a extreme rough getting 200 people from the june around the world, more than 300000000 people are seeking refuge. yes. why? because no one should have to flee. make up your own mind. d. w. made for mines. ah, it's great to be back for another edition of your favorite magazine show. this is the 77 percent the platform for africa's you. i am eddie mike, a junior hello and welcome to the program. today show us quite special to me. it's all about black representation. let's dig

into what we have for you. from black panther to, to children's books. what's the status of black representation in the media? and an exclusive interview, kanyes boy, on the south you saw tells us what it means to actually represent. and we meet a graffiti artist who has given a fresh look so much i don't know about you, but i get excited when a black actor is cast in the remake of the popular form. but us is often the case. it also causes an opera when many questioning why it is even necessary to change it better than that many already used to do the production company, for example, has received criticism for planning to use a black character in its upcoming film, the little mermaid. so why do we need a black man made?

of course we need a black ma made and a black else in flood. if fantastical features can be blue and yellow and boiled, why draw the line at bluff? but it's not just about the color now, is it recently there was enough roll over the thought that a mary con, fuel company words, disney studio, cast a young, brilliant, and black actress to play the role of the lead to mommy. now the criticism wasn't based on the performance of the actress. highly bailey one group asked why disney had to remake the film with a black address instead of sticking to a white one as had been done in previous remakes. the 1st group of people is annoyed that the fantastical foam now includes black characters. and not only that, then all style of g for the fill, which have been produced for over 20 times now, is solely missed out. and what's worse is that fantasy and real life,

and not any more different, for the 2nd group of people, halliburton being the star of an age. all fantasy is not a big when they say that disney is playing faith by retailing the fame, all stories but still arnie because they're tickling that last charger of people that desire to see themselves represented on screen. now when companies do this, it's called black washing. they say that these me can invest money in telling new stories, for example, about mac, actually one windsor who fought off the european by dancing a very virus dance called to food. and now they've also another group of people who think that this discussion is not necessary. and i can see why in the year 20, 21 january to june normally would produced over 1000 fill. yes. and then

not the only ones on the continent. if you look across different countries there blossoming film industry is now with so many films being produced with black actors. do we still need to have a conversation about having black actors? well, yes, we do. because hollywood is one of the biggest cultural vehicles in the world, and it is important to portray the world as it really is. and that means having black people existing in the same way other races do. now, disney shouldn't stop cast brilliant actors just because they are black. no, however, they could invest in telling new stories such as the african mythology. for example, the pharmacy fraud by been or cri on the wizard of the cro by good you are young. but if these title found too complex for children's story, then i have other examples. ariella and the talking drawn by stephanie corker,

are soon away by lupita no. and no matter which come someone peaks. the fact remains that talent had work and determination is not resolve of just one race. that means more block actors a needed on screen one to do their job. and secondly, so that people can remember that we are all equal regardless of the race. i have a lot once you go for that fantastic breakdown, i think it's crazy that we have to constantly remind people that no matter their ways or color of skin we all equal. and i guess some people need a constant reminder at the dive deeper into the topic. we've invited a studio guest for today. francis obama is a journalist. he was born in lagos, nigeria, but relocated to germany in 2015. he uses photography and documentary skills to

spark conversations about disability and the connection between identity and immigration. yes. also the author of the children's book here like this. let's find out more about him, a photographer, community organizer, and he's with no childrens, especially for children of color. lantus, oklahoma is not during by birth, but in order to build a home away from home, he's taken on the role of organizing black community meetups in germany, city of cologne. i've always put up enough people i've always been, i've always done mentored black conversations, black celebrities like fashion weeks. so when i moved to germany was just a natural progression into fitting into such a role. he's called today's nissan, black and white places with a focus around african art and culture. in this case, the famous been in bronze to an artist residency at cologne's rotten shop,

your museum, france was able to interact with the bronzes. and now he wanted to open the door for others in measuring would have been in bones of here. it's just natural to one to see them because you don't get to the roses and niger and that only here because they were new to it. and having to see them here for the 1st time doing the exhibition of resist made me want to show other people this exploration. like i said, wiping black white spaces, you don't really see a lot of black people in the community shared experiences, but also reflecting on a shed, black history is what brought people here together. and for francis, that's a good start to building a more accepting world. what was his generation and his kid the man you just saw is right here with me in the studio. hello, francis. thanks for coming to. so why is this really important for you to address

black identity? first of all, i say i'm black and is also very important that people like me. i will represent the media and i like to speak in the german context since i live here. you hardly see black represented in media. i mean, you see if you but you hardly see its way should be and i, i managed to bear responsibility of documents in such that space and also being visibility to the community. that is mostly i want to say not saying what exist. oh yeah. fair enough. i mean, when you look at the current state of black representation, what are your thoughts? are we heading in the right direction? i would, i would say we're headed in the right direction. i mean, you could look at the last couple of the last 3. the last 3 is a lot of a lot of things that changed in germany in particular. i mean, says the george floyd conversation a lot of people now aware of the i don't see i will,

