the would be to us that's why we listen to their stories. reporter every weekend dw, the africa has one of the world's largest goals deposits. so it only makes sense that we bring you today's show, steve in gold. one of the african reasons best known for they crossed and shift and gold and tales infused with miss. the ad tradition is west africa, also known as the gold coast in modern times created, the t is as good as gold, and that's exactly what we bring to you on today's show. we travel to what is known today and gone to where much of the science and goals collections come from to see

how a modest artist is creating art in her own. unique way to find out how companies born 0 val my longer have brought him into a national cause the training and made a local and he's a stuck to the seat of the gods. busy and later in berlin, we visited calvin jones, whose music exploded onto the scene, taking even him by surprise. i am having some time got and you're watching every megs the today i'm at the data that you be all said to to bring you a bit of gold history. within these walls is a collection that showcases $350.00 items from the 19th to early 20th

century. these items mostly from west africa, give us insight into the us of the goldsmith of the region. it is a rare glimpse into the wealth of african art history and culture, the full colonial rule. but before we delve deep uh into this incredible collection, join us as we visit and you read okay, stylus re k, make the much contested conversation about african hair. i really consider myself to be no ordinary spiders. i, the physical need disappears. i really just disappear and creation takes over in the food. and when i did step back to look at this crease, sometimes i'm also amazed. african here has always been a subject matter that everyone has an opinion about, sparking debates on topics around identity and conforming to wides. do says the way in which african woman with a he really send out

a specific message as black people with like, expressing ourselves in different ways. we like very now have different wave. the type of dc that was mazda. 2 suspects women was mobile western standards. so it was like a no goal zone for me to even try to cut my hair and see what my natural head looks like. but the day i've been, oh my goodness, i was like, i'm never ever going back again. i like changing my look quite often and having my natural full beef top pay is actually a bit more difficult to maintain for myself. it's very easy to be creative with you, we'd, you could tie it whatever color you want. whereas there's a lot to consider when you have to put such chemicals on your own natural hit me, you send me do my is a head, silas with a different for her. this is more than across today. me isn't got the home township johannesburg. collaborating with other creatives, well, fortunes,

the own cause in their respects of industry and building their professional portfolios. for me, these huge showcase hotel and opening doors for her croft and uncovering hold of this world imagination in the here space. i labeled myself as a natural, a hair stylist, not disregarding anything else that doesn't fall under the umbrella of natural n. yes, we can play around with raise and weeds and reads, but understanding that you are not the whigs. when that wind comes off, you still need to be confident with the he said, comes out of your scouts. the conflict of a tissues is in essence, a collaboration between creative. this is a collaboration between our designers and makeup artist myself as a his stylus. and our photographer we are yeah, just send a bray thing. that's the lifestyle. when all photography was that we did not have

to very strong male models and we'll have 2 females. all is that we've never really seen male figures with like, you know, elaborate stuff stood hid pieces. and i was like, i feel like this is my opportunity to take that chosen nasa king, you know, with his crowd my director from high school actually advised that i look into studying. he addressing it to him was like smiley face to columbus. maybe i'm not saying that you're not good in performing arts, but there's something that just lights up. every time we have to play, please you still interested in styling? all these characters does come from the family. that's wealthy. when you get to metrics, get to metric and that's it and find yourself a job so you can help them resolve this siblings all kids that are of growing up.

and so when i went back and i was like, i wouldn't be my mom was in today, why are you leaving? performing on? it's a thing that has taken me to places and spaces. i remember i have just come back from germany on the tool as us just like why, why would you need that to want to be busy with hey, for the longest of times they would just like the whole whole but she's busy with her help. now be, can see that it hasn't. it's my life. a pod from silent models with tv and photo sheets, maybe runs her own head studio from home. and she's full of tips and wisdom and making sure one's natural. he stays flourishing. so we're prepping the hey. we need is

a handle to drive because we break it some water and just do some thing at the tangling before we can get started. i feel like it plays a very significant role, especially with it spirituality. and i don't want to just record it and say african spirituality, spirituality as a whole, within our african, the rates of wendy is a funeral head plays a significant role with the family may, should also they, he in morning there are women that are not allowed to show say hey, to the community and needs specific people on mates to see that hey, you cover up so i believe every time i touch someone's head, i'm touching more than the strength that i see. yeah, i am definitely inspired by our african ancient his styles because it's kind of gives me

a chance to re mix it the way i see and how it plays out in my head. and there's no wrong or i will not have that in any of his a c and for weeks. and that's what actually makes the here to show you creative shaking of what design arts and beauty is all about. and you are less than gone. that is bringing her right. you also world in the streets of cra, let's check this out. i've been able to find out in the culture that i have implemented in my work, the northern parsons, that influenced my work so much. and then the one to most of my works also i've been able to land the love,

