joseph didn't either, so he and his wife moved to accra.is neighbors in the slum showed him how to make cooking pots out of scrap metal. now he and his family own their own home, so they no longer need to pay rent. but joseph doesn't want to work in the scrap yard forever. he dreams of going to university. joseph: it's education. whatever level you're at, you open your mind to the world and you're able to overcome challenges in life. education brightens your life. if you run a business, or anything else you do, you need to educate yourself to a certain level. you learn how to live. your life becomes somehow easier than if you were not educated. reporter: tomorrow, joseph kogo will return to his workshop at the e-waste scrap yard, a place often labeled as hell on earth. host: sticking to a vision and not losing hope -- that's key for the global shapers, too. young people, dedicateted to combining creative ideas and commitment to make lasting change. supported by the world economic forum, so far they've helped kids in colombia's poorest neigh

daniels signed in accra with trump. -- signed a nda.r breach of contract? i think the dam breached broke, burst, whatever expression you want. with the harvey weinstein thing. people said enough is enough, and people don't go along with it. they don't like fat cats hiding behind the law. giles, again, absolutely right. the climate for the oligarchs has changed hugely. hot, dirty monday, london and the place that it was once. let's finish with a picture of 20, who as the times told us, envisioned... —— twiggy. she has been named a game. i was trying to explain recently the importance of twiggy as a sort of cultural icon to my iii—year—old, who of course has grown up with many supermodels in her cultural upbringing. ijust supermodels in her cultural upbringing. i just checked supermodels in her cultural upbringing. ijust checked to her how different twiggy was, and you immediately rumoured what her real name is. congratulations, dame twiggy. 0r name is. congratulations, dame twiggy. or is it going to be dame lesley hornby. i do remember!

trokosi is illegal, and it is not often talked about in accra.ut to my surprise, richard tells me his own grandmother is living as a trokosi. this same system robbed me of my childhood. 20 years later, i am on a journey to understand what really happened. i was told i had to leave home, to go and live with my uncle. i was placed on the back of a motorbike. i didn't even know the driver. i thought it was the strong wind causing my tears, but i think i was actually crying, because i was being taken away from my family. and then i was left at a place i had never been before. i didn't even understand the language. they took away my clothes and wrapped me in a purple cloth. they even took away my name. how old is this girl? seven years old? do you know why you are here? in 1997 i was filmed by an american news crew at the place i was being held, a shrine run by a priest dictated to the worship of deities. i was labelled a trokosi, a ‘wife of the gods,‘ paying for a crime committed by a family member. do you miss your parents? yes. i rememberfeeling a

joseph didn't either so he and his wife moved to accra. his neighbors in the slum showed him out to make cooking pots out of scrap metal. now he and his family own their own home so they no longer need to pay rent. which shows it doesn't want to work in the scrapyard forever he dreams of going to university. because it's education whatever level you're at you open your mind to the world and you're able to overcome challenges in life education brightens your life if you want to business or anything else you do you need to educate yourself to a certain level you learn how to live your life become somehow easier than if you were not educated. you for. tomorrow chose of kogo richard and his workshop at the waste scrap yard a place often labeled as hell on earth. sticking to a vision and not losing hope that's key for the global shapers two young people dedicated to combining creative ideas and commitment to make lusting change supported by the world economic forum so far they've helped kids in colombia's poorest neighborhoods campaigned for af

this is where most of it arrives port in the capital accra as europeans prefer the breast of the chicken the leftovers end up here shipped in refrigerated containers half way around the world. on our way from the harbor we visit the cold stores that sell it they tell us they only stock what customers want and the local farms couldn't meet the rising demand. these boxes have just made the journey from the u.s. state of georgia where the modern chicken industry was born these are from the netherlands belgium more than they can get their hands on. this customer wants his chicken even cheaper florence forty cooma argues she wouldn't even make a profit that. way or. the u.s. and brazil have also discovered the market for surplus legs and wings but europe is the top exporter to africa last year the e.u. dumped one hundred thirty five thousand tons of frozen chicken on the gunmen market alone for prices below the cost of production the equivalent of one hundred twelve million birds an oversupply that gutted the domestic sector. this is the local competition and this is all the seen on court one

located on the outskirts of ghana's capital accra it's often called hell on earth is. toxic it's filthy and it stinks. every day terms of discarded electrical appliances cars and scrap metal and up here much of it comes from europe it all gets dismantled and then either broken down into roll materials are processed on the spot. jugs of cold or has a big job to do so he's making a mold out of sand. then he'll melt down an old engine part to pour into it to form a cooking pot. it takes time for the aluminum to melt. joseph kogo is happy with his work here. kogo says he can get his material supplies any time he needs them. when he's sold out he just goes out to get whatever goods he needs to start work again. he says that makes his work very easy for him. to short time later the potters don't have to deducting the cost of the material and rent for the workshop joseph earns around twenty gunnin c.d.'s for this medium sized pot the equivalent of three euros fifty he can afford to pay two employees. he's doing a thriving business as many others are you know. the waste dump o

