as diverse and exciting as the continent itself is as we met with on dw, we've got some hot tips for your bucket list. ah, magic corner trip hotspot for food and some great cultural memorials to boot w travel off we go today we're at the novel foundation in cape town, where the most prestigious odd prizes were held on the 25th of january. but before we get more into the arts, we talk through the colorful and energetic city of brazza built in the congo. we had to garner to see how one man is changing the stigma on dreadlocks. and we meet

the queen of recycled fashions, to my remotely telling us why her colorful and sustainable fashions are based. i'm values i danbury, and you're watching f re max. oh, with 30 finalists for miranda continence the novel, sovereign african arts prize is africa. his biggest art competition, the prize celebrates and rewards the practices of artists and raises funds for the normal foundation learning st and which aims to expose an educator to learners through arts and in just a few hours. artists from around our continents will be here. one man who is making the art of storytelling more accessible to aspiring filmmakers in kenya is paul key. who have he is used scrap metal,

see creates high quality farm equipment in his home garage check this out. i wanted to do something different in terms of vendors and everything. so i decided to make a film equipment canyon. paul key, who is the 1st creative to come up with a solution of locally produced film equipment. i think with my latest project, everything you see here is the from scrap metal. yeah. like nothing new here. lake . these metals, these dabblings. these see nothing new here to school dropout lines to work on metal. after mirroring what his father, a blacksmith produced field equipment for our noun door bly, ours is of it to a seed of the or not using the our leg because we look forward to the 100 in the limits. forgotten eliza leon, he's all begun because paul wanted to beat

a rapper when i started wrapping a. i didn't have enough money to produce a video. so i decided to come up with a affordable film equipment so that i can do my videos. and that is when i's dotted making film equipment. linda, when, when, when i completed the 1st one i introduced to our filmmaker. and from there, i think everything came up. and right now i'm, i'm the only person who does that with that film equipment thing in kenya. i created my 1st equipment on an edge 2013. i don't, 2013. and i wanted to show people like you can do something without anything, you know. and i started making my equipment from scrap metal there. we may be like $2.00 yet his 1st ever come a cream was sold at $742.00 euros to day maney view his products as both affordable and top quality guys come with me. actually,

i get my scrap metal. as the film industry in kenya generates approximately 12000000000 shillings in revenues annually. kalki hoo ha has decided to get into the market for paul and he's crap business. there is a possible $12000.00 you as to dollars income at the. okay, so that is on a scrap metal. yeah. because i like everything you're seeing here like visa, west material. like we are waiting for someone to come and buy them and go into the safe with them from something else of something else. oh, building all this is in me. i know struggle doing this. i don't go somewhere. i just, i just decide like your to be, i want to make something and from they are ira and then everything comes up. he state of the art equipment includes camera, dolly tracks, camera creams, and props. also have flayed. dogs also have a jib and alpha,

believe lake in there, there is no li, me. you understand? like once you show people what you can do, like this guy, the li, me job been involved in many international projects. i've also sold my equipment to various countries, like in africa, like south africa, a sudan, and i can't believe that is brodis. i, you know, like this guy's telling me, like once you start something, everything else it follows. yeah. pulls enterprise has managed to influence king is the film industry in many ways so far as i think i've taught like for 40 to 50 years young. the young people in our house have transferred this skills. i have 2 other people and so far so good slager have like to leave for 5 guys who had

been wedding day industry making film equipment from trash. but paul not only worked in money, but also a beat near at his chin. being a filmmaker himself, i'm dedicating myself and my life to making films. now the film equipment it's, it's something small for now do enough film, you know, because when i'm doing film equipment, i'm just focusing on filmmakers. but when i'm doing, i thought he and a movie, and i series now my, my thought he can goal all over the while you understand and right now, and i want to build it back in kenya, you, we don't have like the del sales a hospitals and that's what i'm trying to do right now. god. lou lenovo foundation is a cultural institution in south africa that focuses on contain pre south african

