is going to be funded here repos every weekend on d w the over the past months we've had all eyes on euclid protests in kenya and seeing youth raising their voices across the continent. and today we wanted to meet some of these people and discuss the issues you're addressing. welcome to the 77 percent . i'm your host. ok to english not. so here's what we've got. first, an exclusive interview with k as president william till the pro fee. why active us like keeping up the pressure on kenya? and will need to stay for growth challenging call to noise,

tennessee. ok. but we'll start here in germany. africa was the spotlight of the book, assess or citizen festival held by germany's president every year. the event even came with a special guest, kenyon, president, william, brutal, my colleague, 5 to any come law. she got an exclusive interview with a kenyan president, diving into the court issues. the kenyans want to know. but 1st we give you a glimpse of the behind the scenes for to over to you. the good afternoon mister president. thank you so much for being here. thank you 15. so

let's go back to the by electrodes exchange here. um, these exchanges what dividends have they used that for the continents so far, especially in specific, you can speak to kenya. one of them is documented with defined disagreement. we look when and look sorry at 250000 job opportunities for young people from k, that is a bilateral agreement between germany and k. it. it is a win win. you know, these a big live butler but the pacific in germany. these a big lip lip out of a supply inc. and how do you a benefit can by giving them the opportunities in here on how do you remove the deficit here by a liberating can you've seen the education from young people on the recent process? not the very most pleasing situation, any president or any leader would obviously want, and young people are clearly not happy with this situation as well. and of course,

over 20 people died 300 more in judge you promised to give these families some explanation. you also said that you will support the in judge and that, and the kind of thing is that to hold the police to account how far have you gone in realizing these days a lot of progress that has been made. in fact, part of the launch or that it's cdns program that i learned is possible responding to some of the issues that are being raised about jobs. the reason why i'm in germany is because of the same reason around jobs for our young people. the same way we have a housing program for supporting 2 jobs for the young people. the same reason why we are doing the digital nicholas is the because we just want to be dropped because ultimately go back to the product that you have before we talk about it of jobs, things like that. they put the swap out or put unity. that's why i'm saying, but they also do not want to tax hikes and which also bring me back to the question of that. how do you in fact suspended? that's what you said. the alternative. but then you made a problem is we knew apology on extra these young people that you would ensure that

it doesn't happen again. and these families will be given an explanation. absolutely. so the president taking responsibility for what happened to the absolutely, my government has dipped for what to say. we have them to support the families that lost their loved ones. we're working on them. they kind of thing to make sure that, that happens this 2 months on the 2 months own, but, you know, we just, i just as simple a new government, they are working on the nuts and bolts to make sure that we get there. i am responding to the issues raised to multiple fraternities, and that is why i'm telling you we're just going to before i came to this city, up to 100000 job program that we support to young people that are coming from vulnerable nevo. even as we respond to climate action plan, climate change, that is the essence of why we have us trained economy. we have a straight economy because of climate change. switching from drought to flags and using our resources instead of developing us social sec die instead of being odd

that we are now focused on managing. they fix of climate change, and that is the reason why it has to be always the balance between what you're doing for the great amount and what you're doing to manage the crisis. i'm glad that you said you are walking deposit to make sure that these people are given an explanation for the debts as well. and i'm sure you also know that the people who want you to terminate your social contract, the people who went out to the street stunting, who to my school no longer appreciate. now what's from presidents? what is the insurance to these people? shortens is that they, they would see as the, not you, they, they, they roll out of the programs that are out there and put your information. much of the protest was fueled by fixing use and majority of this information and missed information. all these dis, ducks about dogs or these, these ducks about the slot,

about that. and then one of their, you know, ultimately when people realize that what was being used to drive them, they've got the router defined on speed. why actually issues that, why not in the independent was that why you said the criminals and people involved entries? and of course their walk criminal was involved. i mean the people to bundle in parliament, the people who buttoned down people's businesses. why would you call those people, but the price protests, us and how we, how does a beautiful protest up button down a building? we didn't say that the actions that we have seen on ground aggravated the situation in a way that the young people have to also retire just on the ground. do you agree that the people who bundle in building sacramento? i do not condone violence, mister president, but the fact i'm the combined energies here and you also get you out of the national security kind of a minute. hold the guns, you have to pull it up on. let me tell you that the police have a responsibility to protect both of the protest, us an innocent citizen and property and life. and that's what they must do,

