Age town kids trade from the room a neighborhood of nairobi. And a prima ballerina in lagos pays off into the magical world of performing arts. Whats the 1st thing that comes to your mind when you see a Police Officer across africa there have been many reports of the police abusing citizens for no apparent reason in south africa victims of Police Brutality are now demanding change. Eldorado park in soweto outside Johannesburg Police fire rubber bullets at protesting youths enraged at a Police Officer who shot a 16 year old in the head and chest. They kill an innocent lives his brain innocent lives. Their music and. That they are killing as they are doing us so we dont feel safe how we feel safe what did. The victim nothing. Was unarmed and living with down syndrome neighbors say he was shot because he did not respond to officers questions now the Community Demands on says from the authorities a provincial official arrives and finds a devastated mother. When they did that with me. When they did the facebook. Would i suppose suppose the daily all. They want to do this world needs to pay this. Julius is death comes as police face allegations of brutality throughout the country with 300 to 500 People Killed by Police Bullets every year many south africans ask themselves if Law Enforcement still serves to protect. A week before the shocking death of julie as we visited the Eldorado Park Police Station and establishment at the heart of a drug and gang ridden neighborhood many residents here believe the police is corrupt and in cohorts with dealers constable can see and could see a rookies who wish to change that perception. To be honest i dont feel the way i do. When i am called. It was the stuff about our colleagues and stuff i barrels down myself ill stay the person they even make a difference in what in the Community Mean this is saying about us. The young constables in el dorado pocket wage a daily war on drugs today constable could see and kinsey have taken an illegal drug labs apart and arrested a number of street dealers he does. Have a problem with are. You. Seeing that the police is actually doing something against the gangsters as well received. More safe and sound. So its good its keeping the communities more. Sensitive. To stop and search your. Business dean scope is doing you dont know whos the culprit but 29000 reported by corruption watch suggests police are the most corrupt Public Servants with abuse of power and bribery being right lawyer vic a stale in johannesburg wants to see more responsible Police Officers in charge he represents victims of Police Brutality and says the trend is systemic and has been institutionalized from the top. I think the problem with the police is that not sufficiently trained they dont have brought leadership that. The police have told them to school which is the shoot. Or want to insult so they think they can do this because its back in Eldorado Park the shooting has stopped but the residents are still angry if nothing changes they say the Police Station will be burned down they demand an accountable police that protects and serves its people. Its not just in south africa where calls for justice and police were telling me are getting louder we ask people across the continent how they feel about their relationship with the police in that country. When everyone says police here in uganda what comes their mind one is the impunity to. Torture 3. Iris with no explanation because thats what police has painted themselves as. We must have action like that with us she actually did the security you know floyd because we wanted to secure so its there. Actually its also not a beat its also because. We is young people we are fearful of those were supposed to be protecting us. In democratic societies we see Police Officers are supposed to protecting the citizens but in our case is the affairs they are the ones where to maintenance to Police Officers they have to sort of go back to school and be told how to handle the public. Well you heard lovejoy from zimbabwe suggested that educating Police Officers could help tackling this pan african problem. We also want to shift our focus away from the problem itself and instead find the solutions thats why we took our street debates to kenyas capital nairobi by calling it a committee met up with victims and activists to discuss what needs to be done to improve the relationship between Law Enforcement officers and citizens. The 77 percent has been to italy weve been to germany and now were back in the capital city of kenya nairobi and its in this country that in march a curfew was put in place as a covert prevention measure and its reported by the Human Rights Watch that in the 1st 10 days of that curfew 6 people died at the hands of Police Officers and so today we are asking who do you turn to when you need protection from the police and as you can see there are no uniformed Police Officers here we did send them an invitation literally camped at their office but they did make it but the show must go on and so id like to begin this conversation with perpetual karaoke she is actually from the k only a social Justice Center but beyond that you know this idea of Police Brutality its not just abstract to you its affected your family you know a very personal way could you please tell us about that. Brother through this. So. By then i couldnt follow up the case because we had no idea or. Can you tell us how your brother came to even be in contact to the police in the 1st place so from this story we were told by the police is that he would he went to his Friend Health who was a wanted guy and the guy got out and locked him up. And thats when the police came. And they couldnt hear. There was no. No mention of youre under arrest were here for you because of such and such no no no no. So standing next to us from Amnesty International does this sound like some of the reports youre putting in place because you know when you talk about the numbers its easy to forget that these human beings behind them what is the situation currently if based on your own assessment on Police Brutality and well. For me here. Clearly this happens especially in. Areas where the fight against crime is a fight against the use of that area. Just