is to bring use a story behind the news. we rule about unbiased information for free by the white us something that happened a 140 years ago. still matter to you today on the 77 percent, we explore how and event that divided up africa and took started. colonialism remains relevant today. welcome to the show. i am your host ok to english level coming up on the show in pennsylvania, we need students to feel what they learn about colonial history at school and can yeah, the performer community still waiting for the return of a sick with drugs but was stolen by the bridges and the mayor of free telling me, sees the german as the comprise for commitment to the sample. or

have you ever looked at a map of africa and notice how straight the borders of some countries all the might be a for example, where i'm from. looks like it was drawn up with a ruler. that's because over a century ago, powerful world leaders met up in germany to shape the future of africa by selecting territories to establish the colonial borders that we know today. for a quick refresher, my colleague victor pen, well, it takes us through the berlin conference. did you it timeframes. got to please almost 140 years ago. change defeats of the actually gun sentiments in november of 18 each for a few of the was most possibly does. guys are going to jump on still for you to bring in timeframe. so let's take a look at what really happened and why that happened. during the age and seventy's an urgent need. some eighty's conditions, such as greek routine from the gemini,

began to teach, actually gospel metro associates to green bay industrial sectors, as well as a professional. my kids for the good these factories produce the political experience of markets because i marks for you down competition for tape in africa. the outcome of the median has impacted you. in more we started kind of imagine here a hype key took you, is that you need to know their burden, comprehensive estimates for it to it's 5 was initially set by jump on johnson low, low to of on this mark. the idea was to, to dispute in between the video so you can pause, we're fine for interest in africa, and those avoid the walk which was attended by 15. you can countries, the us and the ottoman empire at that time. these great conference that gave the democratic republic of claims as a private key to the bill, john jean, the you can tell us identified zones amongst themselves based on your individual interest and proceeds on these eventually led to the division of the african

continent, variable desk that exists 2 dates. the conference did have one plus feed out it finally 4 beat slipped feet in africa. that'd be gone. indicate 15th century. now a big point from what we just heard is that the berlin conference was a scramble for africa and its resources. but imagine coming into an area where people have already settled and wanting to land or forcing them into hard labor. colonial forces face mess of resistance. you may have heard of the hetero number genocide in the media or the my g, margie rebellion intends on. yeah. but how much of this history is taught in schools for this week, special debate and money henrich is in doris. allow me to explore this very question. let's take a look. hello

everyone, and welcome to 77 percent special debate. and today we're here in terms of the a direct dilemma, this group comp us together with student and historical express. we want to explore how much the history, particularly colonial history, see as much as to date, to kick off this discussion. i'm posing this question to the students when to do 1st time, then about that island, the history of calling the reason for my grandparents my grandfather, my grandmother. i was excited to learn more about how to make one further up to the active being achieved in my hand guy the and 2 together region in june be so i was actually more interested in learning more of the tactics and leadership skills are used in class we so we touched on it, but it's very basic knowledge that we learned about it when we do learn it, it's not very representative of the whole globe. and it doesn't really talk about how other countries, especially countries in africa have undergone or how experiences were altered for everyone who actually discussed the same topic with the students in the school in

don't mind. and they recorded some questions for all of you guys. so come close that to me so that you can see the question my question for you guys is whether you guys learned about client isn't in class or how much more you're informed then us or maybe even just my class. yes. so my question to you guys would be, how you feel about germany? since i know germany did not do nice things in the corner this so the 1st question was, how much do you learn about history in your classes? are previous history. teacher went out of his way to actually teach us about colonialism about the german colonialism and those that actually actually the only way that i learned about it. and the 2 most significant things that we learned to was in your 6 when we went to the bottom royal slave trade place and out and in your a to in the, went to kill a k, c one e, where it was mostly the arabic slave trading what was to

a feeling of the hearing that i was actually quite shocked because i didn't i had no clue about that before. as i thought terms in the i was just like, completely independent or so it was just before that it was just like a whole african tribes united. we went on the textbook like was this literacy is talking about colonialism. but we also went out of the textbook like, what are the students opinion, how do you see the amount of colonial these and how do you take it as personal? like? do you see there's any current relationship between the, those years of colonialism and this is our current life we thought colonial is so the 2nd question was about, how do you guys feel about deadline? is because the student feel like a gentleman didn't do anything good. they were harsh, so they killed a lot of people and like they, they fought, you know, like rebellions like monday, monday, a 1000000 like a machinery. so like people should like. so it was very hush hush

