of the divisions in their society, a friend in 45 minutes on the dw, these places in europe, or smashing the records step into an old adventure. it's the treasure map for modern globetrotters. discover some of you to record breaking sites on you know, also in book form ah 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. 7 7 will experience flash on like you never seen before, and the design of behind it is a 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 the running with pat off by meeting monique up pioneers aka top sherry. what we're seeing is one of know me b as musical stars, a journalist by profession, an actress, an artist, by passion, this epileptic singer exist outside of any box pushed on to ha, ah, hello, 77 for centers. this is your well stock cheddie. what was all the way from them of

the currently in the hut 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. jerry is a rising star. now 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 goal, like top means on top, the top of the game, number one, nobody can come on top of that, you know, and what, what just came because people would always say, what are you doing? what are you about? what's next? what so i added that. what was the music varies from don sole to afro pop to rap to gospel. but tough jerry herself refuses to box in her music.

i don't like to put a 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 them, maybe as top artist, top cherry and mingled with the crowd like here in the single quarter's market in cats. a tour. i've got every show the next morning. yeah, because this, this is back for the next one. then i'm going got when did you have to have the 5 to give up bringing in her mother tongue or she bumble is an ode heritage. and culture being

a 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 god to, to listen to people that people that came from the north. they came from boarding house, the came from canada, 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 died. i'm in, i'm and i and i and our god died. goes in, but bear bear with the hell what the law could have been the whole bill. why she long. she thought that she thought there was she don't mccomb was she got why fell meaning leg. don't think about the situation that you are in to day. doesn't determine your to morrow. all you have to do is close 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 stead heavier made, 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 here. i did on a p as well counted germany, how it is over the weather, so called it's all called but i love it. i love it so much. tuck, cherry, and hayes. now listen, you are an award winning musician. yes. in the media, right? you have one. what it boils now? my as that is the namibian music award. yes. who do you have imagined yourself 10 years ago? at this point? i've only laying 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 it, you know, my, my,

the people at home will always in a can, you will be less, can you let, you know, since i was a little girl, i was singing in church, literally before me in church, on the outer, in and before me, you know, so i like people around me knew that yes, this child way 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 happened and, well our, our industry, fortunately namibia it's, it's not that easy. you don't as allied to go been then you will be and i want to read that you were right. no. like there's channels, you know, that channels i became a journalist and entertainment general as though 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 team 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 and 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 bastrop 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 it 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 like, and now you have been launching a rather bananas and millions of he's going to be a if you don't know what i'm talking about, and please on the 77 percent, we're in the know, so please go on your job to go to music la. yeah. so you went from journalism to entertainment journalists in if to being asked her, but you also, you are actually changing lives through your activism. yeah, i telephone little bit more about that in my head. i always know there's

a little girl is a little boy out there some way 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 is important. 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. b a. like, it's really a, it's a pandemic. i must say little girls as young as 1011 is pregnant, you know, and it's most of the time, it's not 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, like 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 sick when you come in on my mother in your mother tongue.

yes. because like i express myself so much better, like even when i pre, when i talked to god and come to me in the like your be go me. this is middle. bob says as you base it, you know when my mother then because i believe he understands. oh yeah, i think i dream definitely in um we are still hanging out with jerry what. 7 what ill 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, namibia, 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 how i would know that is my home country. the movie is one of the

world's most unequal societies. the gap between the rich and poor is staggering. years of colonialism then that party privilege to the white minority population and since namibia became a democracy in 1990, there is still a long way to go relief in the world that, that, that has created the systems that make sure that they will protect the haps that that's the reality of the face. 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 in violence in the namibian society between men and women, and gender please violent 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 to move the agency of especially adolescent girls,

young women and gender nonconforming people. and traditionally, you are 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 pushing for an immediate unity through their act. i am talking about top sir, we and oh ha ha, i thank you very my. it is amazing that you made the time to join us in the studio . i love having you. i went 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 maria sat with you on the top. she 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 on 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, the hands like you just said, the hurts, 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 that 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 talk should he 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 a. secondly, use that add to change that whirl and unite people. now you have a song called a deer journey is it has only adoni didn't yet early years. when i listen to this song i this journey, is this part of the leading across the continent? yeah. go had yeah. what is having some history to this phone? ah, now. 6 is this, is this something that happens every day is, can tell you 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, are you also gonna sing about a journey? no, i'm more like the guy who makes love song. i really appreciate the woman. yeah. don't

