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shore. we meet award winning namibian thing i top chevy. what. 7 what will experience flesh on like you never seen before, and the design behind it is a put us and finally, we'll do the west african desert habnet army in jeff with rapid black killer. it is an exciting shore, so let's get in running with start off by meeting monique up can nears 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 eclectic singer, exist outside of any box pushed on to ha, ah, hello,

77 for centers. this is your golf cherry. what was all the way from number b, currently in the heart of vento and i'm about to show you around then took city. so please follow me. let me show you around on the monica finesse, also known as top jerry, is a rising star, and 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 top che, 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 don't know what to i just came because people would always ask, 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

a genre 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, an actress, and right to buy passion. but top jerry has certainly found her calling music despite being one of them, maybe a top artist, top cherry, and mingled with the crowd like here in the single quarters market in cut, a tour, a every show the net money a . when did you have to have the spice and the to, to give you a flavor? a thing in her mother tongue or she bumble is an ode to her heritage. and culture

being that maybe in itself is a source of inspiration for top cherry, particularly namibian. and there every day hustle, motivated by. so this is the heart of the, to the super bowl that came from the north. they came from quoting class, they came from a guy that they came from their homes to the city, basically to come make a living. most of the times i tell stories from people here, a cannon. i'm on die and i and i and our god died. i'm in, i'm and i and i and our god died goes in, but. * bad back with the hell what the law could to bring out the whole bill. why she long i she got that. she thought that a lot was she don't mccomb was. she got my fill meaning lake. don't think about the situation that you are in today. doesn't determine your to morrow. all you have to do is push to day, so that you're tomorrow is better,

your dreams are valid. what you want to be, what you want to become. you can become with the right mindset. so that's where you stud heavier mind, right? ah, and who do we have in the studio tops area? well, oh mine it is so good to really meet you. i'm glad to be. i did are on a please welcome to germany, how it is over the weather. so call is so called, but i love it. i love it so much. touch harry and hayes. now listen, you are an award winning musician. yes, enemy be a right? you have one. what it boils now. my as that, is there namibian music award? yes. could you have imagined yourself 10 years ago at this point about relying if i say no, because i know since at, since i couldn't remember since i was

a little gone my, my confidence was always on the 100. 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 i like people around me knew that yes, this child right 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, that 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 read that you right. know, like there's channels, you know, that 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 not to should come in color, i would be at the back of the bus with my iphone and at the scene in at the singing

and do and would come to me, i would say, do not. you can thing you are doing is, is, is a group of a thing in group 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. the just want to understand yeah, on this bass trip you went in the capacity capacity of an entertainment journalist . i went as a general 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 hear that all over the place and that can, it just gives you an 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're in the know. so please go on your job to go to music. lydia. so you rent from journalism to entertainment journalism is to being asked her, but 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. 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's important food isn't for that. but just making some someone feel like you are appreciated, you are important. you know, so i go, i visit schools in a colon 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 sequin yama, in on my mother,

in your 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 as your basic, you know, when my mother them because i believe he understands away. oh yeah, i think i dream definitely in by young we are still hanging out with top sherry. what we're. c in the studio and, you know, speaking of language being a unifying factor, i mean, now media 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 movies. 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 our party privilege, the white minority population, and since namibia became a democracy in 1990, there is still a long way to go believe in the world 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 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 balance in the namibian society between men and women, and gender because violence is shockingly high, the living and 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 wishing for an a me be as unity through their act. i'm talking about top sure we and 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 quarterly or carry talking about unity in the country right in your country. and maybe i sat with you on the top. she would you say that namibia is on the right road in tons 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 that have, 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, oh, 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 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 8th. 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 it is only yes. when i listen to this song i this journey, is this part of relating 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 like, guys back home is unless thinkings every day to make a heart, you know, then i, your head gets broken now lightly that now you also gonna thing about,

i don't know, 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 this is 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, 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, in working with the power i want you, you to, to actually working together. i got a, a call for my project. say, jo, is this got me in say the ones a song and i'm like a play when me something when me i'm so busy right now by i hung up and i went above my name. i think the producer called him as a new that girl doesn't believe me. so here is the number get a call in and like,

okay, for a number of hello. yeah, this is mag all have you asked people knees i was, you know, as really big wow. now i have to ask you, why do you think you 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 arts, 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, 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 again, all my she, lou, aka. how much interesting name, right. but the background is even more fascinating. machine uses the cow is

a fact symbol of expression and one straits how culture is changing. the title of my work is one to 3 block myself. it comes from a game, hide and seek, basically leads to play when you add maternal grandmother's house. my name is called car mass, i'm a sculptor primarily, but a multi discipline called much as a deep fascination for the coal. and it's not just in her name's the contemporary artist from full tough because limpopo province was raised in the city of 20 is known for her distinctive sculptures. call much truthful 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 used to call me call call when i was younger, so the call part kind of stuck to me. when i was old, i 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 not to an upbringing, you know, start conference to the coal, which is a common feature for the african bus. the rural landscape plus uses a 30 materials means no coals hummed in the making of her art. 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 in essence, 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 go 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 cancer as my cousins who lived in the homeland ether. by exclusively using the black and white color palate carmack aims to elevate block from its perception as a negative color to tickets, right, from place as an a former to color piece is a reach in african history. and each one tells a story recently her more than an contemporary creation 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 the 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 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 or quill tower, is leading the flash and revolution in congo. have brandley put a swagger, takes queues from africa unitary them. and congo, last hip 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, if we go further early with us or am i a brand if coldly put a swagger because my brand is based on the loincloth, i am

a 100 percent offer feature is tied reporter and lingers means loincloth and swagger means fashion. i don't. griffin, for, for why do i see on my conditions are usually made of knowing cloth, warm, wilkinson orbit. and some people are more well are, it connects me to my continent and really supports my african identity or more. mon, you go to just because i put a bar at last, there were stage outfits because i am a singer, refusal to 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 primo, her renewal for what was her, or i didn't want to be boxed in and was psychological, is 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 quickly must be able to not. oh, oh, 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. well, i think i would probably come in here if what's best maybe 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 for classroom phones. it is, you may publish all imager laugh once and so people for the sample for

the boot. a swagger is definitely a feat for the young i'll for of you to re stick you now from the congo. we fly over to nick jazz 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 our key now who is taking us out to see the site. so out of control. well alex may be one. 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 i me thank once on that radical ms years capital near me. it was the sahara, but there is no denying the fit of lush greens like none other than most of the

kids. the biggest river flow through it. and 15th, the city of over 1000000 is in some of flood najia. we are at leisure river. it's our pride in beauty, it fits the city and give the charm, not a my lot near me, both a mix of west african and for heron, heritage, fulani, grandma hauser, and 2 or 8 people live here to his roots. burkina writes his lyrics in both hauser and samar, with an average age of just 15. near is the wild youngest country and the youth of near me city market. well, they devil an extra inver aquinos decreed you don't. why don't grandma? so we are. grandma shared their biggest market in the heart of near me. it's terrible math 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. if

time for a snack, the local speciality committee, sunday, drive me legally. she is symbolical, familiar and in the army. and you can always find these here in muslim countries. it's what crispy 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 all my family we are here to fema where i have been on our own performing and we have 5 minutes on stage and it's gonna be like nothing else to come up with. oh i do that. oh, wait on like lights and the crowds. bertina takes us to the dues just outside the

city. it's time to wind down, all michelle, them for dear friends. we're here with mama, my guitarist, the only engine that i might use 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, the shuttle all we're waiting for you and you all is welcome. thank you. chow, 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 guess is and top cherry. what we're brothers 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

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