i know what one does on the streets of africa. ah, let's take a closer look. red 60 minutes. we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner hotspots with some great cultural memorials to build w travel. we go hello there and welcome. it's time for another edition of the 77 percent. sure. well we tackle the important issues affecting the lives of africa's youth. my name is wanda camara and as always it is such a pleasure to have you here with coming up on the

shore. we meet award winning namibian thing i top shirley, what we're. 7 will experience flash on like you never seen before, and the design of behind it is we put us ah, and finally will toward the west african desert hub, naomi in jeff with rapport black killer. it is an exciting shore. so let's get in running with pat off by meeting monique up pioneers, aka top sherry. what we're seeing is one of know me b as music also has a journalist by profession, an actress, an artist, by passion, this eclectic singer, exist outside of any box pushed on to ha, ah, hello, 77 for centers. this is your goth cherry. what was all the way from them of the

currently in the heart of then took and i'm about to show you around then took city . so please follow me. let me show you around on the monica pin is also known as the top cherry is a rising star. no, maybe as music seen, the 31 year old has collected pretty much all the nominations, namibia has to offer album of the year. best new come up, best collaboration, best female artist. but what does top jerry, what, what mean such a what. 8 5 what means the number one go like top means on top, on top of the gave number one, nobody can come on top of that, you know? and then what to i just came because people would always ask like, what are you doing? what a, what about, what's next? what? so i added that what, what to music varies from john sold to afro park to rap to gospel. but top cherry herself refuses to box in her music. i don't like to put

as john ra tag on my music because i think my music, i just wake up and when i go to the studio, it depends what i'm feeling. if i feel rock that day, i can do a rock and roll song. you know, so yeah, i do music that people love because people love me. i love people doing what she loves, while wearing many shoes, a journalist by profession, and actress, and right to buy passion. but top jerry has certainly found her calling music despite being one of maybe a top artist, top cherry, and mingled with the crowd like here in the single quarters market in cut datura. i've got every show the next morning for yeah, because this business contract for the next morning a. when did you have to have the children to give you a flavor? a singing in her mother tongue or she bumble isn't owed to her heritage and culture

. being that maybe in itself is a source of inspiration for top cherry, particularly namibian, and there every day hostile motivator. so this is the heart of the to the super bowl that came from the north. they came from cody house. they came from kyra, they came from their homes to the city, basically to come make a living. most of the times i tell stories from people here, her cannon, i'm and i and i. * and i and our god, dad, i'm in, i'm and i and i and our god dire goes in, but. * bear with dell, good de la. could japan out the whole bill? why she long i she got that she got there. that was you don't mccomb was. she got my fill meaning leg. don't think about the situation that you are in today. doesn't determine your to morrow. all you have to do is post to day. so that your, tomorrow's better her dreams are valid. what you want to be,

what to want to become. you can become with the right mindset. so that's where you said heavier mind, right? ah, and who do we have in the studio tops area? well, i oh mine it is so good to really meet you. i'm glad to be. i did are on a please. well, county germany, how it is over the weather, so called it's all called but i love it. i love it so much. talk, cherry and hayes. now listen, you are an award winning musician. yes. in namibia, right? you have one. what it boils now my as that is the namibian music award. yes. could you have imagined yourself 10 years ago at this point? i've only relying if i say no, i know since at, since i can remember, since i was a little gone my, my confidence was always on the hand that you know, my, my,

the people at home would always like, can you be less? can you let you know of since i was a little girl? i was singing in church, literally performing in church on the outer in am before me. you know, so a leg people around me knew that yes, this child lay here is going to be something sunday. you know, you've always wanted to be a star with. wanted to be as and then somehow your journey drove you to journalism . yeah. right. how did that happen then? well, our, our industry and fortunately namibia it's, it's not that easy then just allied to go paid and then you go paid. i want to write that, you right? no, like there's channels, you know, the channels. i became a journalist and entertainment journalist. i met a lot of artists because i used to write about them. you know, so in that process i made friends, he, in the, and, you know, there was this tim or morality, a label. when we went to the north to should cut in color, i would be at the back of the bus with my iphone and at the scene in the singing