like what happens in the u. S. In black people who goes where the police decide about the policing in this area is going to be commuter. We have seen very many cases and during this period the been 20 cases 20 killings. Young people in every being a 13 year old boy. Thats crazy were talking from much because thats when we had our 1st case here in kenya 20 people 20 people ok i want to speak to my band who is a musician and a blogger and a resident of these low income areas mothery have you been in a situation where you felt the police were being violent towards you exactly ive been in that situation several not once not twice i cant count. For one reason just my physical appearance just having dreadlocks makes me a criminal so that has has made me come to the police so many times so much that ive become more ive just had to back you know like i know really how i will be able to respond to a policeman also based on how he approaches me here so lets come to gondor were hearing already some very staggering stories so what you must be getting in your office must be out of this world how many cases do you get an average of people complaining about Police Behavior between march and. Because of june we received over 500 complaints and then i want to see that those are not Police Killings stuns those of age floor. And city as if there is of course Police Killings but they are but its misconduct so how many has a poor how many convictions has a poor managed to get. 6 convictions. On life sentences and hanging and hanging but i dont want to look at that statistic come on i knew that one must do that and we understand that the cases take really long and i just issue a service also has its problems but if youre saying 500 complaints in a span of a couple of months and 6 convictions since a body was formed possible for all the complaints that we get not adopting court because we see for them we look at what is within or might be to what is not within or might it we dedicate to other disposable sector organisations that handle those much us right so thank you so much i definitely understand that but byron i have to come to you because we obviously dont have a Police Officer here but youre the closest person we have to one what goes through the mind of a Police Officer when they in that sort of situation you know what would lead a Police Officer to draw his gun and kill an unarmed person coming from a community or very high love bulleteer when addition of a special forces i know for certain that when life is supposed to be taken the decision is very critical and so life as opposed to taken is that which is has been thought about so many times and we set up so many times in terms of Decision Making on the part of the operators so the judgment around the practice of security and order to be very sick it is obvious has got to be rethought and the functions thereof in terms of even the training of the people should move in the brief for the particular operators has got to be refined of the last minute detail of the operation so my solution would be the police being the. Big brother here got to operate it to happen when it comes to the read address themselves to insecurities on how they will supply themselves to the provision of the key to service ok propecia very quickly we opened with you had like to hear your final thoughts and also what you think can be done to bridge this gap between citizens and the police most of these Police Allegedly police. They dont wear uniforms they dont identify themselves we dont know who they are too because this will go to the Police Station and report a case and theyll say come later so my. Solution to. This is a Police Reform to be implemented everywhere in this country because all citizens of this country and we have to be treated with dignity we do we do deserve to be treated with dignity i cant think of a better place to wrap up this conversation thank you so much to my panel whove been so gracious to stand with me as a sun goes down i think what we can take away is that the Police Officers of being asked that their slogan to michigan or to service to all needs to be to all and from the Community Service from all that we also have a responsibility to play in this thank you all for watching. A big thank you to edith and everybody who took part in the street debates in nairobi and if you want to watch a longer version obvious debate then visit our you tube channel and be sure to subscribe were saying in nairobi in the room a neighborhood to be precise and there we meet a group of talented kids on their way to becoming social media celebrities after watching just a few of their parody videos and remakes i only get why they are so popular and why thousands of fans follow them on instagram. Costume props a little backyard camera and action thats all you need to become an instagram star. These are the h. Town kids from the room a neighborhood of nairobi and they have big dreams. I want. To. Make you know what. Its like look like. Im one of. The kids of the stars but rose morag is the woman behind the Instagram Account you know shes a local ice cream vendor and taught herself to shoot and edit videos about a year ago she started making videos with the neighborhood kids growing up i wanted this some things i wanted to do but i never saw that school for me is. Parody music videos social commentary nothing is too big for these kids today theyre shooting their version of beyond says music trailers black is king. Its an entire day of shooting petering multiple sets and costume changes and the crew needs to Pay Attention to columns of tiny details. Sometimes i look at a phone and see what i said looks like then i go on good news the manager tells me what to do like now shes told me to get a bicycle so now this bike is like a horse oh. My god im not. Looking every weekend. To be exact so that you can come out. Good thats what. He needs. But for the kids its about more than acting the neighborhood doesnt have many youth clubs or other activities on offer. When i come here im not lazy and we have each other and not been there i like the group because there are lots of kids here and im not on my own and i think if one of us makes it will all become serious. You know