ah, why are they so invisible to the larger public? ah, we decided to ask them masses. what is the poetry? the secret of a house on i'm housed about their struggles and dreams. responsibility is hugely has so much to william, shattering the glass ceiling, women in architecture to smooth this has to be really, really good. start september 30th on d. w. ah, hello there and welcome. it's time for another edition of the 77 percent. sure. where 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,

finger top shirley. what. 7 7 what will experience flash on like you never seen before, and the design behind it is a put us blogger. and finally, we'll do the west african deserts hub, naomi in chef with rapport, black killer. it is an exciting shore, so let's get in running with pat off by meeting monica 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 growth doctor and 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 finesse, also known as the top cherry is a rising stock, number b as music. see 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 viewable artist. but what does top jerry, what, what mean? tough j. 8 5 what means the number one go like top means on top, on top of the game, number one, nobody can come on top of that. you know, and the want to, i just came because people would always say, what are you doing? what a, what about, what's next? what? so i added that what, what 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 as top artist, top cherry mingled with the crowd like here in the single quarters market in catera . i have that every show the next morning or yeah, cuz this, this is a, when did you have to have the spice and the children to give you a singing in her mother tongue or she boys owed to her heritage and

culture being a maybe in itself is a source of inspiration for top cherry, particularly namibian and there every day, hustle motivator. so this is the heart of got the 2 rugs. those are the super bowl that came from the north. they came from good. how's the game from oak park ira? they came from their homes to the city, basically took on make a living. most of that at times i tell stories from people here where canon, 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. good bella. good job. bang out the whole bill. why she long i she's glad that she but there was you don't mccomb was she got my 1st 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 post to day, so that your tomorrow is better. her dreams are valid. what you want to be,

what you want to become, you can become the right mindset. so that's where you stud heavier made, 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 a p as well counted anyhow. it's over the weather. oh, so call it don't call, but i love it. i love it. so much tuck, cherry 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 the namibian music award. yes. who do you have imagined yourself 10 years ago? at this point, i will be laying if i say no, because i know since, since i can remember since i was a little gone made my confidence was always on the hand. you know, my, my,

the people at home would always in a can, you'll be less, can you let, you know, since i was a little girl, i was singing in church, literally performing in church on the outta in i'm performing, you know, so i like people around me knew that yes, this child i hear is going to be something sunday. you know, you've always wanted to best always wanted to be as and then somehow your journey drove you to journalism yet i how did that happen then? well, our, our industry, unfortunately, namibia it's, it's not that easy. you don't just say i want to go big and 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 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 team 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 i be singing and do and would come to me and it was say,

do not 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't do it. you know, to be a musician. just want to understand. yeah. on this bass trip, you went in the capacious 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 hear that all over the place and that can, it just gives you. 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 to music la. yeah. so you went from journalism to entertainment journalism is to being asked her, but you also, you are actually changing lives through your activism. yeah. tell us a little bit more about that in head. i always know this a little girl is

a little boy out there. some way who wakes up every day and just wishes someone could walk up to her and give her a hug for no reason. you know, because that like i always don't, people like i, i understand money is important, food is in 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, is a pandemic. i must say like little girls as young as 1011 is pregnant, you know, and it's most of the time is there 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 shaquana am in on my mother's diag iffy. yeah. mother time. yes. because i like i express myself so much better. like even when i pre,

when i talk to god and country minute you'll be go me. this is me to bob says as a basic united way my mother can because i believe he understands away. oh yeah. i think i dream. definitely english if by young we are still hanging out with jerry what were 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? o, namibia, a land of vast open spaces. bless with good climate rich in its natural resources and a relatively good standard of living. but it also has a lot of thought i would know that is my home country. now 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 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. hi, 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, pardon images 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 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 a me be as unity through their acts. i don't. 6 even about top sure we and that, oh yeah. * huh, yeah, 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 maybe i sat with you and talk 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, 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 will get 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 as with their, 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 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 it is early years when i listen to this song i, this journey is just by relating across the continent. yeah. go had yeah. what is having some history to this phone? ah, now 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 like that. now you also got nothing about doing, look, 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 call from at bridge. as i said, yo 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 go doesn't believe me. so here is the number get a call in and like, okay, for a number along hello. yeah,

this is mag all k u. s. people, knees i was that was 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, 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 the 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 the most read 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 my maternal grandmother's house. 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 limbs. the contemporary artist from 4th africa limpopo province was raised in the city of 20 is known for her 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 call. my name is actually call hello mate 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 cow is the bridge between the ancestral plain and our old comb. us you, the synthetic leather, was to create us cultures, combining the various fabrics, either nor to an upbringing in contrast to the coal, which is a common feature for africa, 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 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 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 cause as my cousins who lived in the homelands ever. 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 another former to color part pieces or 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 thought 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, therefore, how much our next port is tied to cultural preservation in a more than we, singer and design of queen tower is leading. the fashioned revolution in congo have brandley put a swagger, takes cues from africa unitary them, and congo was 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 traditions i as her? ah, we would go further early bukasa. i'm on my brand if coldly put a swagger because my brand is based on the loin cloth. i am a 100 percent of for feature is tied lip water and link elements,

loincloth and swagger, means fashion. i don't within for, for why do i see my creations are usually made of knowing close wilkinson orbit. and since livermore, while it connects me to my continent and really supports my african identity, or mo, mo, you go to jail because i don't believe it would be bar at 1st. 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. li, booker ferguson, premier posley put us walker was born. i also make this clear in the spirit of rebellion as primo her renewal was through or i didn't want to be boxed in and was psychologically ready for people to reject my ideas. more africa, i humor,

go here. i consider myself an afo features designer. if you're talking about africa, then it's africa, which ultimately inspires me. philip quickie must be able to not. oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, 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 come by and europe, if we 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 a super important level person, so that is you may progress or a major law won't. and so people for the sample thought

they put a swagger is definitely a feat for the young alfred feature is stick youth now from the congo we fly. 7 over 20 shares capital in the army, which rises like an oasis out of the sahara. the city on the banks of burton, jerry vert knows how to trade eat since throw a party. and we have the pleasure of following one of the country's biggest wrapper . but aquino, who is taking us out to see the site so out of control fella alec from every 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 army. thank once on that radical needs years capital near me. it was the sahara, but there is no denying the city of lush green like none other than west africa. the 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 in beauty. it fits the city and give the charm not a mile. mia made both a mix of west african and for heron, harry, teacher, god, who lannie, grandma houser, and 2 or 8 people live. he added to his roots. burkina writes his lyrics in both hauser and samar, with an average age of just 15 this year is the wild youngest country and the youth of miami city market. well, they devil an extra info or aquinos decreed you don't boil grandma, so we are grandma share their biggest market in the heart of near me. it's terrible, marcia prepared a pocket. you know, this is my favorite because you can find everything you want here home for, for kutrovitch bulk of it automatically after leaving his hands and follows behind it's time for a snack. the local speciality committee, sunday,

drive me legally. 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 pot of missouri and culture. i mean i know some of these all my family we're here to 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 jeez better normally. oh, wait on like lights and the crowds, perky not takes us to the dean's 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 issue. 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 guess 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,

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