and do on would come to me. and it would say, do know that you can thing you are doing is, is, is a group of a thing in group. okay. yeah, yeah. and said, you know, you can seeing you in a black. yeah. i know i know it, but you know that you can do it. you know, to be a musician just i just want to understand. yeah, on this bass trip you went in the capacity capacity of an entertainment journalist . i went as a journalist is i was a journalist, i used to work in that office and he said, there's a role for a little girl with niche at. i'll here that's all over the place and that can a tough issue. and i said, tell me when and where, and i'm a be on that bus and i was on that bus. and now you have been launching a rather bananas and millions of he's a new tube. if you don't know what i'm talking about and please on the 77 percent, we are in the know. so please go on your job to go have music la. yeah. so you went from journalism to entertainment journalism is to being asked top, but you also you are actually changing lives through your activism. yeah. tell us

a little bit more about that in my head. i always know there's a little girl is a little boy out there somewhere who wakes up every day and just wishes someone could walk up to it and give her a hug for no reason. you know, because that, like i always tell people, like i understand money is important, food isn't for the but just making some someone feel like you are appreciated. you are important. you know, so i go, i visit schools in a college sanitary pads in m a. be a like, it's really a, it's a pandemic. i must say little girls as young as n as 11 is pregnant, you know, and it's most of the time is no by choice. you know, so i visit schools and i talked to those girls about this things. you know, i tell them the importance of education, why it's important to stay in school. so yeah, lake it's, it's things that come from within me. i want us to quickly take a break. but just before the break, i want to ask you, in which language do you dream? i is definitely in the sequence. hm. in on my mother's bag. iffy. yeah,

mother tongue. yes. because like i express myself so much better, like even when a pre, when i talk to god and come to him in the right, you'll be go me. this is me. bob says i should be fit united way. my mother them because i believe he understands away. oh yeah, i think i dream definitely english by young. we are still hanging out with top cherry. what we're. 7 in the studio and, you know, speaking of language being a unifying factor, i mean, namibia is one country that has several languages spoken in the country, right? and undoubtedly, it is a land of beauty, but it is also home to one of the world's most unequal societies. with a huge gap between the reach and the poor. what will it take to unite the country? oh, no, via a land of vast open spaces. blessed with good climate rich in its natural resources and a relatively good standard of living. but it also has

a lot of problems i would know that is my home country, namibia is one of the world's most unequal societies. the gap between the rich and poor is staggering. years of colonialism then our party privilege, the white minority population. and since namibia became a democracy in 1990, there is still a long way to go relief in the wall that, that, that has created the systems that make sure that they will protect the house. that that's the reality of all of the fact that we have to look at the future. we have to look at building something. we have to look at developing. we have to grow as a nation, but it doesn't stop there. high unemployment, especially among the youth, has been worse than by the coven, 19 pandemic. and there is also a significant power balance in the namibian society between men and women, and gender, because violence is shockingly high. we live in an, in a society where, pardon me, are very much pervasive. are dynamics that also make those choices on behalf of other people. and therefore also remove the agency of especially adolescent girls,

young woman and gender nonconforming people. and traditionally, you're taught to not sort of really refuse when a men approaches you because this means older than you are. in other words, our country needs a whole lot of uniting and across many lines. but there are many youth who are trying to change that and i am so lucky to have in the studio 2 of the youths wishing for the me be as unity through their acts. i am talking about top sure we and i ha, i give her my, it is amazing that she made the time to join us in the studio. i love having you. i went to as to talk a little bit about that. a report that we just watch for my colleague or carry talking about unity in the country right in your country. and maybe i sat with you on the top sherry, would you say that namibia is on the right road in terms of coming together? we, we are headed into a direction. yes. but we are still so far. we are really,

really so far because the, the necessary people that we need to be in the forefront to hold our hands and say, okay, i get what you guys are doing. let's do this, those, those people, we don't have unfortunate which people with like the main people, like, i mean our li does our, our people in corporate, the people that have, like you just said, the herds, you know, in order for, for us to also have the have nots into the conversation, you know, bad people. i had the conversations and meetings for those people, but they're not part of the meeting. i, how do i them? i forget about to ease. i feel that music can do so much good. and when we, when i started my career, people looked at me like, what is this guy's doing? something is weird there. i took the namibian flag because that's where i was born . you know, i took it and i, wherever i performed on stage, going international,