republika has expanded to africa the first african about wraps up this weekend and gone as capital accra event to showcasing speakers innovators and digital activists from across the continent d.w. correspondent flourish to cuero has been following the event. i need bonnie's the founder of developers invoke it's a canadian tech startup to teach his african women about a new technologies and connect them to opportunities within the tech ecosystem. she's on the ground to promote her organization and africa's first republican across. five years knew was going to be as a people i mean you know. exposure and also increase in the next day and then also very importantly end up pushing d.c. showcase the way we're doing because of the guess more partnership of what she needs funding thanks indra. through putin to come across as bringing together tech startups innovators and speak from different fields across africa. i love this event if we could have more events like this across the continent i feel like we'd start the process of being gauging even like our all day does one change because it's no

tools to see how do we solve practical problems again like i said before correspondent joining us from accraghana thank you. it's no coincidence that republican is being held in ghana the country happens to have a thriving startup scene in our next report we meet a young creators of a product designed to spark children's interest into phonology and science. commands start up text make science kits for schools for the components are made here in ghana second largest city. sets a design to inspire the next generation of engineers and programmers. here at the science sets and. as we package and its last new friend. mr winter's home town with a bunch of. and for processing resistors and then we just taught the children how to build very simple safe kids and teach them the very simple laws of physics and it was exciting what the students came up with at the university they came back showing us interesting sections that we had to build useful things that they had built for their rooms and their houses and we figured hey why not. make this something that can be accessed by all. this private school

this is where most of it arrives port in the capital accra as europeans prefer the breast of the chicken the leftovers end up here shipped in refrigerated containers halfway around the world. on our way from the harbor we visit the cold stores that sell that they tell us they only stock what customers want and the local farms couldn't meet the rising demand. these boxes have just made the journey from the u.s. state of georgia where the modern chicken industry was born these are from the netherlands belgium more than they can get their hands on. this customer wants his chicken even cheaper florence forty cooma she wouldn't even make a profit. with. the u.s. and brazil have also discovered the market for surplus legs and wings but europe is the top exporter to africa last year the e.u. dumped one hundred thirty five thousand tonnes. frozen chicken on the market alone for prices below the cost of production the equivalent of one hundred twelve million birds an oversupply that gutted the domestic sector. this is the local competition and this is overseen alan kohler one of ghana's last farm

we spoke to african football writer gary al smith who was one of the journalists at the meeting in accra he said cameron of fallen victim to the expansion of the tournament from sixteen to twenty four teams also want to come in and state television on the live stream on you see you in the you know in the our announcement was given and he hits the streets and it was absolutely must see disappointment on the streets of commerce let's not forget that this is a country that hosted the twenty sixteen women's african cup of nation and it's the biggest and the best anybody has seen in africa i mean you have to pull away coming from western europe and the way saying that they wished western europe would get such a reception for a woman's african cup of nations ok might do what they could do it would do for the african cup for many i don't think that they thought they could lose it anyway i think that they genuinely thought they could be given time to finish it because those. we have to be honest and say that things have been a bit unfair to come aaron because when they won debate it was for a si

their midst not everyone is thrilled by their new neighbors so joining us to talk about all of this in accra ghana. she's a marketing and media consultant she also made the documentary film blacks it about the migration of african americans in capetown south africa. he's an anthropologist and social literacy consultant and kaylin read into she's a journalist and editor of the website african american in africa and here in our studio there a writer and journalist focusing on race culture and politics in the united states welcome to the stream everyone so this is a conversation that is very hot for their audience they love this topic and so everyone was. to chime in with why people might want to move to the continent of africa this is just one of the tweets we got this is from edmund who says it's about identity events like the slave trade in the colonial rule almost wiped away that african identity and thank goodness people are once again asking deep questions about that identity so i want to go to you with that idea talking about the draw of what made you want to leave the u.s. and move to n

after touching down in the capital accra we head to the country's second largest city kumasi. thank you very much. unemployment in ghana is high after leaving school many young p. . people struggle to find a job. despite the mobile boom only about sixteen percent of people here have internet access to a lower rate than in kenya and rwanda. the digital divide between urban and rural young and old men and women is a chasm. in commodity we meet with george apia he's the founder of the hive which bills itself as a maker space for entrepreneurs the only one faced by working. we a company george to the outskirts of kumasi. divorcing in a crowd that kumasi is the real tech hub and gonna yes. of course is their dad makes its. because on the university. we had a spate of do it yourself because they. just started to condone history recently that she didn't want to do to themselves. because the clock was a classic but what may not be p.c. tech so warm a magazine is one of the west africa's largest informal industrial clusters that given the high unemployment rate people here have been fo

