Of. The name is eddie mica jr welcome to the program ghanians head to the polls a mandate to elect the president in what is expected to be a close contest old rivalries have been revived between incumbent president s and michael and his pretty says john mahama 2016 mahama became the only incumbents to be voted out of office and hes hoping to inflict the same fate on. In a region thats with Security Issues ghana is viewed by many as a beacon of hope and stability but he shews such as corruption and unemployment remaining headache for many gunny ends like sonny brought him. Mohammed sunny ibrahim studied Development Communications at the university and leaves an informal settlements in ghanas capital accra. That each has tried but filled to secure a meaningful job there but since 2016 of them the father of 2 often depends on the generosity of relatives as well as casual wake to take care of his family sunny says he descend nightmare we cannot every d. Much know when or where just the next meal will come from really that money to. Give morning to a family or family to those who go to school and some education and. So money is a problem and there is no money. Sunny like millions of young kenyans wants to join. With general elections decent we he has been monitoring whats kind of promising on job creation. And ive been hearing it from the people. Who create opportunities for the people to work and then in comes through. For the companies with all the parties. 12 candidates are running for president in the december 7 elections but the 2 leading candidates are the incumbent president. And the Opposition Leader the expresident John Muhammad. Campaigns for the 2020 general elections taking place on vetch op platforms with social media playing a key role in it due to the coronavirus pandemic but that has not stopped. From boarding huge gatherings ignoring safety protocols president who has 4 tests to keep him in power. So he can do more for them swati b. M. P. Pete is hopeful kenyans will grant thats request and with so long that they knew better the party when i was always provided they needed quality leadership and when the party lines its mine 1st to move it would be without the leadership of 7 helping to protect the games with me for all as being a message to the good people. The position candidates and former president John Muhammad is also hopeful of victory of order to spot to say this the government hasnt done enough to deserve another 4 years. Every single guy who wants to avoid this shock for a moment depression and pressure that is being handed to the people by the flood must with the election and feel that that is the path to salvation deep you know where for the own salvation the kind of limited what you know for history that do. See this Years Campaign has been issued be used with this expect it to consider the policies of parties in deciding who to vote for. The survey that we put out there say that we did you know theres evidence that people are much more. And much more knowledgeable of the Political Parties ministers and their messages than that they would have had in the past and of course the media engagement had been very intense. Signy will be voting in the election. To do this for the we know to get to. Fix the countrys economic challenges. Joining me now is dr cancun head of the center for Public Discourse analysis and electra ive got niceties of journalism now we just saw a report about im unemployed gunmen how big an issue is that and how are the candidates addressing it. Unemployment is a really huge issue in ghana as of now unemployment is about 12 percent in general and youth unemployment about 50 percent so this really really huge unemployment is higher in areas done in the rural areas and i can tell you that there is. A lot of young people concerned about and people are for the country are concerned about it unemployment. Among the top factor in this election and what i kind of say about that. Well for the m. D. C. That is the Opposition Party does the challenger John Dramani Mahama is the kind of day for the National Democratic congress does the biggest Opposition Party and hes saying that hes going to establish bring about 1000000 jobs when he becomes president and then money festool he calls this. Language and soon he is calling part of the project that will bring about a job big push and hes saying that in the big push infrastructure and the policies that youll be doing would help to bring about 1000000 jobs for the n. P. P. The new picture at that party which is the incumbent party leader no not done quite the president then ive got he is saying that he will continue with the policies that hes done that will bring about that will bring about a lot of employment in full food and jobs the National Builders call program that hes planning to do ok there are lots of other major issues with the current president and former president how hard the corruption allegations against him how will that be a determining factor in this election here if you want to look at the winds or the direction of the gun in the election one of the big things apart from jobs is corruption people hate it and one. Option is hunk on your neck its probably the death nail so corruption is a big scene its come up really strongly in the last 2 weeks after the special prosecutor released it was his report on the deal so more option is really up there in this particular election and i dont see that is going to be one of the deciding factor this now looking forward to the d. D. A. In previous elections theres been pockets of violence here and there is not something we should be concerned about. Absolutely especially because weve had consent about vigilantism in ghana over the past 4 years this has been one of if you had one of the biggest things that has characterized the government it is that vigilantism so important that he passed the vigilantism and related offenses act 1999 thats how important it is. Weve seen that there has been some violence india recently held elections so there are legitimate concerns about vigilantism and conflict and violence and this practically election ok now how will the 19 pandemic influence the elections in any way huge heaps their eyelids have been banned by the government so we dont have the traditional rallies as weve seen it which means that one more factor has come into the picture the party which is able to campaign and sell itself despite that night and go around it is the party which is going to make a head week weve seen the m. P. P. Do virtual rallies weve seen