the i did is they know what they look like, but now they take it more seriously and yeah, i would say it's going to the right direction. and more media houses i taking cognizance of the fact that black people as part of the story, tell it. yeah, i mean, it sounds weird saying black people have to be positive storytelling because of course we should write that pretty straightforward. that should be the no morality would actually be the normal situation, but we leave suddenly in a while. that is not always what we wish for that we get. but i believe that like you acts previously, it's important that we go in the right step. lot of things i haven't been done properly in the past, but i think people are now taking that recursion the doing the right things. now, as i leave the said, i mean, you mentioned earlier, you live in, in germany and looking at all the things that you've been, you've been here for a couple of years now. how has living in germany impacted the way that you do? okay. oh, okay. used to live in south africa. i lived there for 8 years and i've been in

germany now for the last 8 years. and originally, i'm sure you know, i'm major and so they have that johnny. i had me and i would say germany has also impacted in how i told my stories because initially in south africa was all about the lifestyle type of work. but since i moved, yeah, i mean you, you are confronted daily with what you call the micro aggression sometimes, or you're confronted with lack of disability and that has also made me aware that i need it's just one thing. so that has actually impacted my work deeply. i would say, yeah, i'm really looking forward to, you know, one of the secretions that have come up from your account that you would have book and hair like this. right? yeah, we're going to get into that too. so that leaves us to talk about representation in books, lack of representation can actually be life threatening. yes, a simple example. some rashes look totally different on white skin, compared to black skin. a disease symptoms in most medical books around a world,

a based on white people, will show you an idea and the last traitor who got famous by coming up with the of your solution. we problem that nobody seemed to tackle a decades. that's have a look. ah she the berry e b d b. illustration of a black seatbelt went by. people around the world realised we had never seen them were present, that the picture turned into much more of the new troy. for like a voice speaking out for the black community. they know how to understand or destroy was more than just medical official and what it was a message of hope to do to the black community. and then i said for me, known, these drugs are no longer a passion when the pep was for me, generations of doctors, nurses, all kinds of medics have studied here. and this is one of the books that they use.

it's a stand that text book. you're right fashioned off today's all around the world and if you fit sort of a page is very easy to see that most of the illustrations here are just white. skin is almost black. people goes how corporations don't have babies and for yeah, one really challenge that little efficient housing means as news because disney lack of representation, medical literature, for example, some skin conditional represent differently on the black in the he's on i cities on, on the white skin, most of the clint oncology shows me see you textbooks, a dreadful white people raise up with the rushes you talked about in what was really pink. so then if i go to the hospital, if i stop my clinicals, oh, my be looking for pink roch's. why is not pink in black people? so i feel this and many more medical conditions related to blood watch. i the only reason the medical cooking is bestselling africa. yes. africa. yes. let me,

let me. so once we start using our black people was we see is going to within was the reason is will do, will be like m differences between what's really not as group our twice in our group and at them 11 to 2 actually here posts late on the sunday bit that you be speech all went viral. he says several publishers have commissioned him to draw more block medical illustration. he says he plans to publish his own textbook on skin condition, the black people and wants to set up a training school for all that african medical illustrated have only one word to describe what i just saw. amazing. i guess francis is still here with me on this. you, francis, i mean, we all watch this kidney. what are your thoughts on what your friend nigerian is do? interesting, 1st of all, i must say is dorian is, is he is doing what is very important to the future of how media should be sin.

first of all, i think it, that's how he should be. i mean, people want to see themselves in, in characters, people want to see themselves even in medical books. cuz i mean, i, for the 1st time, i'm also thinking about it. i've never, i just realised that in most of the babies. oh, do the fishes the you see is all always. yeah. we is. we don't even recognize that i'm we're we, we are used to seeing how we are. yeah. and it hits you, it really hits you when you go like, wow how, for, for decades, for centuries, that's just not being the case. and if you actually question us, so something doesn't like, or is there something wrong with me? you know, as for me, i've never question my but i, but obviously i know that there's something wrong somewhere and which is one of the reasons why i took it upon myself to change this type of marriage. because being a father to you and having to show your kids what they don't look like all the time

is also confusing. yeah. and i would say that what the, what the other person is doing that is the feature of how even medical you can even take it beyond that. i mean, even in labs there, we don't see how it was the coloring lab. yeah. so about really showing that black representation, you know, a spot of the human race as simple as that. you hold on a book. i see, we talked about getting into this very hair like this. what want to be had you to, to dig into a book like this? i must be honest to you. i would say, 1st of all, our personal reasons, my son, i mean for the boys and they have this type of hair. and it was a struggle having to explain why the head is different. and secondly, i took part in i, i did a documentation with almost 80 black people in germany. and i found that that had the composition on has a, is v for then we know it's also

