doing that. my food, i ought to do good claims. he wants to retire age 45, but he's a ruptured fans might not let him. timothy kim, on his comic genius, has even helped them last over and take note to even the hashes social issues affecting ordinary kenyon important and sometimes yes, you need

a person like this one who is willing to speak up and that is what change the society and that is the story of the person we are about to meet next coffins who, who fatima. com is a 1st woman to join. so molly lance, coast guard in just a few years, she has risen to the wrongs fighting of pirates and fortune. a pass for other young women like yourself. captain mac is happiest at sea, specifically steering the somali land coast guard largest vessel in the gulf of odd in quality. not taking any challenges with the thought we out on the vision because i lost my kathy. my so who is the 1st woman to join the somali land coast guard? and in just 4 years, the 26 year old has already risen to the rank of captain. we're going to,

she's totally capable. she can be on the gun. she can tear the sheep, whatever we do, she can do it to the fall. i'm on an early this year is who, who are lead a successful operation against the legal fishing for now the waters of faith. but back on land captains and other women face a different battle. the united nations reports the prevalence of gender inequality and violence against women in somali land, many women and girls lack access to education and economic opportunities, or political representation at captains or who has home though, she's a hero, especially to his sister layla. well, well, she's a success story, not only for the family, but for the whole family, and with very proud you became a captain leader. he wanted to be even more successful. the captain's a who holds 3 degrees in international relations and is now i'm

a masters degree in maritime law. ready when i was a young, i was interesting to be part of the 2nd. i was wondering if i can be one of the higher ranks in so many, none. higher and officers were humbler at the moment on both of them. and you know, i can't call something which magic above all captain circle wants to serve her people despite elements of some land sight. she being opposed to women doing so called men's jobs. i'm glad to see that she is flowing, had dreams and making it big. don't let anyone say to you that you can do something, go out there and con card. that is our show for this week. i hope i've helped you to understand, and we cannot truly rise until we help to struggling in society. right to us on facebook, instagram and youtube. also you can drop me an email at 77 at the w dot com.

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