the n. D. P. Use Facebook Facebook live events and so many other innovative ways whats up and soon i do think that as Marshall Mcluhan said the medium is the message and in this particular election the medium around call the one thing is going to be a determining factor ok 10 seconds is this election too close to call or what their beer fest around here when or if there is any election which is too close to call its this particular election because theyve been just too many things that have happened close to election day that will tend to tilt the balance ok for the brief their dog. Had of the center for Public Discourse analysis on lecture on how the gun is all journalism many thanks for your time. Lets now take a look at some other stories making news across the continent the south African Panel investigating alleged state corruption under former president jacob zuma the countrys constitutional courts to compel him to testify zoom out walked out of the Panel Last Month after i had rejected his request to have them for side in judge. Recused. Staying in south africa an explosion. On oil refinery in the port city of at least 7 people were hospitalized Authorities Say they dont know what caused the blast which is the 2nd explosion at the south African Crude Oil refinery this year and that. One month after the fighting began in ethiopia has nothing to gripe province the army says it has killed or captured most commanders of the t. V. If you have been t. V. Sure images allegedly show life returning to normal in the regional capital to grand leaders unite the claims. But life is anything but normal for the estimated 45000 refugees who have fled many of them crossed the border into sudan thousands of people are believed to have died of one has also been born. Didnt fled their home and as soon as they had the sound of explosions and gunfire. Just a week before her 9th month they set out on foot. And i was frightened and running away thats when the pain started right in the middle of the street. Someone was knocking in a small village in ethiopia she found a hospital where a doctor how to deliver her baby. After that the family of 3 made their way to a un refugee camp in sudan salaams husband at security said he feared for his life in tikrit i. Could have taken me and. So if i die i will die with her and if i live i will live with her. Here in relative safety in sudan already has hopes of returning home. When we can go back ill tell her she was born in new. Zealand says she wanted to show her gratitude to the doctor you have been joining the flight. To africa i wanted to call my baby africa but i instead named her after the doctor who delivered. Africa became. And she is now nearly 4 weeks old. Putting a smile on your face to. Be sure to check out. All the facebook twitter. Every journey begins with the 1st step and every language with the 1st word published in the book. Rico is in germany to learn german why not learn with him simple online on your mobile and. And free to suffer from d w z learning course nikos fake german made easy. In the us of climate change. Clothes assumes. That senseless people. Want to tears today out of their future. G. W. Dot com for the megacity the mechanisms could cut or. Clips from some of the 12 films made by film students here in germany over the last year we were tossed with showing europe in film in 2020 which the students have managed to make despite the pandemic. More about those films in a minute welcome to arts and culture also coming out today so sensation out of black is back with a brand new album now a father all love everything is an inspiring tribute to his new family. With the 6 month german presidency of the e. U. Coming to a close at the end of december this also sees the end of an artistic project initiated by the German Foreign office and supported by the German Film Academy 30 film students here were asked to travel through europe and shoot what is important to them what moves them like the Climate Crisis or the plight of refugees here the result sometimes fictional sometimes documentary a very moving. Take out of it 19 pandemic has worsened the plight of refugees in europe restricting them movement and reducing their chances of gaining asylum. In the short film caps in the amount a Young Refugee in rural germany encounters unfriendly mistrustful locals hungry and scared to kills a cat and the hostility turns into outright hate. The law thats. On the. What if this doesnt. This does sound. I mean thats sad. Family about. The vows i know. But help comes from unexpected courses and unsettling study of loneliness and desperation i. Go to the democrat twilight of the gods picks up on some of the most notorious images of the refugee crisis while telling the story of a wealthy Family Holding a burial at sea in the mediterranean whose ship collides with something floating under water. What we wanted to convey with the film was that the time when we can look the other way is over we need to face up to the failure of our values and the act was. About to end. The war believe me a lot of bullets. The film takes the form of a parable contrasting the idea of European Solidarity with the harsh reality of fortress your. View the. The battle for our voices is a Short Documentary about prochoice activists in warsaw involved in the women strike in poland as of 27th of november 2020 abortion is banned there. Is a muslim and this is an action regime on the face of. Be your own stock tip our focus was very firmly on the activists political and social agenda 1st and foremost we wanted to show what their values are and how important their work is we wanted the film to be inspirational. So i thought. The film provides interesting insights into women struggle for equality and so on a charity. Groups have. Said. Its a struggle thats underway across not just in europe but the whole well. Short films that are as diverse as the young filmmakers who make them but to share the belief that we can all help to solve europes problems and then perhaps the whole world thinks. There are a total of 12 films you can watch all of them for free at this website i was keano dot de and you can vote for the best one as well as music now and the new album from in my humble opinion one of the great solve voices around today i love black devils in many musical genres hip hop rap r. And b. Hes also a really good songwriter and its his singing voice that really gets me on his latest album all love everything it really has matured into a thing of beauty in the last few years. My way fun by californian