ah, you are cars, more security police faces and happier, healthier people, wrote in 60 minutes on d. w. a . scoring with giving up sports like every weekend on d. w. 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, our top shirley. what we're. 7 will experience flash on like you'll never seen before, and the design of behind it is we put us ah. and finally will tour the west african deserts hub naomi in jeff with rapport black killer. it is an exciting shore, so let's get in the running with cut off by meeting monique up pioneers aka top sherry. what we're seeing is one of know me b as music calls 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 jenny. 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 goal like job means on top of the gave number one. nobody can come on top of that, you know, and the what, what just came because people will always ask, what are you doing? what are you about? what's next? what so i added that. what was the music varies from john soul to afro pop to rap to gospel. but top 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 and 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, and mingled with the crowd like here in the single quarters market encountered tura every. so the next morning. yeah, because this, this is perfect for the next guy. when did you have to have the 5 children to give you

bringing in her mother tongue or she bumble isn't owed to heritage and culture being a maybe in itself is a source of inspiration for top cherry, particularly namibian. and then every day hustle motivated. so this is the heart of god to, to listen to super that people that came from the north. they came from the house. we came from canada. they came from their homes to the city, basically to come make a living. listen at a time, i tell stories from people here or 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 dell, good della could have been the whole bill. why she long i she's glad that she thought that a lot was she don't mccomb was she got why, phil. 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 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 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 here. i did on a p as well. county germany. how is it? it's over. the weather is 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, enemy be arise. 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? other than relying if i say no. because 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 would always like, can you 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 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 then? well, our, our industry and fortunately namibia it's, it's not that easy. you don't just allied to go paid and then you go paid. 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 tim or malay t a label. when we went to the not to should cut the color. i would be at the back of the bus with my iphone. and at the scene in

a be singing and do and would come to me and it would say, do not 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 bastrop, 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's part of the place and that kind of stuff gets 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. if to being asked her, but you also, you are actually changing lives through your activism. yeah. 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'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 college sanitary pads in. i'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 but eggman do not. 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 sick when you come 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 me like you'll be goal me. this is middle, bob says as you base it, 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. c what ill, a 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, 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. move 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 boys 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 remove the agency of especially adolescent girls,

young women 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 youth wishing for the me b as unity through their act. i am talking about top sure we and i ha, i give her my, it is amazing that she meant the time to join us in the studio. i love having you. i want 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 and talk she would you say that namibia is on the right road in terms of coming

together? we, we are headed into a direction, years, but we are still so far. we are really, really so flood 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 had 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 then a 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, somethings with 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 me. not so like talk to the said we 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 world 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 no, is this, is this something that happens every day is can tell you like guys back home it is under spring kings every day to make a heart. you know, then i your head gets broken now lightly that now we are you also gonna thing about

a journey? no, i'm more like the guy who makes love song. i really appreciate the woman. yeah. don't to these play are things was i think it is time for women it's, it's your time now you are to in the show and one guy represented, but i think yes, we must so 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, what with the power i what you you to, to actually working together. i got a, a call for my projects. i said, jo is this got me in the say the ones a song and i'm legs are playing when me something when me i'm so busy right now by i hung up and i went above my days. i think the producer called him as a guy that go doesn't believe me, saw her is the number get a call in and like,

okay, for a number and i'm hello. yeah, this is mag. all has people on me that was, it was 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? and 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 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 monitor grandmother's house. my name is called car 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's the contemporary artist from africa, 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 this acrid 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 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 plane and our comb. us, you the synthetic live and was to create us cultures combining the various fabrics, either nor to an upbringing in a stark contrast to the coal, which is a common feature for the africans. but the rural landscape plus uses authentic materials means no. colds 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 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 go that grew up in the suburbs, it felt as if i couldn't use a drill cowhide 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 color to take its rightful place. as an a formative 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 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 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 designer quill tower is leading the flashing revolution in congo. have brandley put a swagger, takes queues from africa unitary them, and congo is last, hip slash, 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, would go further early, but i forgot my my a brand is coldly put a swagger because my brand is based on the loin cloth. i am

a 100 percent of for feature is tied reporter and linger means 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 that there are more, well, it connects me to my continent and really supports my african identity. a mo, mo, knew about it, because i think will be there. 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 walk out 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 here. i

consider myself and a full features designer. if you're talking about africa, then it's africa, which ultimately inspires me. fill up with you 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 open reprint will, i think i will probably come by and europe, 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 performance on that is you may progress all imager law forms and so for the samples

we 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 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 aquino, who is taking us out to see the site. so out of control. well, alex, from every one a martina 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 a letter article, this year's capital near me. it was the sahara, but there is no denying the city of lush greens 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. my love me a me both a mix of west african n for heron, heritage fulani, grandma houser. and to our a couple live here in the true to his roots. burkina, right? he's lyrics in both houser and sam, with an average age of just 15 near is the wild youngest country and the youth of near me city market. well, the devil as extras in for a kenneth decreed you don't quite know grandma so we are our grandma shared their biggest market in the heart of near me. 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 all or marcy. after leaving his hands and follows behind it's

time for a snack. the local speciality committee, sunday. drive me legally. she is symbolical familiar in the army and you can always find it here in muslim countries. it for crispy me and miraculous 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 all my family we are here to fema where i have the on our own performing when we have 5 minutes on stage and it's gonna be like nothing else fucking from pop with. oh, i do a waste of like lights and the crowds. burkina takes us to the deals just outside the city. it's time to wind down, all michelle,

them for dear friends. we are here with mama, my guitarist the on the agenda that might you, 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 i are waiting for you and you all is welcome. thank you charles. out. but iraq, 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

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