. okay. i see the hand here. although jeremy do a lot of bad stuff, i quite enjoy the country. i think they are very, very interesting country. and i think they still have a big impact in terms of near right now. for me, it was a bit challenging. learning about cooling isn't because i'm from both background german and offer tense and it's hard to believe that your own people could do that to your other culture in the way. and so it was kind of difficult, grew up. thank you so much, remy. you are the cultural curator. yeah. and you walk around the block in a week on history, and you was born in pennsylvania buckley to own, grew up in germany. how do you feel like to have like the rich nor it's around these? he story of 2 countries. i'm a big with a with, with the confused, but you're working on healing and growing. and just educating more people about colonialism. a lot of our history was res, so a lot of us is, feels very difficult to step into. i want to say the proud african sierra and step

into the story and like the resistor and at the same time was an extreme gap of knowledge. read this was knowledge kept things, we just don't know because they were in griffin or they were taken to germany like skulls and all the information's diaries. we don't have so much of that intense and am i think there's still a discrepancy and the gap of like, who benefits from different things which we called post colonial effects. like after colonialism, what happens, but then there's also the emotional effect of like, what happened to my ancestry, where as the remains of our grandparents and how can i step into myself. we know there was in qual, uh he did a b, c, d, but do we know um his emotions he says, day to day activities. um what he felt, what he went through, maybe personal relationship with his wife with these kids. we don't know that because we lend them like fictional characters. so i was, i was, it was the to,

i wanted to bring forth stories of women which are very much on told basically. but i also wanted to bring out the stories that people can relates. they can, they can see the mentor processing of these people and how, what's broach then was filaments, both of them to become who they well, because most of that has men. we see men of saves most of the time. and there is none, especially in to that we have none of that's thank you so much intense. and yet we have lead to dunc a who was to at least how history has been hit and told to different generation and we have the video about. so let's watch it. you take it down, go was a spiritual leader from the near total people and thinking that north central attends on you. she was born in the 1816 to a family of traditional. she knows, it is said that she could predict the future. german forces came into her region in 191 as they tried to expand authority over their colonial kings. to take hold on

her people to resist the german colonial rule. when the germans got wind up the resistance, we had to put down the ticket done. got you set to have use base to protect people and come to the germans advanced weapons, hence a name, queen of the peace, according to oral tradition politic, you've done some of these use to district german forces after which local fighters would attempt in local folk, lo, and songs and the ticket, duncan's power over the beast, was ruined by an informant. her best friend in an act of betrayal, lead ticket down go, was captured by german authorities with help from rival, collaborate as she was beheaded in his call and magically taken to germany. today she still remembered intense. i'm in foreclosure as a career just by to and the fee and this woman. how do you guys feel about the video after watching the video is always super excited cuz of this thing. first, it was a woman close. we don't actually hear more about women, but in that video,

it gave me a sense they also women were involved in fighting full independence during the time of colonialism. i feel like it's a repeated history because a lot of chips also happen to have the same kind of past that they were resisting or so, and i got into a hiding. and the funds would betray them because of bribery and stuff like that. and i just feel like at some point, it's a reason as to why independence was a bit late, most of history's mass, right? so like it's trying to shape like a different side of the storage and sometimes hidden in many parts of like africa and, and also world history live in den, just affect men affected women and several children as well. and these tories are not being shared out. no one is taking into consideration devona bertie and impressions they have faced in their life. and i think a lot more like needs to be signed onto that. what do you think should be done to make sure that the young generation equipped to with much knowledge currently not