soul star eyelids lack featuring the thing his trademark smooth focal zz the track of blacks latest album old love everything igs huge hope and positivity. In this. Aloe blacc breakthrough came in 2010. With this song i need a dollar it was a hit around the world. Carefree as it sounds it actually tells of people marginalized by society of alcoholism and hopelessness it reflects the long history of struggle by black people in the us. Aloe blacc campaigns for the rights of people of color he uses his popularity to reach politicians and fight against injustice following in the footsteps of some pretty big role models. Activist civil rights heroes that i look up to the leaders of the past for talking about. Gandhi or Martin Luther king or talking about Stevie Wonder or bill with Aretha Franklin you know. There is a place in there just being in their existence that humanizes. Everyone. By humanizing the most of all garbled. I want to follow in their footsteps. Blacks own story is not typical of black musicians in the us his parents were immigrants from panama but black grew up in a californian suburb while he went to a good school had white friends and a picture perfect front yard. Where he didnt feel quite at home in that world so he searched for another. He found it initially and breakdown and then later. I couldnt live. The life that my parents lived in panama and i couldnt prove the life that my white friends were living in america and what i found hip hop hip hop culture was something that i can embrace and say ok this is different but i feel like. I can belong to Something Like this i believe. Black eventually had success with the soul and heart genres but hes never left the political behind i follow black a singer who wants to bring light into the darkness. The whole state was a german photographer famous for the way he worked with lloyds when he started back in the 1960 s. It was with his black and white photos later in his career as a lot of artist who was one of the 1st to use lasers so successfully as an art form is archive has now been donated to a museum in the german city of mann heart d. Curators at mannheim sefi a gallery for contemporary art a sorting through the estate of photography cost h. Alan its a vast collection bellman was 1. 00 of germanys most successful photojournalists and light artists with the funds most at least in the early years to 2 subjects in particular. Probably be out on the front cars and on the back when in. Belmont made his name in the 1960 s. With photographs of motor sports but also with sensitive portraits of the stars of the era remotely call as you get a cool deep in contemplation his talent was to capture intimate moments without intruding on their own. Balance gaze was never intrusive but he was a keen observer he began taking photographs at a young age in 1053 aged 19 he took this selfportrait armed with his trusty like a camera he quickly launched a 6. Yes full career soon he was taking pictures of leading figures of the day from then chancellor ludwig add hot to bond actress and yes i had her on as a photographer his subject range was vast he was basically interested in everything i listened to. His skill set was also vast working as a light artist gave him scope for creative experimentation. In 1977 he took part in documentaries 6 and capsule where he installed the 1st prominent laser sculpture in the world but his career began to suffer one time cause there came a point where he lost his fishing he ran out of money but continued to be extravagant he ended up on welfare for. Forced age ballmer and died in 2919 his daughter bequeath his estate to the mannheim gallery a retrospective is planned but 1st theyll sift through the thousands of negatives and photographs the seminal artist left behind. Now a look at a couple of other stories from the world of arts and culture a moment to start with were off to hollywood for these 2. The highlights of an option of film memorabilia and hollywood on thursday was the original james bond prop. From dr no that was the very 1st movie which of course starred the late great mr sean connery the iconic violet a p p k was estimated to fetch between 150. 00 and 200000. 00 but eventually she went to an anonymous buyer for 256000. 00. No sign of the latest james bond movie yet but a new film called manga starring gary oldman comes out this week and netflix its the story of how hollywood screenwriter Herman Mankiewicz wrote citizen kane which is often regarded as the greatest film ever made and he wrote it despite being drunk dissolute oldman is said to be brilliant in the title role. And that rounds up this edition of arts and culture lots of all stories as ever on our website at d. W. Dot com slash culture also do check out d. W. Books and d. W. Classical music on you tube they are worth a visit thanks for watching and until next time ill veto is a good book. Eco africa. They have a Bad Reputation but they play a key role in the ecosystem. Which is a very much important in cleaning up the environment we call them nature has undertaken many species are endangered a project in kenya seeks to protect the unloved scavengers that means above all talking to local people eco africa. And 30 minutes on d w. Story so that people who are old over information provide. The fenians they want to express d. W. On facebook and twitter up to date and in touch follow us. The crime fighters are back africas most successful radio drama series continues. This season the stories focus on hate speech prevention and sustainable charcoal production. All of the sos are Available Online and of course you can share and discuss on africas Facebook Page and other social media platforms. Crime fighters tune in now. Try and run game did you know that 17 trillion land on the. Worldwide so that we can include but its not just the animals of all suffering its the environment we went on im sure any find ways out of the machine if you want to know how when clifton the priest and the huntress changed doesnt it he says listen to our podcast on the green. This is the w. s line from. Their approaches in venezuela opposition they dont want to go i dont hold for a boycott of the polls that he says are rigged but a big win for president Nicolas Maduro is ruling party with mean faces no serious competition and also on the program u. S. Lawmakers prepared to block troop withdrawals from germany with the clock running out on Donald Trumps presidency he sees orders to be jewish troop numbers fear no unemployment and many are calling it a Seismic Shift fulfilled