art. i caught up with the director and chief curator. i would madsen to find out more. oh, in what an incredible place to call work, can you just tell me a little bit more about the novel foundation? so the foundation was started in 2018 to we're just coming up to our 5th year in existence. and it's really part of a larger sort of ecosystem of institutions, of art institutions and museums. they've been established across africa and especially in cape town to the learning center, i think is one of the real key pillars to the institution. because it's aim is to sort of bridge that gap between the public and perhaps the artwork that's here. get them excited about visual art and, and culture more broadly because it's for everyone. it is, and it's so important to do that meaningful work. but tonight is the 2nd annual novel sovereign african arts prize. i mean, about the beginning and its infection. absolutely. so this is the 2nd edition of

the prize. it's focused on again, like our mission artist, from african, the african diaspora. we have a panel for incredible judges and they're working on reviewing all the works that have been nominated over 300 works nominated. and from that they selected 30, and then one of those works is selected. and when they're selected, the artist receives a cash prize and they also get a so go exhibition at normal foundation. it becomes a way of encouraging or being the catalyst for the next generation of artists really. and museum goes, well, it seems as if you're doing exceptional work and congratulations. thanks so much. 94, it's french colonial architecture and bustling ports. we joined san b. b, as she takes as that are her beautiful and vibrant city of russellville, in the congo willow family. hi congolese urbanites. i'm sam. baby ot is dancer and performer. i'll show you my beautiful city reservation. welcome, russellville,

all browser us locals call it is the capital of the republic of congo. but about 2000000 people. it's also the biggest city in the country of some 515000000 inhabitants, named after french italian explorer, pierre savvy young, the brother, browse of your sits on the north bank of the mighty campbell river. across the water is kinshasa them mega capital of the neighboring democratic republic, optical angle drive. and i'm in brazil, and there's keisha that they are the 2 nearest capital cities in the world. although kinshasa alone has 4 times the population of my entire country. also what it's like looking in the mirror, our countries have similar names on them, but our histories are very different. well, we may be closest, but there are many contrasts of course, medicine, plentiful. later on. some brings us to

a special place for her creativity. there are till yes, zum, it's a cultural center founded and run by distinguished artist bill co lannie. some is one of the selected young talents in residence here everlast. he says, oh that it is m b italian sam studio is a multi disciplinary, contemporary art center. for me, it's a place a residence of life and my work. this center has given me everything i have. it's where i lent my craft and really great as an artist some and has more dance company amazed st. arbor harrison a new shore based on the autobiography of bill for lanny. it's called capielo and fortress moments of the bloody civil war that in golf club, russellville, in 1997. ah, by mid day it's sweltering in the tropical heat. and some knows the perfect place

to cool off bunk to beach. where else in the world can you have a drink and tis the local food with your feet literally in the combo river? i go through the whole thing. this is the food of my country is fuck you buy meat with settled food and food cornstarch. here we eat a lot of bush me whenever i have this food, i feel very happy to join me. up with our tour of russellville is almost up. some takes us to lead a p. the cascades of campbell river. it's a bad thing, place not only for kids, but also for taxis and tracks. one wow. we started at the river and we end at the river. i hope you enjoyed my city and i look forward to seeing here very soon with

time fillings now but one of the judges to my now tim has the chief executive director of the design museum in london. you have one of the most difficult jobs. so after the judge, what are you looking for an artist? like if i say originality, the answers it, but of course, originality such a relative term. i think it's, it, you see something authentic in an object that we judge online to begin with. but when you get the 30 shortlisted artists nominated by people from all over the continent of africa and you know about the art of those of different parts of the continent. but you see the object has to have something that wrestles with our place in the grand scheme of things asked of an energy has to have a kind of poetry. it can have many things to come wit what it can't be. it's just a literal interpretation or a literal depiction of something as to have something. so can you just take me through the process of how these finalists were selected? what criteria did they need to meet? the criteria in some ways, quite broad. but there are,