do this, player 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 i am, you know what with the power i want you you to, to actually working together. i got a, a call for my project. say yo is, is called me and said he was a song and i'm like, a play when me something when me i'm so busy right now. i hung up and i went above my day, i think the producer called him as a guy. that girl doesn't believe me. saw her. is the number get a call in and like, okay, for a number along hello. yeah,

this is mag all here you ask people need hours, 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 thing 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, the 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 get all mushy? lou aka? how much interesting name, right. but the background is even more fascinating. machine uses the cow is the

fact symbol of expression and one straight how culture is changing. the title of my outlook is one to 3 block myself. it come from a game, hide and seek, basically, we to play when lead maternal grandmother, how my name is call co mass. i'm a sculptor primarily, but a multi disciplinary coal, much as a deep fascination for the coal. and it's not just in her name. the contemporary artist from 4th africa limpopo province was raised in the city of 20, is known for her distinctive sculptures. call much 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 the socket call. my name is actually call her law much about my c low birth given name. my mom you can 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 plane and our co much you the synthetic live and was to create a sculptures combining the various fabrics, either nor to an oven upbringing in stark contrast to the coal, which is a common feature for africa bus 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 some very nostalgic objects that i would see from my grandmother's house and things that reminded me of home. and it says, 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 golden 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 cancer as 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 tickets right from place as an a former 2 color 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 express 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 as time to take the spotlight on the international art stage. always staying true to her petty rooms. 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 fashion revolution in congo. have brandley put a swagger, takes queues from africa, philly, terrorism, and congo. latham 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 traditions i as her ah, would go further early put them on my brand if coldly porter swagger because my brand is based on the loin cloth. i am a 100 percent. awful feature is tied reporter angola means loin,

cloth and swagger means fashion. i don't, griffin for, for why do i see my creations are usually made of knowing close wilkinson orbit that there are more well, it connects me to my continent and really supports my african identity. a mon, you don't you just because i don't believe it. but at least 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 love the book, frozen premier pool. you put us walker was born. i also make this clear in the spirit of rebellion as premier 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 we're talking about africa, then it's africa, which ultimately inspires me. philip quickie must be away from that. 000000, just swagger is one for the wild. i hope to take it as far as possible and become a showcase for africa. while our opening reprint will, i think, i will probably buy it here. if i don't be afraid of obstacles, don't be afraid of difficulties a moment because there's no shortage of the law for barbara, but need to have faith in what you do. that's super important level performance only to see me progress or a measure love once. and so people for the sample for the

buddha saga is definitely a feed for the young. our for our future is stick youth now from the congo. we fly over 20 shares. capital in the army 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 our key now who is taking us out to see the site. so out of control fella alec from every one american 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 i mean thank want to let radical news. yes, capital near me. it was just a higher up, but there is no denying the fit of lush green fight. none other than west africa. biggest river flows through it, and 15th,

the city of over $1000000.00 is in some of the year we are at leisure river. it's our pride and beauty. it fits the city and charm not a mile up near me, both a mix of west african n for heron heritage who lannie, grandma houser, and 2 or 8 people live here to his roots. burkina wright, his lyrics in both hauser and sam, with an average age of just 15. najia is the wild youngest country. and the youth of near may city market. well, they devil an extras emperor accumulates, decreed you don't want grandma so we are to grandma shared the biggest market in the heart of miami. it's several, marcia prepared a 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 specialist he can missy send dried me illegally. she is symbolic of manager in the army, and you can always find these here in muslim countries. it's christy, me job and working with friends are still on his tail later on the swing by the international festival of african fashion. a melting course of missouri and culture. i mean i know some of all my family we are here to fema where i have the on our own performing and we have 5 minutes on stage and it's gonna be like nothing else. something from pop. what? mm ah g o a wait on like lights and the crowds. burkina takes us to the dean's just outside the city. it's time to wind down our michelle them so

dear friends, we are here with mahmoud, my guitarist the only 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 yeah, we are here in the army and this is also your home visual. all was we are waiting for you and you all is welcome. thank you. charge out for 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 media. 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

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