the mapped out shows the geopolitical reality. the on the board is what makes things to the way they are mapped out, navigating a changing world. now on youtube, 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 that 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 whitfield. we'll see what a to look like, keeping up the pressure on kenya. and will need to stay for growth challenging called for non payment field.

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 lo, 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 this, the president. thank you so much for being here. thank you very much. let's go back

to the bi electronic exchange here. um, these exchanges, what dividends have they use that for the continents so far, especially in specific, you can speak to kenya as one of them is deputy men who just signed disagreement with look when and look sorry at 250000 job opportunities for young people from that is a bilateral agreement between germany and k. it is a win win. you know, they is a big lip lip, but deficit in germany, they is a big lip lip but also supply inc. and how do you the benefit, can you by giving them the opportunities in here on how do you remove that deficit here? by a liberating can you've seen that education from young people on the recent process? not the very most pleasing situation, any precedent or anything you know, 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 in kind of them is there to hold the police to account how far have you gone in realizing these, these a lot of progress that has been made. in fact, part of the launch or the cdns program, that island is possible responding to some of the issues that had been 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 is 43 jobs for our young people. the same reason why we are doing the digital nickel system because we just want to be dropped because automatically go back to the product that you have before we talk about it of job. since when does it, they put a swap out opportunities. 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 the influx suspended. that's what you said, the alternative. but then you made a promise. 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 the 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's happened since 2 months on the 2 months own back. you know, we just, i just assemble the new government. they are working on the nuts and bolts to make sure that we get there. i am responding to the issues raised about opportunities, and that is why i'm telling you we definitely are going to before i came to this city at 200000, joel shortens is that they, they would see as an option. they, they, they roll out of the programs, stuff out there and put your information. much of the protest was fueled by stick news and majority of this information and missed information. all these, these ducks about dogs or these,

these talks about the slog about this. i'm the one with that, you know, ultimately when people realize that what was being used to drive the negativity, how do i wonder, the finance being, why actually issues that why not in the independent was that why you said that the criminals and people involved intrigues and of course there was criminals involved . i mean the people who button down 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 that buttoned down a building? we didn't say that the extra ins that was seen on ground, aggravated the situation in a way that the young people had to also retire to stand their ground. do you agree that the people who bundle in building sacramento? i do not condone violence, mr. president, but the suspect and the commanding chief here and you're also in the chat with the national security kind of a minute, hold the guns so you have to pull the guns. let me tell you that the police have a responsibility to protect both of the protest us on innocent citizens and

property and life. and that's what they must do. it is a delicate balance, but it must be done. 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 their rights. and this thing is from the government. even highlighting pharmacists made by been vice president bhutto in 2017, in 6 months time, the federal income reading in westport, which is historic, wouldn't be complete in 6 months time. this, did you income money? which is this coding? will it be complete? this as social media activist, a lawyer or occupy so between the 9 year old has made it his business to follow up

on government funded projects, check the progress. and in some cases, it may have been started a full a visit, or that has been launched by the president william router twice this order. suppose suppose 4400000000, i believe, is his civic duty to keep the mazda same form. so he visit the projects and then posts. his findings on social media is become so popular that kingdoms right to came, telling him to visit products in the area. and you mean to make money for his trouble? what he finds stalled or encompass projects like this bridge with delta read 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 uh there's absolutely no pressure that i started. it started the test stalled, it installed, it is completed with the pool, workmanship or uh, embezzlement of public funds. sue to the top and holding political saw speakers

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 that is festival store projects of opinions to, to the streets in june. his hope to keep the momentum going, walk, 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 on need is a comfortable for the promises they make. access to information is a powerful tool for change. and then this makes straight to be also held at the book of us and 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 part in the country for this year is kenya. and that is why the model of this year's festivities is the swahili words mod. yeah. which means together, and i am here with young africans, we're going to talk about how we can create a good communication environment. so the 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 talk to, while i'm say, social media, social activism accidentally walks. it's very important to let people know out there that it's really walks. it has 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 because like i said 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 you just told us? i mean, i agree with the head that it's not just importance 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 ways 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 sits in government. so it's important to actually gets credible with that. but these are credible information sources that can tell you that this is why we approach this, then these are the reasons you mentioned, the credible sources, that what would be an example from dana?