there are nominators from across the continent who know about the art of different parts of africa. they nominate artists, 5 judges with different levels of knowledge and experience. we select online, but when the 30 best art is from the scoring system we have when they're all brought together and what seems to be merge his artist with an energy and who are a certain stage in their career manifest in the artworks where there is a level of accomplishment and a level of potential that in some ways embodies the impossible, which is the best, almost inching artist in africa that was presented to the judges. how on earth can you make that kind of judgment? well, tim, i do not envy you. you've got a very difficult and life changing decision that lies ahead of the best buy pressure. thank you. great blocks. many people as they see this, he style with gangsters, gangs, and bad habits. in garner there is someone fighting against these connotations and

unlocking this negative narrative. is it to that judge logs are for thugs, themes and gangsters. i am santa, i'm a performance i p. i t i am a film producer. hi, my name is jennifer. i'm a nurse before front of the one who is attempting to roster far i movement doesn't have dreadlocks. so it is not about where we lost our leaks. you harassed the firearm, but loss has something doing with our life. i mean, low in water we have to wear and knowing what we have to put on in terms of lifestyle and fashion, has 1000 gonna have seen changes over the years from asian styles of breeding hair, with thread through to the now accept and stylized form. dreadlocks i, i, im, me sheltered this dreadlocks and i try her allow the all gamma is tripping

into eat because we are many salanza that people can go and have the i had done in times past were in dreadlocks was socially and culturally unacceptable because there was perceived to have negative connotations. i have been with a beauty world knowing the hair problem. people freeze by using this hoss dangerous chemicals. and i'm happy that people are by said, this concept of dreadlocks in this country. michael, a ye queer for 2. jumped out of school at a very young age because of financial limitations. he started a career as a roving baba, a little white with an organization manufacturer and harry real access. it was

joined this time that he was confronted with a negative challenge as some women encounter in use in hair relaxes and this drove a strong design him to find solutions to the canyon national kinky hair from there . then i became a tri collar just by producing products to be able to maintain, been here within their industry. because of hyman, that people i've been doing for the other tough of hair have a lot of problems to solve until the day it was common practice and gonna to hide one's own hair. and the whigs. i forget it straight by any means a $1000000.00 business, which michael wanted to change, to bring him back into the natural way of to solve those problems. it got to where point that i realized my tv, you know, prominent people walk in, leave and doing the i her and solving the problems within the latter and dreadlocks

world. at mit, a branch manager in one of the gunners leading media organizations. this is michael to spell her locks. i made a decision to, you know, take off my parent hair and then where the natural hair. so when i cut it, i was wearing the national headlight that you would wake up, you, it was it your committee? and then you know, i order for a while and then decided to lock it. so this loss has been on for 3 years. and i must say that it's been blessed. i have kept all the issues around, wherein wakes you have to go somewhere. you are thinking of which we collect, where am, how is the way, whether long or short and all that that is not part of that is i think about and considering the fact that, you know, quite expensive. and then also the fact that after every and 6 weeks or so, you will have to go and touch up your hair and the chemicals, and then you will have to be in the dryer and all that,

that i have escaped all of those. also, it actually helps me to do my work even more effectively because i don't have to waste time on hair. you have appointments every 6 weeks or so to go and re tighten your hair and then you're gone. so basically the has been it and i have enjoyed it ever since notated. ready as a way of passing on his skillset, michael in 2014 officially opened his school to offer training for both local and international individuals who are also interested in this profession. i've tried more people in all globally. i don't know how many people because it was the academy that i started putting those records back a print issue. i was not keeping records on how many people comes in. how many people was because people was used. kelley, car products have hot a lot of problems one of worth, but i, you sides the law casa,

but i see people were happy. i see smiles on people who are, were real locks and not right, very comfortable conflicts. thanks, michael. no one can freely wear dreadlocks without any minor or stigmatization. and it has of course, become part of hairstyles. that is mickey fashion statements in ghana the when of the novel sovereign african art price for 2022 was manolo cover law. and i got to catch up with her and her solo exhibition to find out how this competition has changed her life. manolo, the details and intricacies of your work is absolutely undeniably meticulous. what inspired this form of art? when, when i was in art school, i made it in print making and i think when people think about print making, they think of work on paper. they think about that as does black and white. and i