the supports in the unity of the northern people. and i represent this who measuring my work to realize of my work is always very pride's the college and very happy the i decided to and science of arts because it's something that has always been in me . my mom was refreshing and his and i had brother was him your i live on my dad's side. so i come from a long line of xylophone producers which is also acts in cross initially. so, subconsciously i grew up in the presence of these things and when it goes to the points way, how to insights i need to push it doesn't, even though is something that was supposed to do. my switch from having the korea and i've had cultural science, so i wasn't supposed to move in the beginning, but also my career to close my family and everybody has been very,

very supportive. my mom, initial stages. i couldn't swap a head around exactly what i wanted to do, the assessments. he was something the boy that has so much. let's go to a point and she realized that she had to support saying, because it was no way i was backing down from people in the office. i made up my mind and my me that the coming out to new point of self asp. it's going to be released and across. we have been uncles, work is seen in many commercial buildings throughout the city. this of both actors who made it. and every culture has made a name for myself is the hash mill dominique that i've seen since she started working awesome. you at least in 2015 when it comes to your cultural science. and it's the are kind of similar and not similar of the same time because on the field

we practice things like cope with titian, learn rotation, and that's as a skill. like when it comes with a couple teaching, you have to know how to arrange your cups in the field for like a maximum you, when it comes to odds, i implements the same tactic. have to prepare for the week. i have to make sure i know how it went through, teach my colors will teach, stay puts ends in the work. so in a way for me it's similar my work now such as neil philosophies like times, bees reality freedom. how to be a self and be true to yourself. and as i move out from the fees, i try very much to incorporate things. i have lanes for my culture into my way to educate people on how to find himself. awesome, we released who has the ability to transform any functional space into

a feasible the census. lena? bang also pains on canvases. the i do so my converse pieces buffle. now i take commissions will only portrays, i have puts a hold on selling any of my actual pieces because i'm working on an odd series right now, which i would hopefully exhibits before the end of the year. this as series i'm working on, i'm with it. take everybody on the trip into my mind to show you how i view things to are means to be normal in the society. we know bank continues to push the limits as her creative work brings excite them into one of our classes. biggest outdoor spaces when we begun to bill is that even 2nd time we had a couple of inspirations in mind as in what you want to do for the outdoor space and in the, in the space. so we reach out to meet up on,

on contains of how we kind of transform the outer space, make it small. i to stay can make it more stylish and after the wake of it. but it was like, wow, this work is beautiful. i would think that as a business does contribute touch to the present that we build here. it is going to be that to our i'm beings here. and we've had a couple of people coming in. wanted to book the place for musical concepts for. busy do not simply because of the memo that we have on the wall, the someone who has decided to big the stereotype and live my to so for us on the arches, it has saved source of inspiration for preventive gills. who are like me and want to be like me this, see that the limits what they can do they see the possibilities and live in your shoes and being who you want to be without having any way to get service locations

. we know banks ok no matter on which kind of us, it's a celebration of african patents and colors. she's checking out the art scene and gunner and brick and rules as you go today, we're visiting the gold of africa exposition and with me is like i told my goal of who will be taking us dukes part of our history. thank you for making time to show us this really fascinating part about history being so long ago . how did the process of gold costing and creation happens when we order say, to manage to begin in africa, right? and, and, and everybody migrated to the rest of the, of the world. i'm so sick this 2nd practice that, that comes from english is from this continent, especially that on smell it from, from iron age where iron was smelled. so to make to the folks that we're going to

have to be out there, the scientific and think that we some united ways of really transforming metals to items that are of great disputing the how do we tell the issue of goals? so state and control the sea for future generations. the uh moments of, uh, referencing the steps and it's about to go into ownership of it. so it was owned by a you working families and how it's collected, obviously, is it still needs to be research into it. cuz obviously this story cutaway is from the perspective of the buyer who bought this gold and the gold west captains africa instead of because it made important play it in the co colonial excursions.