which is a delicate balance. but it must be that we hope to see a positive outlook for the african continent is the president. thank you very much so much for your time. thank you. thank you. i. so you can watch that full interview on the, the, the news youtube channel. trust me, it is worth it. we have seen many african leaders promised a lot during election, but who reminds them of those promises? well, a kenyan lawyer has taken up the task using social media. he's educating kenyans on your rights and the fee is from the government. even highlighting pharmacist made by ben, vice president bhutto in 2017. in 6 months time, the federal income reading in westborough court would use his story. would it be complete? in 6 months time? this did you income at any, which is this clinic? will it be complete? this is social media activist and lawyer laura capacity between the 9 year old has

made it his business to follow up on government funded projects. check their progress. i mean, some cases, if they have been started a full, a digital has been launched by the president william router twice this order supposed to cost 4400000000, i believe, is his civic duty to keep the mazda seen for him. so he visits the projects and then posts. his findings on social media is become so popular that kenyans right to came, telling him to visit projects in the area. and you're going to make money for his trouble. what he finds stalled or encompass politics like this, bridge with delta read it attract as i've already been paid money and there's no value for that to money. he does say that being lost through corruption or there's absolutely no problem with that. i started, it started, he just told you this story. it is completed with the blow up money shift or uh, embezzlement of public funds. sue to the top and holding political style spaces

from carlos. laura and his crew of women's here lawyer and civil engineers have made the point of mimicking the politicians while informing the public about the issues of ton. daniels do not vote or, or have not what did in previous elections, on the basis of issues they've been working on issues of this bus. i'm comfortable, my tribe. this one comes from my club and that has given the west quality of lead us available for our stuff at assess will start projects of opinions to, to the streets in june. his hope to keep the momentum going. wall calling them government to work for people. absolutely. this is a great reminder that a civic duty doesn't end at the ballot box. even off the elections, we must stay engaged and hold. oh indeed is accountable for the promises they make . access to information is a powerful tool for change. and then this week street debate also held at the book office in berlin. my colleague lou show dives deep with 3 young africans,

exploring how more we can unite to build a better more inclusive society. the today is the citizens festival. the partner country for this year is kenya. and that is why the model of this year is festivities is the swahili words mod. yeah. which means together. and i am here with young africans who are going to talk about how we can create a good communication environment so that young africans can feel like be a part of shaping the society and shaping democracies. all right, we're going to jump right into it. mercy, i want to start with you because you are from kenya and we all witnessed the protest. the us led protests that were happening and can you hold on say, social media, social activism accidentally walks. it's very important to let people know out there that it really walks you as walked past few months. it was, but it's important that the young people have the right information understand. so

they need to stay informed with accurate information information that is very objective. so you're saying that they're not only about going out there and raising a voice, but also having the accurate information just to say tony, i want to bring you into the conversation. what do you say about what she just told us? i mean, i agree with her that it's not just important to show up in your numbers, but to show up with the rights information. because sometimes it's um, information is what's as powerful knowing the rights we use to tackle the issues. because the problem i can speak from a guy in perspective is that we have a lots of partisan politics. so it's very difficult to know what's actually accurate. and what's his propaganda or the information from the of us that trying to sign is the image of the system government. so it's important to actually gets credible with it. but these are credible information sources that can tell you that this is why we are process, then these are the reasons you mentioned in the credible sources. that what would be an example from gonna get most of my information from twitter and this accounts

called the fucked tech guy, which basically what most of the people i, for the most of the sweets i see is if there's a, there's a, there's an election in gun in december. so when there's a come paying the van to a riley or there's a press briefing. basically, people just see when this person said this is a true and nothing to be mentioned about accounts and see if these fact take the fact ticket for us and then be have a website. so you can go in under paid dc claims by so so and so a person and then to give a video to it if it's actually true or false with the dates of the box, it's all the documents from maybe the parliament of the reports that speaks about the issue, then they tell you that based on this and that's, it is actually the fault. and sometimes that the false and use is based on the truth. so it can be very easy to, to just spin. it's in a positive way. so i put the lie, the idea of having those back to the car is really, really help is really important. ok, i want to turn to use the now you are from is in bubble. you also study journalism,