only in pens in in but also in germany. we don't colonialism is not a main factor. so in terms of media is as it's private schools or government schools, we often learn from the british era. and then even our curriculum after independence is mostly british focused. so there's a lot of need to involve historians and other pedagogical forms to coal, right. and pedagogy, cub looks really do you think this history shapes the 2 days will do all future in any way? yes, of course it shapes and we were talking about races and the facts, how we think about ourselves and about how either think of us. so, which also means is a big chance to teach shape the right to empower young humans to learn more. i believe that having different stories, they're not just focus from the west and also are told from an african viewpoint is

very important, which we can see throughout clena zation is lacking. whereby most of the evidence is recorded by the western world, and it isn't very accurate for a lot of us. they generally like young people, i don't know myself, i don't my cultural was and they explain to me all told to me because i needed to learn like language just like english. so i can be able to survive in society today . but generally, so he, these are important like language for us is what's build since preserves our culture and all of its being taken away on work, keep forgetting about it. so let's go back to ones where you are, but to keep changing. thank you so much for watching and i am remind her rick from the side of the. c very good point to raise in that the bait history should be taught in the language you understand. and also from an african perspective, we have

a lot more debates or not 77 percent in youtube channel. so be sure to check it out . now i have a question for you. how does colonialism affect you would love to hear your thoughts on social media platforms. but for a start we us young people in that maybe a, a nature. yeah, that's very question. it's a junk. but some of us do some home uh, 10 percent of pick the site to community. in fact, there seems our line is between big ideas dates between the white and black simply means that the moving around the 20 minutes late, maybe they should just blow it is a call on the on demand. different, as i do not think was the same as it was making the data, but we suffer from something like certain things on fee not his connections might not get a show. it was brought to be shown as one of decided bunting

degree. shall we well know united put on his in vehicle said saint flint to start from what heightened the lease. uh we should that's already been done. well the 2nd 3 basically. if i just looked at me for see what do you mean fluid in education? if we went school in ice from then we would still be living and we, we used to be, we get a community like the other they both now everybody's car shows up. get back. yeah. unable every you got is that you through that to get an is big like what is now i'm not going to blame the couldn't now, must cause any more because we all put on insurance and countries. levels have been pretty nice and they've actually done reporting sales. i think be responsible for what we do right now. i mean to this quantity one does not responsible for gravy. all right, no, not the committee. now, most of that is definitely food plus spot. can we blame colonialism for the current state of countries or should that responsibility lie with our leaders as well?

in our next report, we explore how kenya's for coma community is still waiting for the return of a secret drum taken by british colonial offices over a 100 years ago. while it's stored in the archives of the british museum, the drums to hold significant power for this community. monrovia, zimbabwe, tens, every so often to these groups, into level on the banks of kansas, tennessee river. he belongs to the become a community, the grooves once. how's the performance the equipment guide you drum, which was stolen by british colonial offices over 100 years ago. in the past, the eldest would had been kaji in a place like vc. it was a secret place in the forest in height, but not events moisture. trent could find their way here. how you put the drum or gag was once we via does it for comb with center of solving power. it determined there we of life as

the without it, the groove is no longer a secret, and the problem was governing council to reach manuel he belongs, has lost most of its authority. elders like one where we have vivid memories of the colonial period. but they were too young to have set eyes on the drum themselves. after taking ven, guide you from the per como. it was shipped abroad and kept in storage in london's british museum. the book home was king michael rodney, i'm gonna go so the 7th and the elders and his kingdom, i will read the drum will never return. then guide is like on this i need imagine if i had the missed of westminster. the problem in, in england, if i had the mis lang somewhere and they musing it does that would store what the it to me 2nd you need yes to them. it's,

this isn't a drum on savages, but wait. it is a beautiful piece, which is not always beautiful, but the types of names. it has some functions. why should do denied an object? it's functions like for coma. many communities across the applicant, continental demanding for the return of the salon, the cultural feeling, kenya's, national museum and exhibition is taking place in visible inventories is questioning the results of the objects at the slight visual for the sex present is like these empty boxes because like when you go to a museum, you don't expect to see him to cases. the missing objects include items such as