a mix up basically the all existence and i, and for me was very important to reach out to different age groups. and i thought, since i also have kids, it's important that i reach out to that audience, and that's what made me go into this. i'm happy about the book because i don't have kids yet. if i do have kids in the future, i'll definitely have to show them the type of plan. why it's okay to have any type of entity. yeah. so let's, let's, let's talk about the audience you're targeting with that book like this. ok, i would say everybody, i mean ever the thing about kids book is that you do not only reach out to the kids . you also reach out to the parents. you see it's a kind of interesting story. i would tell you most of the people that have that have put the book this book and not just black kids are kids of color. they also a lot of white parents that bites such a book, a book like this. so they could,

they able to synthesize it since i said the kids to let them know that this, this power diversity is power in been different. and the book also encompasses different and character. this not just, it's not just about the head. and i thought about what makes the hair. i see, i wish we had all the time to so many questions i was, but i think let's wrap up with this. i mean, for model you said you definitely have a kind of future that you wish to see. what is the future of the future is, is what i'm, what i'm doing now. what people like me doing now, which is more represent a representation in the media and i just media also having to do also having to lead. and i think that would be it's, we already making those most and our kids would leave that dream that we're there will leave to the reality of our dreams, just do it for the future generation. thank you very much. thank you very much, francis for your time francis ogle. but the good news is that francis is not alone

. he's got salty, sol can yes, most famous boy about what i had is in music movies or literature black representation, my test results. so the band does not only support young african musicians, they also inspire african kits through story. tell it, hello, what's up everybody. we are a day. oh and then a day your watching, listening wherever you are. 277, then with saudi sold, these 4 guys from kenya rock africa, famous for their gigantic acoustic performances. the boy group found a 2005 in nairobi consists of vocalists b, n g, mano, chaverra, and e tourist 20. the band spent the years of the quote at 19 pandemic, partially apart from each other, to grow individually. and that includes the following your own art and embracing

who you are. at the end of last year, singer shimano had his coming out as gate a step that inspired him to his solo album. heavy. it's the crowd. it's always been an open secret. it's just, i guess like people waiting for you to say like, okay, i'm gay. gay, you know, ha, i said again, you know, like it's, it's 2022. that shouldn't be the center topic really. but then for me, it's some being, being able to say that tend to and to fully live my, my, my life and my end to fully be myself enables me to be creative. now to flee in, in my, in my own self and actually finding out who it is that i actually am as an individual artist. and while the band keeps nurturing the next generation of artist through their own record label, sulky salt has also embark on a new journey to educate children through their new book collaboration called sol kits for polycarp, it's a hard project. what which is to do is to create content that is by africa for

africans and content that keeps coming leads to, especially kids are coming from where we come from was is it's much wanted them to am i being a father of 12. now think the only father is a van, are you sure he's true? he's almost 3 with and it's something those really some of those really bothering me. you know, when, when i'm thinking about the near future and what kind of contents i want to see deal. what values onto still in him and then i, i then on a look out there isn't much that she presents us. you know, you rarely ever get an african perspective on what the experience of growing up we presentation matters to south you. so whether it is in the music industry or in education and literature, so whether you are from west east, south or north africa, no matter what your background is, the guys from. so it is all have

a message for every young african on the continent door that you are there and to all the young people who are there. please lead with love that everything you do, the reflection or positivity, good vibes, good energy and love b. b, you do, you live, you live for yourself, put yourself as your 1st priority. and this is something very radical a little bit. if you're, if you're an african kid out there and you only speak your african language, speak if you don't have to conform to english. yeah. just speak it. you'll be known, we just learn english to be understood the world wide. but just ah, with

that ended on one of my favorite se, oh sauls. nowhere as like africa. no, it's like, oh, a good voice. it's a good job. was also good. there is to be transported from one place to another in a super cool looking vehicle in kenya, they call them my tattoos. they are many buses that are sometimes equipped with lcd color t. v. 's and huge boom boxes. the vehicles come in unique designs. i've got 50 artist mohammad katara ag. what graphics is the master of math out to design. ah, my full name is muhammad cat. normally people call mammography because of the job i've been doing since sad than 19 ninety's. so my work, his graffiti body shop and everything about cars and mortal bikes. when i started,

i started on canvas doing cameras was not giving me that pleasure, which, you know, i, every time i used to do a convers, i always wanted people to see what of them. but most of the time you do conversely, ticket to some one, maybe 2 or 3 people see if that's really good. they deal. should they play this on cars? because cars are moving canvas. so that's when i said and just doing his hands on math out a small designs, the foster may study, they said it with stickers in said matter to them, they said they bring the graffiti on the outside but of small things. because at that time to pull di, nor distinguish normally how we set the glands comes with the vehicle. we assess it. if there's any body work, we do it. there's somebody, some customers, they're very crazy customers. no, you have to differentiate. you get a crazy customer. he tells you, okay,

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with i was seated in forbes magazine. i think that was the biggest assessment. people look up to me. it has given people the morale that it doesn't matter who, which, which j b o, where you come from. you can do anything. i go everywhere. people know me. i've been good for that and been determined that one day i would make it wow, that's what i call spring inspiration. the key message for me is that it does not matter who you are or where you're from. you can do anything. knock my where it's one day you will make it now and that note of inspiration. it's a rap on this edition of the $0.77. i hope you enjoyed that as much as i did always

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