your a tech on top in nor, and we saw that the protestant, kenya, they really have some ripple effects and other countries in uganda. in nigeria, young people taken to the streets to protest different issues. it was all quiet in by with that, so it's definitely not all rosy. is you say historically they've been a history of suppression of the voice of the people when they try to speak out to the authorities. and so young people, most of the times, you afraid to actually go to different platforms because these also start valence. and we've seen used to have some people also being jailed. however young people have also come up with like that independent media sources. because if we also have a huge role for one, state controlled media source for a very long time, but young people have come up with those platforms such as the last 263 tides on twitter, and young people who would actually like,

participate more in these debates through these independent sources. okay. i want to stay on the issue of social media mercy. of course you've raised that issue already before, but what i'm seeing, for example in kenya is that lots of politicians have been president tutor who was here in berlin. and he's very active on social media, can see him on take talk like his dad's big is visiting schools he's attending rallies. is that the only possibility of politicians to reach the young canyons? of course, it's the easiest way to have not because most young people on social media are there other ways in which to be convinced that people use blackberry in the village . and that's why i'm really saying that the young people shouldn't come out and be part of civic education, for example. so big hundreds band people out that the in the village, just because not everyone is systems on social media. but everyone has access to maybe to data and all that. so i feel like the vision find ways in which become involved the public. okay, but i want to stay on the issue of social media because a country like kenya is known for it's with a worry isn't i find it really interesting that we keep calling a twitter,

although it's excellent. but you have all these little worries and i know that lots of campaigns really have happened online and can yeah. so like where is the value of that kind of social media activism because the keyboard was yes. mm hm. in my country, i think i like that right now people i've even come out and then oh, going outside that really going down to face the issues. we've had many issues. you know, i don't to come to sheets, i'll say like we've had, that'd be some lot fight and one of the schools and we've had this keyboard right. as now stepping out of the social media network and going down there to actually do what we called. fact checking, he mentioned that tony, your inputs, please lots of the social activism on demand. so it's a, for instance, is inspired by mederien. so it's all because we see the techniques be used, the kind of strategies they use. my idea organizing very recently from the canyon

process, we've seen examples of how young people have mobilize, how they've used it tuesday to d p t to spread more information. they've built like custom made investments way. if you need information about this specific thing, you can just ask the top to bottom and it den rates it for you. so it's good to keep it's, it's view is very isolated when you look at these incidents. but because the internet and stuff and expansive space, you get the content from all of other content from all over the world. so it's important to see these of lending opportunities. and so when you see something happened in somebody doing just think, oh wow goodness i feel cool. you can now think, oh can that's less oh cool. maybe we can do this in gonna okay. so young people, if they wants to, you know, create a better tomorrow for themselves. what about them getting involved in politics very quickly. one thing like, as we mentioned before getting off at this point, something in kenya wasn't only the young people. actually they were diverse kinds of professionals, literally feeding into that demonstration. so they were doctors coming out of the

as out there so that in case of anything valid, is it it to give you good advice? i think it's important to see that all the you to be in every professional, everything globally is inside, relate to that and it was listening very intently. okay. you get the final words and what do you have to say? yeah. so i definitely agree with what they have to say. it's not about only getting into politics, but also from whatever profession that you are in to participate in the, in the debates in the, and also voice out the consent and keep the lead as a comfortable. so doesn't necessarily have to be on the young people who are involved or members of parliament because we do have youngs and bobbins as well. well, i like empties and they're also doing their best to work with the community. then listen to the challenges that come in to have. so i'm going to take that as the final word. my panel, you have been wonderful. thank you so much vanilla. thank you tony. thank you. mercy. and thank you to a wonderful audience for being with us and for participating in this very lively debate about how young africans can use communication and other tools to shape the