mass shields, smoking times coons, great markets to drums, construct lines on you know, being visible, inventories program recorded like 52000 missing object plan was to create a database of canyon objects that are spread out across these cultural institutions . across the world, because because can yet as in no way to object sign what the we decided to visualize every object as a shipping label. because for us, every object that left was shipped out, right. and honestly, we've covered on the walls, but this is only like 2000 the british museum has one of the largest collections in the world of cultural artifacts, given the breast of its colonial empire. while other former colonial powers have already begun the process of retaining looted as effects, britain still dragging these all these beautiful se,

laws against mental objects, which is really strange that you know, you take objects from people and then you create laws to prevent them going back so now it's, it's, it's really going to the tunnel objects which was mostly legal to take them right. michael run almost king recently got communication from the british museum that they would like to talk a huge step forward from when he 1st lots to the initial request. his community, which numbers, roughly 200000 live in one of the porous regions of kenya. many no longer adhere to the old traditions in question, the renaissance of the drum to day. yet macaroni remained adamant about its importance. it is really a very important sent a photo of people. but in the museum, it's just on a moment of attraction. here it is bound to that life of all these he did, he prepared. this is our property. if he basically, i can,

and then it can be tons to a single note bank for somebody heidi's low food that didn't really tons of it or less the king michael rodney manuel e, as in bob, a post a with a return to the old days will not be obvious, but sitting here under the lush mangled trees by the tennessee river, the hopeful that the society, distinct identity will one day be resurrected an era to become a little ones proud on. now and that's dwelling on the past. oh and makes report takes us to the present. and one woman's vision for the future. i'm talking about a born a kasanya, the may or feet out in syria. neal, she has just been awarded this you as i think a price for our efforts to improve society. take a look. this is free town. the capital of sierra leone. since 2018, the city is run by may

a yvonne actually so yeah. i grew up in a city that was green. i grew up in this city where like i said, i left, i'm trees. i mean, i was doing that since i was this high. and i love nature. and seeing that being destroyed and seeing the challenges with sanitation that were around a you know, in 20172018. those are factors that push me that on. yeah, that made me do to make a decision to, to run for office after meeting with some of presidents, if the recovery team actually so get into politics and one of the mayoral election in 2018 advocating for a transform fee ton agenda. and business plans address waste management and aimed to restore 3 towns green hills through tree planting. obviously it was committed to protecting the environment and

once future generations to experience the green, freetown of her childhood, the weight 25 whatever she does, yvonne q, sorry, i wasn't able to citizens of q town and had decision making this type of government has until a claim but locally and nationally solidifying legacy and impact the re to growth of the population diversity. the lack of timing um you know, challenges around the way the building permit thing is done at a centralized level. has meant that in spite of 5 years of hardware, we still see that there's more that we can do there. 2 things that i would definitely say will always stick out for me as like as these of being the mayor.

free town one. not surprising, free town to, to town. you know, our decision and commitment target to plan civilian cheese. the 2nd would be interesting, lee, because lots manage what the mayor has prioritized, clean, such as the economy initiatives to address local challenges. then you plot the process is ways to bring it into kaufman. this cooking briquettes offers an alternative to the widely used chocolate brick hips and the city the tree. see plants help with use the temperature and make the city more resilient to flooding and drugs. and it's not just about the fact that these environmental issues are there. you've made a huge progress. it's also about the fact that the people of the cities lines are negatively impacted by the fact the time of change is competing. temperatures are rising, sea levels are rising extra weather patterns are becoming more common. if you don't

care who gets the credit, you're more likely to get things done. we want the work to be done for the people of free town. it doesn't need to have our name on it. it just needs to be done. at least this wish won't come true despite it's not wanting any credit for what you've gone up to you. so yeah, one, the jim and africa prize 2024 for commitment and dedication to the people of his city. the is a big congratulations to evo, and i can show you as a wrap up the show. it's clear that the past due impacts both me and you, but it's great to see how learning our history can help us shape the future. let's continue the discussion on our social media pages. we always want to hear from you . i'll leave you with this inspirational from, from the one and only rocky. the only calls i've never bought down until next 5

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