i have that flag with michelle. so like top cherry said, we are on the right way is just give us you the chance to change and make africa. paradise for everybody. yeah, i have, i have to just put this 2 points very succinctly, 1st of all, invite the youth to the table 8th. secondly, use that add to change that whirl and unite people. now you have a song coil idea. journey is it has only adoni didn't yet early years when i listen to this song i, this journey is just by relating across the continent. yeah. go had yeah. what is have any, some history to this phone? ah, no. is this, is this something that happens every day is, can tell you like guys back home, it is unless thinkings every day to make a heart, you know, then i, your head gets broken now like that now. yeah, you also got nothing about a journey. no, i'm more like the guy who makes love song. i really appreciate the woman. yeah.

don't to with these play or things was i think as it's time for women it's, it's your time now you are to in the show i'm one guy represented. but i think, yes, we must show so much more love and respect because especially also the african women are the backbone of africa. they hold and that's the respect we need to show them. i love this and indeed you have a song that you slightly mentioned about you have what together, right. and, you know, in working with a power i want you, you to, to actually working together. i got a, a, a call for my project. say, jo is, is called me and said he was a song and i'm legs are play when me something when me i'm so busy right now by i hung up and i went above my dates. i think the producer called him as a guy, that guy doesn't believe me. so here is the number get a call in and like, okay, for a number along. hello jo. this is mag all k u x p. one. me

though, as you know, as really big. wow, now i have to ask you, why do you think your song, which is why when we united. right, why do you think it's so important right now? i think it's important, especially where, where i come from, you know, because especially in the odds, you know, everybody's trying to do their own thing. everybody is so, so concentrated on their own being that you don't even when i let someone else in, you know, but when we did that song we is showing that it can be done. you know, we can work together any can be a bomb and we can make it work. listen for 77 percent has got it. what you're asking? well, the coolest people from now media in those studio. now let's head over to south africa to meet how again, all my, sheila, aka, how much interesting name, right? but the background is even more fascinating. machine uses the cow is

a fact that symbol of expression and the most read how culture is changing. the title of my work is one to 3 block myself. it come from a game, hide and seek. basically. we to play when lead maternal grandmother's house. my name is cow, cow, mass. i'm golf, so primarily, but a multi disciplinary coal, much as a deep fascination for the coal, and it's not just in her nym. the contemporary artist from port africa limpopo province was raised in the city of 20 is known for distinctive sculptures. call much tactful religion, culture and identity in her act. as a member of the petty people, she married more than a traditional art through the symbolic him of this acrid cold. my name is actually called a low mac, about my c low birth given name. my mom used to call me call call when i was younger, so the call part kind of stuck to me when i was all that decided i'm going to go in with the call. what stands out for me is this how prominent that is within our

practices within the slaughters family gatherings, bringing people together and the most significant being the how the call is the bridge between the ancestral plain and our old comas, you, the synthetic leather, was to create us cultures combining the various fabrics, either nor to an upbringing in stark contrast to the coal, which is a common feature for the african, but rural landscape plus uses the 30 materials means no coals hummed in the making of her. i have been working as an artist for probably just under 10 years now. i think it started off as a longing to be more connected to the culture. so i pulled from very nostalgic objects that i would see from my grandmother's house and things that reminded me of home. and it's reminding me of my culture as well. in the beginning it was because i felt that i was removed from a so space. so being

a girl that grew up in the suburbs, it felt as if i couldn't use a real cow hide because i'm maybe not as connected to cortez, my cousins who lived in the homeland hipaa. by exclusively using the black and white color palate call, much aims to elevate block from its perception as a negative carla to tickets right from place as an a formative color par pieces a reach in african history. and each one tells a story. recently her modern and contemporary creations of caught the attention of the international market my work as well as my physical appearance or aesthetic both tie in together in being its own version of a culture that is still there, but just inspired by culture, but also there within itself, most african cultures expressed their beliefs through their art. this has played a significant role in shipping the collective cultural history of the world. now