i get most of my information from twitter and this accounts called the flex tech guy, which basically what most of the people i for the most about 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 campaign event or a riley or there's a press briefing, basically people just see when this person said this is a true and nothing can be mentioned about accounts and see if these fact take the fact ticket for us. and then they have a website, so you can go and under pvc claims by so so and so a person and then to give a video to it that is 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 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

. you're a tech entrepreneur and we saw that the purpose in kenya, they really have some ripple effects in other countries in uganda. in nigeria, young people taking to the streets to protest different issues. it was all quiet in zimbabwe yet, so it's definitely not all rosy. is you say, historically there's 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 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 tied on twitter, and young people who would actually like,

participate more in these debates through these independent sources. ok, 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 kenyans? of course, it's the easiest way to have not because most young people own social media. are there other ways in which to be a 150 for a spot very 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 found people out that still in the village, just because not everyone who systems on social media, but everyone has access to maybe to data and all of 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 while yes me 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 of 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 send but fi 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 going in to it. so for instance, is inspired by mederien. so it's all because we see the techniques they use, the kind of strategies they use. wendy are organizing very recently from the canyon

process, we've seen examples of how young people have mobilize how they've used it. as soon as i touch the dp 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 generates 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 to an 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 happen 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, due to now participating, something in kenya wasn't on the van people actually, they were diverse kinds of professionals lead totally feeding into that demonstration. so they were dropped off coming out of the out there. so that in

case of anything valid, is 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 it 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 as 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 to but the faith is 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. get quiet in johannesburg is 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. and that's why, because this is the am lonzey gay quiet in your hands, big being a musician of being an artist is a fullness that susan only is about to convince housing. people it's always about

change. making to play is are a popular part of south african culture, but why have church has proven to be challenging spaces for these things? the sense that the only piece, of course that, that we have is within themselves that the 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, and the in the same space. and we share this common sense. who is the old enough to music in that space? made me feel like i was at home but how to use some of the other members to see that send you the choir made me realize that i can be myself without even thinking what other people was going to say about mine and securely to myself or how i knew she was the blessing to be part of the quiet,

sweet face settings is sweet phase judgment and being part of the choir, we built to this safe space the as the leader of the monthly gay, quite a few grew up in quite too much a township, east of johannesburg, with musicians, phones save us. but what was the use? 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 food. 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 a in 2008 a fix?

yeah. as it came out and was a crib pressed in that story attached to the internet 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 the 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 viper and streets of these above out with a if you can skate to girls submitting themselves in the skating community. seem to skilled people when your social or perhaps even on the streets of others. the, the if you can go k to dressed and that's additional year behind chemist at least

skills or on a mission to change the image. it's amazing. we need to 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 into a kit. she's been on the board for 9 years and she remembers a time when she was the only gone 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, well, we push each other and then we still do that so i like that. do i saw a skateboard like that? the boys were like security and was fun in 2019 so seen a found a pin golf k to well that's what was the easy part convincing of the 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 kind of willie. but whenever the boys are like trying to approach them with the keyboard, they kind of not okay. sounds 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 and 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 it's a state one day i so voice kidding around and i want to join them and ask them about skating. and they told me there is a session for girls. so leave on saturday, was 120 actually members, and 45000 photos and instagram. you'll be in golf, kato, have made a name for themselves. and while this pulls that 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 said, you have to not give up on skating. so he called me fish, as he can see this 1st of c not casing 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 seem to believe that just leave a few train 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 rebel is to do something crazy, is to do something for others. so you know what our parents is gonna say something. everybody is going to say something until they so successful. so we

should do it anyways. and while they see open gals, kate does our new on the scene that 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 even the long board staffing freeze felt well championed chairs for me. and until next time the news

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