their midst not everyone is thrilled by their new neighbors so joining us to talk about all of this in accra ghana. she's a marketing and media consultant she also made the documentary film blacks it about the migration of african americans in cape town south africa. he's an anthropologist and social literacy consultant and kaylin read into she's a journalist and editor of the website african american in africa and here in our studio there a writer and journalist focusing on race culture and politics in the united states welcome to the stream to everyone so this is a conversely. and that is very hot for their audience they love this topic and so everyone wanted to chime in with why people might want to move to the continent of africa this is just one of the tweets we got this is from adman who says it's about identity events like the slave trade in the colonial rule almost wiped away that african identity and thank goodness people are once again asking these questions about that identity so kalan i want to go to you with that idea talking about the draw of what made you want to leave the u.s

their midst not everyone is thrilled by their new neighbors so joining us to talk about all of this in accra ghana. she's a marketing and media consultant she also made a documentary film blacks it about the migration of african americans in cape town south africa. he's an anthropologist and social literacy consultant and kaylin read she panda she's a journalist and editor of the website african american in africa and here in our studio there a writer and journalist focusing on race culture and politics in the united states welcome to the stream to everyone so this is a. conversation that is very hot for their audience they love this topic and so everyone wanted to chime in with why people might want to move to the continent of africa this is just one of the tweets we got this is from adman who says it's about identity events like the slave trade in the colonial rule almost wiped away that african identity and thank goodness people are once again asking these questions about that identity so kalan i want to go to you with that idea talking about the draw of what made you want to leave the u.

their midst not everyone is thrilled by their new neighbors so joining us to talk about all of this in accra ghana. she's a marketing and media consultant she also made the documentary film blacks it about the migration of african americans in capetown south africa. he's an anthropologist and social literacy consultant and kaylin reach into she's a journalist and editor of the website african american in africa and here in our studio there a writer and journalist focusing on race culture and politics in the united states welcome to the stream everyone so this is a conversation that is very hot for their audience they love this topic and so everyone wanted to chime in with why people might want to move to the continent of africa this is just one of the tweets we got this is from edmond who says it's about identity events like the slave trade in the colonial rule almost wiped away that african id. entity and thank goodness people are once again asking deep questions about that identity so kalan i want to go to you with that idea talking about the draw of what made you want to leave the us and

joseph didn't either so he and his wife moved to accra. his neighbors in the slum showed him out to make cooking pots out of scrap metal. now he and his family own their own home so they no longer need to pay rent. for joseph doesn't want to work in the scrapyard forever he dreams of going to university. because it's education whatever level you're at you open your mind to the world and you're able to overcome challenges in life. education brightens your life if you want to business or anything else you do you need to educate yourself to a certain level you learn how to live your life become somehow easier than if you were not educated. tomorrow chose of kogo richard and his workshop at the least scrap. of place often labeled as hell on earth. sticking to a vision and not losing hope that's key for the global shapers two young people dedicated to combining creative ideas and commitment to making lasting change supported by the world economic forum so far they've helped kids in colombia's poorest neighborhoods campaigned for affordable hous

we are flying to accra in ghana via a connecting flight. we are flying with a portuguese airline.nds. they can't reschedule. we have been here since 6am and we are frustrated. will you go home? we have no other choice. we have to go home. they said if we book another flight ourselves, we don't get refunded for what we just booked, only the initial amount. that is significantly booked, only the initial amount. that is significa ntly lower booked, only the initial amount. that is significantly lower than what we will be paying now if we go to book. it's deplorable to treat your customers like this. we have come here to fly out. i have a wedding to go to. i can't go. i have to see my grandma, she is elderly. i can't do that. they haven't given us any information. the first time we got some information that the flight was cancelled when we came to the luggage bay. they never came at any pointed to contact us. now they are saying we are not even going to get our money back if we are going to book another flight. how is this the way to treat customers? it's ridiculous. it's embarrassing

this is where most of it arrives a port in the capital accra as europeans prefer the breast of the chickenthe leftovers end up here shipped in refrigerated containers halfway around the world. on our way from the harbor we visit the cold stores that sell that they tell us they only stock what customers want and that local farms couldn't meet the rising demand. these boxes have just made the journey from the us state of georgia where the modern chicken industry was born from the netherlands belgium more than they can get their hands on. this customer wants his chicken even cheaper florence forty cooma argues she wouldn't even make a profit that. way if. the u.s. and brazil have also discovered the market for surplus legs and wings but europe is the top exporter to africa last year the dumped one hundred thirty five thousand tons of frozen chicken on the gunmen market alone for prices below the cost of production the equivalent of one hundred twelve million birds and oversupply that gutted the domestic sector. this is the local competition and this is all the seen on court one of ghana's las