it's called much is ton to take the spotlight on the international upstage. always staying true to her petty roots. holy cow, amazing cultural preservation there from how much our next port is tied to cultural preservation in a more than we, singer and design of quill tower is leading the flashing revolution in congo. have brandley put a swagger, takes queues from our for a few tories them, and congo, laughing flash, one subculture, no 2 of her creations are alike. and how unique fashion also acts as a mirror to hand music. but what african tradition inspires her? ah, we'll go further early, but i forgot my my a brand is coldly put a swagger because my brand is based on the loincloth. i am a 100 percent. awful feature is tied liberal to angling. gala means loincloth and

swagger means fashion. i don't preparing for for why do i see my creations are usually made of knowing close wilkinson orbit. instagram, or while it connects me to my continent and really supports my african identity. a mo, mo, knew about it because i don't believe it or they bar at last. there were stage outfits because i am a singer fulton humor. i said to myself, i want to make something that no one else will wear and then displayed in a museum. i loudly booker ferguson premier paul lee put us walker was born. i also make this clear in the spirit of rebellion as premium. what was true or i didn't want to be boxed in and was psychologically ready for people to reject my ideas. more africa. i humor,

go through there. i consider myself an afo features designer. if you're talking about africa, then it's africa, which ultimately inspires me. fill up quickie must be able to not. oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, just swagger, it's one for the wild. i hope to take it as far as possible and become a showcase for africa. while i open the printer, wifi with dental for probably probably a year if i don't be afraid of obstacles, don't be afraid of difficulty of the moment because there's no shortage of the law for barbara. but need to have faith in what you do. that's a super important level to close the phone with. you may publish all imager la won't and so people for the sample thought

they put a swagger is definitely a feed for the young. our for our future is stick youth now from the congo. we fly over 20 years capital near me, which rises like an oasis out of the sahara. the city on the banks of burton jerry river knows how to trade eats and throw a party. and we have the pleasure of following one of the country's biggest wrapper . but akina, who is taking us out to see the site. so out of control. well alex, i'm everyone. i'm bertina bowen, allah, i'm from leisure. and this is the beautiful city of miami, where i grew up. i'm very happy to welcome you to my city in the army. thank once on that radical needs years capital near me. it was the sahara, but there is no denying the city lash, glean like none other than west africa. the biggest river flows through it. and

15th, the city of oval, one minute, is in summer flow. najia, we are at leisure river. it's our pride in beauty. it fits the city and give the charm not a mile. mia made both a mix of west african n for heron, heritage fulani, grandma houser, and 2 or 8 people live. he added to his roots. burkina writes his lyrics in both houser and samar, with an average age of just 15. next year is the wild youngest country and the youth of near me city market. well, they devil as extras. inver aquinos decreed you don't boil grandma, so we are. grandma shared their biggest market in the heart of from the army. it's terrible my ship any pocket, you know, this is my favorite because you can find everything you want here. home for kutrovitch rock of it automatically. after leaving his hands and follows behind

it's time for a snack. the local speciality committee, sunday, drive me clinically. she is symbolic of manager in the army and you can all is finally here in muslim countries. it's christy, me job and working with friends are still on his tail later on to swing by the international festival of african fashion. a melting pot of missouri and culture. i mean i know some of these all my family we are here. fema where i have the honor performing good. we have 5 minutes on stage and it's gonna be like nothing else. something come up with. oh, i do literally oh, away from bright lights and the crowds, burkina, texas to the dues just outside the city. it's time to wind down. i michelle,

them for dear friends. we are here with mahmoud, my guitarist the on the engine, a lot of martin since we come here to get inspired surrounded by the beauty of nature and peace. and the beautiful view of miami is in, we are here in the army, and this is also your home. the shuttle all was we are waiting for you and you all is welcome. thank you charles, out ra loud, but i key math. thank you so much. i hope you enjoyed that 12 near me. i think one of my favorite highlights was clichy and in fact, our very generous guest is and top cherry. what were brought on something similar to the clichy, which is dried meat with salt and spices known as bill talk. it now maybe at today's show was all about highlighting and celebrating african culture, music musicians and full. and i want to know what else is happening in your country . do write me on facebook, instagram, and you to also,

you can drop me an email at 77 at b, w dot com. for now, i leave you with some of that nearby and goodness in this song by top sherry, and he's titled, when were you night enjoy until next time. thank you for watching. ah ah ah ah, ah, ah ah, ah ah

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