kind of just wanted to rebel against the sort of stereotypical feeling of print making as and as i think to someone who likes to sort of break the rules. my mission has always been to just be innovative. i didn't want to meet to be called print works, but these are hanging print works. how has this prize changed your life? oh, my gosh, and i think my mind still has to catch up with what's happening. my life has definitely changed. i've got so many things lined up and i just know for myself and for my practice, i've been inspired and i'm motivated to do better and be better. all thank you so much for meeting with us more. no, look, they read you again on all your success and enjoy today as you hand over that that and to the oh yes, yeah, no ladies, we can never have enough care. you think, am i right? but what if i tell you that we can make a difference by wearing sustainable recycled fashion?

it's colorful. it's gorgeous. it's my room wiggly ah, m tomorrow marie, i'm a finalist in the twink sustainable fashion design award. the nicholas cooper award and asked me around hand to craft people who own and hone their craft. i mean, i love employee color texture. a lot of what i do is done by hand. and so i think that's, that's really cool kind of category to be nominated. in the end, i decided to wear my metric down. stress it fair. 24 years old. and i thought, what a nice reminder of what sustainability really mean. and our final nominee is lonnie ronnie. a lie me in south africa, the colloquial term. and it's like the boss, you know, the person in the know the person in charge. and then ronnie is a sanskrit word for green, and i just like the rhyme of it, you know?

and i thought, well, i'm going to be that person who earned and owns her own way. each unique piece is lovingly hand made with reclaimed t shirt, yon and donated vintage fabric. it's important for us to really celebrate and for those individuals that are making strides in ensuring that be creating a much more caring and sustainable future for not the future generations. welcome to my home studio. i'm going to content now turned sustainable fashion to find that you think scrap remnants dark fabric to make beautiful could cure pieces right here in cape town, south africa. i love the marriage of both my indian and african heritage. i want to pieces that speak joy, to remind us of all the good things they all the pieces official piece. the

intention was for me to work at the end of my show, my international debut that i made earlier this year in abu dhabi with forms magazine to celebrate international women's day. and i ended up having to put it on the model. and i guess that's really my story. i took that i love to where i have been saving scrap pieces of fabric and i kind of colored in this fabric using those pieces and different stitching techniques. i love this filled over at this vintage silhouette. so actually trimmed away and kind of come to the dress so sure, the little bit flipped over have been hand and not to create a shoe. so i'm essentially dressing people head to toe in scrap. this is a reiteration off my original necktie dress. i come from a long line of teachers, so these have been donated from my dad's my grand dad and even my father in law.

quite a bit of work. you have to pick each tie and then of course match the colors. and i absolutely adore ditching. i wanted this one to be a little bit more edgy, so i wanted include elements like leather. again, this is an up cycle lead um from the jacket, which was quite damage. you know, i think the dental and the leather make for good canvas. i love imperfection, i love my face, i love my home. my tooth off work often inspires me sometimes. i shop in my own book for inspiration. i love the cut. and so i said to myself, well, how can i take that and make it work for me? in 2020 to kind of be reversible jacket. i love the idea of caching kind of and prince. this is one please. sure, i'm not sure what the other. yes, i'm looking at this piece of fabric here. and what i love about, sorry, is, is i will say they're the original 0 way government. so it's 5 to 7

meters of ferret any for everybody. and even when they get older, you can turn them into something you. so i've been playing around with jim crop jackets and what i love about it isn't actually have a kill here. so you can layer it, you can tuck it into your gene. i really want it to be a collaboration between the wera and the item of clothing. i want you to bring a little bit of your style with the way right. c c i think that the ward represent a community sometimes i feel like a little bit of an outsider, but it's kind of nice to know that passion has opened the door. i've been knocking to be part of a network and the community and i'm super excited. i'm always ready to catch that

flight, milan all parents. it's a little bit serial. i think it will become more real ones. i feel my mom that's all from us today here at alfred max. i hope you enjoyed it. don't forget to hit us up on the socials, but i still have some time to mingle cc'd a ah ah, ah, with ah! with

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