democracies into shape their societies. this was the street debate from berlin, germany. thank you so much for being part of the conversation. but the bait does not, and that will soon have a longer version available for you on our youtube channel. from hard politics. we now want to go over to the community level coming together as a community makes us stronger, but having a community is even more important when you need a safe space because of your sexual orientation. them's nancy. k. quiet in china is, but it's also a young south africans just that, wow, this quiet is raising its voice for change, as it not only serves as a home for talented musicians, but also provides a safe space and family for its members. why? because this is the am lonzey k quiet in your hands. big being a musician of being an artist is a fullness. it's susan only is about the content sizing people. it's always about

change. making to quiet is are a popular part of south african culture. but why have church has proven to be challenging spaces for these thing is the sense that the only piece, of course that, that we have is within themselves that they create community because most churches are not very welcome to us as a clear community. that's why i say never consented to ukiah, is that, that people like me, that people that will connect to that school like me, but the in the same space. and we share this common sense. who is the, the old enough to music in that space made me feel like i was at home. but how do some of it's other members to see if it's done? you have made me realize that i can be myself without even thinking what other people i'm going to say about mind securely to myself or how i it's

initiating the blessing to be part of the quiet 3 phase settings. is we phase judgment and being part of the choir. we built to this save space the as the leader of the implants, the gay choir, c, a, grew up in quite too much, a township. east of johannesburg. we musicians, phones save us. but what was see is families responds to these queer identity. i'm grateful for my family. they never made me feel inferior. so it only is very welcoming and accepting of who i was just spiteful and africa's constitutional protection of sexual orientation. hate crimes remain a harsh reality. how did the tragic murder of police being football a u. d. c. milan in 2008. a fix?

yeah. as it came and was a career pressed in that story, it's just doing it during a triggered a lot of emotions inside of me and gave me a purpose of the in the way that this struggle continues to 5. can see there's something magical about hearing people sing straight from the heart. absolutely. beautiful. to back in high school. i was part of the choir and while that was lovely there's still one thing i wish i got a chance to do skating. i actually fell off with state board in my friends living room once in our next report, we're taking you to the vibrant streets of these above out with a if you can skate to girls submitting themselves in the skating community. seem to skilled people when you're socials, or perhaps even on the streets of others there. but if you can go k to dressed in

the traditional year behind chemist at least skills or on a mission to change the image. it's amazingly native those we're how the show, we have a lot of cultures, norms and everything. but it's not that much inviting regarding to this kind of research to support that's 26. so see that china is one of the pony is a female teaching in cuba. she's been on the board for 9 years and she remembers a time when she was the only gun out boxes in me and my cousins like we used to some marcia of water bosses and i'm trying to sand on it and they're like, we pushed each other and then we still do that, so i like that. do i saw a square board like that? the boys were like security and was fun in 2019 so. so, you know, found a cute in golf k to but that's what was the easy part convincing of a golf to join. huh. was a bigger task when i asked the girls like whenever i asked, so you want to try this or blah, blah. they kinda willing but whenever the boys are like trying to approach them

with the escape or they kinda not. okay. so i was like maybe if i start teaching one of the girls, they be so happy. so whenever i go there, like i give them my skateboard, then i start bringing additional skateboards with me. gradually, a small group of like minded golf running around top and they started meeting up once a week. i get them on a social media. sometimes i watch them there and i was interesting to of the state one day i so voice kidneys around and i want to join them and ask them about skating. and they told me there is a solution for girls solely on saturday. was 120 actually members and 45000 photos and instagram young girls, kate does have made a name for themselves. and while the sports guide has most of their confidence, the support itself has also taught them a few last semester. to learn skating,

you have to sell so many times that you have to not give up on skating. so he called me fishes. he complete is processing that teaching has become more than just how passion it's become a mission, to build a community and create opportunities specifically for the women and go as well as society and their families might have been skeptical. the 12th. so sina believes that just means a few trained places like ha, to need to wait. we are us of like a daughter of a very rarely is a sisters. so apparently we should have to be a little bit of, you know, really very valid to do something crisis into something for others. so you know what our parents is gonna say something. everybody's going to say something until they so successful. so we should do it anyways. and while they see open bells,

kate, does our new on the scene definitely wants to watch out for to and with that it's time to wrap up this week. so remember, we have more great stories on social media, so be sure to follow us fair. since i cannot get enough of the if you can skate the girls, we have put together a compilation of females status from across the continent. one of them is given the long boards that thanks, chris felt well champion chairs for me and until next time the news

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