who would lots of things going on that is lots of vices they can fall prey to that on the street its dangers we started this group to at least keep the keep safe and easy. Growth is not for trending topics hasnt just honed the kids just why skills and creativity theyve also been tackling global issues like the black lives mathematicians and the coronavirus pandemic. The one they have is the base of the monkey likes of that. And they go for oh yeah you were muslims would be good for the in. Another group of youngsters hoping to make it big one day and show biz isabel a troop in the Lagos Nigeria now admittedly ballet is not very popular in many parts of africa in fact when i was growing up in tanzania i didnt know anyone who was doing ballet but the dancers in nigeria are passionate about what they do and they hope to inspire us with their elegant. When you think of lagos might not be the 1st place that springs to mind but fall on me there when i went to dancing bonnie is her favorite form of not only exercising but also safe expression. When it comes to dance i feel anxious about everything behind this dallas makes me feel happy and maybe its a express my feelings she needs how i feel i dance so lets just forget about the boss now. 18 year old or nah maybe grew up in the night goes neighborhood of which had since maybe a social problems but going on mommy to steps up to the bar she forgets whats going on around her shes part of a class of 12 students who train in this makeshift dance studio twice a week and some of them as young as 6 months old. I guess ready for a world to do in. The city for them to dine on jala has been teaching students michael nominated for free since 27 clean keeping them focused on achieving them both in right front and display in a fun way but those goals may not always necessarily be related to dancing. Some of them are now going to become professional dancers we know thats because you dont. Be trying to get on the up lighting and if youre like daniel is a selftaught professional dancer who uses the streets of audio to showcase their talents of his students some people are clearly delighted to get a free shuttle bus are perhaps not open minded enough to appreciate the hard work that hes students have to put and doesnt really just be able to mange anything without it is going to send for you to succeed seligs up. You know what youre always dream where its not like that. Well namita is a hard worker not just when it comes to hauling her skills but also at the sewing shop where she is employed even behind the sewing machine keeps practicing. I dont care what people reactions because im doing my thing me forget about everybody behind me i just focus on my own you know what i want for much of. It to cope with whatever life throws. At the end of the day she only has a sleeper and fellow dances. You may be familiar with the soul maja of the country in the horn of africa but have you heard of somalia land well its a self declared state of bordering somalia it has its own government but internationally it is seen as part of somalia were mad. At her parents are from somaliland and although she didnt grow up there she took a bold step to discover her roots. My name is a small man. Who was born and raised in canada. Before i left kind of right our condo or place to be and the 1st time we traveled was to africa when i was 7 and i remember my mom telling me that we were going to go to africa and i was terrified because all i had was. The idea of what i saw on the road. Traveling changed my mind about the for tickets to the 1st and. I told my parents i wanted to get married move to have you said to be with. My husband now and theyre really shocked because they have no connection to somaliland all. When i was there everything was hosted just to i was really reliant on my husband to show me around to take me everywhere to. Communicate for me so that was really really difficult the biggest thing was a language barrier. Being a mom or even just being pregnant was the 1st thing that got me thinking about natural skincare after i gave birth to my son he developed a simone when he was about 6 months old so i started just experimenting with like coconut oil and just random natural things that i could put on him that could feel the exam and nothing was working and then i went online and i read a book she bought her being really good for. What i was the 1st time i tried it and it really worked so i would bring it with me from canada to how to be so after i bring it here weve run out of it and i go looking for in the city and it was really hard to find so me and my husband were like just fired from the city. When i 1st introduced the butter to people who had a gift that i realized that they trust and believe in any product that has like a white person face on and once i started explaining the benefits. It seemed a lot more open to it and actually a lot of women. How do we start again your life and how harmful it is to the or the damage that its done to their fees were very curious about whether she better could help them so they really like the fact it wont erase the damage but it can help heal. My advice to young people that want to go back to the continent would be. To be very open minded and humble yourself to new opportunities to learn and grow. What an inspiring story and if youre in africa and live in abroad and youre planning to move back to the continental person you opportunities wed like to hear your story send us an email to 77 com or get in touch with us on social media well weve come to be and todays show of thanks for watching us today ill leave you with some music from then im a b n y 2 artists ease this song is called magic and hes calling for unity and love especially now during the pandemic enjoying and see you next time. You go to. The because. Its good. To. Go to. The back. Just. To. Write. To. Us. Why cant Mother Nature rest at night artist the song light seats far away and with grave consequences. Like illusion of the moment of our modern civilization now researchers are looking for ways to do excess of light so that Mother Nature can finally sleep again tomorrow to dunedin. In 30 minutes on d w. 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