physically we are, we where, and i think you know, ways to a soft landing spot for a choice of cheese that have any other questions. discolored. west houses that are like, comes from elsewhere. so we just part of the colonial kind of speed for lack of better ways because there is no record of 2 people, at least for the transaction. and all of these types of gold pieces still produce in the world today. yes. and no. i think the input years to possibly as a form of the connection, but just to a fine ended up to 6 basis that the some artist what became me to go back and reference this, but also got translated into different kind of mediums no longer. maybe making a goal to fix, but those symbol of symbolic a static site emitted in, in, in our patents of, of our dress like for example,

beautiful dress. if you look at it and you reference some of the patents with objects, you begin to see the system level of reference. so there's been kind of translation translating this cups, test and ship into defend materials and formats. thank you, mr. mcculla for showing us to this wonderful part of our history development as long as race to wanting to gully is a must visit where he is no for the fusion of fine dining at and actually can cause the he shows us why and how he created. he's cigna to dish homeland under to uh, the test test. this, the congolese, born to a film a longer is a familiar face on the gulley,

cruising and seen after working in 3 different michigan restaurants in germany. he returns to advocate to keep dining experiences. 9 youth distinctly african roots with this group and kitchen, experienced and treated the results, a delightful fusion. delectable new flavors and pieces and stations. today, he has invited us to spend the day with him. i was born and i grew up in germany and that was so i lived in front states can for us and together. and i keep getting for music choice and people to see why people seem to be doing the home. and if you get to choose from useful, that's why i came back because getting confident that now so we start, the 1st project is a shift enough because the platform creates vision is like the connections in africa and that is so in the just for us why do we do is likely share connections, share information, listen different shifts and different countries. and that is,

so sometimes we, uh, we meet to talk about the african 4th. and we are in know, 45 countries in alfred can. that's when i may have gotten an error. i took 2 years, 201516212, whatever on the forgot to learn more about african cruise in the talking about the 54 countries mom's and that was liked to understand more. that's why i think that's a 2 year is itself within different countries and also kind of so many but after confusing i started studying in germany and it's like, i spend more time in africa and i've been to jews, whatever, learning germany like technique i do is english and set to use. yeah. now, that's why even i work for zillow quoting for fusion cruise in like is a bridge of different cruising african dusso calls his signature dish home that

a calendar recreation that reflects his personal journey across africa and to europe. what goes into it often changes depending on his location. today, he makes it using various african mango varieties fish of a caught a cream, and an unusual but beautiful assortment of toppings and seasonings. homeland is like the fruits. it can happen, like uh, most of the people have room like mingled 3 or 4 cato liking for our menus. today we try to mix both mangle and definitely cato and of so we have uh fix and uh we have uh some cream off um advocate oh and some available for all kinds of crazy. so now we have a, we have plenty mengel good to meet with them. and uh, we will need the full cream of okay. do you think the lim, wanting to handle the

end of so with a the the 10 of mingle, a mingled not to the end of so we have a some could come by we my native question suits the so and we a delete that off for a couple of chino flowers and now we have our fish. so the fish we might need to do for like 3 hours before we got the ginger audience. and so on the top, we have uh, some of the convers he's astray, spices. so is he not we start with do i own

youngs and to finish in some of able flowers to give the beauty. so this issue according to homeland it's time to get moving to some beads as we visit calvin jones in berlin and find out more about his journey to success. his be good right under your skin. symbolic way, musician kelvin jones has a cheap world wide start them. now people recognize him on the street. just like here in berlin. but that wasn't always the case. as a child, she felt like he didn't belong. the times where i felt really like alone was scared,

was actually those moments at school. i was the only black kid in school like in the whole school there was know are the black kids and my english wasn't so good. it was a crazy, difficult time. the 1st i think 3 years or something at that. his real name is to nashua pony. he was born in zimbabwe in 1995. his family moved to london suburb when he was 9. his new life was anything, was easy and he changed school several times. but this was also the time when he discovered music, as a way of expressing his emotions and fears. when i play music, i sort of understand the colors within the sound. i don't know how to explain that, but i understand that's way better than i do. woods and i feel like i can express myself. this quote means more to me, but any word,

but i could find got those. uh so, and so my, so with this 2014, call him home, coven jones, achieve something. how much musicians? good. why? i can only dream about a month. i spent posted this on online and it went viral. reaching the years of millions of people. i think will forever be the craziest night of my life. it completely changed my life and i couldn't. i couldn't take it and, you know, it was too big of moments to really understand my phone was non stop, just going crazy for about the whole week. he moved to berlin in 2016 since then. he's released 2 albums with highly personal tracts. like probably a little less. you know that the, you know, it days the musician feels pretty settled in the german capital, the but when it comes to national

identity and bought ways, the only country for kelvin jones, that's where his roots are to single carry you isn't. oh, much to his homeland. the video of features is friends and family. terry use the 1st time that i go this involved with into a song like i tried so many times and it was never organic, it never made sense. it was fake. and i have my gets all ones and i was like, hm, hold on for me darling. when your love is running low and there was something about this darling, that felt really like i could hear these harmonies already. i was like, all of this is got something very, isn't baldwin about it. so i chased it. things to is music. kelvin jones is now able to feel at home wherever he is, to the delight of his friends around the world. that's all we have time for today. it gets us on d. w dot com, forward slash at the max levels. so makes times thanks

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