what. 7 what will experience flash on like you never seen before, and the design of behind it is a put us flag. and finally, we'll draw the west african desert hub naomi in we share with rapid ballot killer. it is an exciting shore, so let's get in the running with cut off by meeting monica pioneers, aka top sherry. what we're seeing is one of know me b as music calls tag a journalist by profession. an actress, an artist, by passion, this eclectic singer, exist outside of any box pushed on to ha, ah, hello, 77 for centers. this is your girl, but what was all the way from them of the currently in the head of then took and i'm about to show you around then took city. so please follow me. let me show you around on the monica pin is also known as the top. jerry is a rising star. no, maybe as music seen, the 31 year old has collected pretty much all the nominations, namibia has to offer album of the year. best newcomer, best collaboration, best female artist. but what does top jerry, what, what mean? such a what. 8 5 what means the number one goal like job means on top, the top of the gave number one. nobody can come on top of that, you know, and the what, what just came because people would always ask, what are you doing? what are you about? what's next? what so i added that. what was the music varies from don sole to afro park to rap to gospel. but top cherry herself refuses to box in her music. i don't like to put a john ra tag on my music because i think my music, i just wake up and when i go to the studio, it depends what i'm feeling. if i feel rock that day, i can do a rock and roll song, you know, so yeah, i do music that people love because people love me and i love people doing what she loves, while wearing many shoes, a journalist by profession and actress, and right to buy passion, but top jerry has certainly found her calling music despite being one of them, maybe as top artist, top cherry and mingled with the crowd like here in the single quarters market in catch a tour every so the next morning. yeah, because this, this is perfect for the next one. then i'm going to, when did you have to have the 5 children to give you bringing in her mother tongue or she bumble is an ode to heritage. and culture being maybe in itself is a source of inspiration for top cherry, particularly namibian. and then every day, hostile motivator. so this is the heart of god to, to listen to the simple people that came from the north. they came from the house. we came from canada. they came from their homes to the city, basically to make a living. listen that at times i tell stories from people here, a cannon, i'm on die and i and i and our god died. i'm in, i'm and i and i and our god died goes in, but. * bad back with dell, good della could to bring out the whole bill. why she long i she got that. she thought there was she don't mccomb was. she got my fill meaning lake. don't think about the situation that you are in today. doesn't determine your to morrow. all you have to do is close to day, so that your tomorrow is better, your dreams are valid. what you want to be, what you want to become, you can become with the right mindset. so that's where you stud heavier mind, right? ah, and who do we have in the studio tops area? well, oh mine it is so good to really meet you. i'm glad to be here. i did are on a please welcome to germany, how it is over the weather. so call is so called, but i love it. i love it so much. touch harry and hayes. now listen, you are an award winning musician. yes, enemy be a right? you have one. what it boils now. my as that is the namibian music award. yes. could you have imagined yourself 10 years ago at this point about relying if i say no. because i know since at, since i can remember since i was a little gone my, my confidence was always on the 100. you know, my, my, the people at home would always like, can you be less, can you let, you know, since i was a little girl, i was singing in church, literally performing in church on the outer, in am before me. you know, so i like people around me knew that yes, this child right here is going to be something sunday. you know, you've always wanted to be a star with. wanted to be as and then somehow your journey drove you to journalism . yeah. right. how did that happen then? well, our, our industry and fortunately namibia it's, it's not that easy. you don't just say i want to go paid and then you go paid. i want to read the. c you know, like there's channels, you know, that channels i became a journalist and entertainment journalist. i met a lot of artists because i used to write about them. you know, so in that process i made friends, he, in the, and, you know, there was this tim or morality a label. when we went to the not to should cut the color. i would be at the back of the bus with my iphone and at the scene in, at the singing and do and would come to me, i would say, do not you can thing you are doing is, is, is a group of a thing in group. ok. yes and said, you know, you can sing you and i black. yeah, i know. i know it, but you know that you can do it, you know, to be a musician. just want to understand. yeah. on this bastrop you went in the capacity capacity of an entertainment journalist. i went as a journalist is i was a journalist, i used to work in that office and he said, there's a role for a little girl with niche it. i'll hear that all over the place and that can, it just gives you an i said, tell me when and where, and i'm a be on that bus and i was on that bus. and now you have been launching a rather bananas and millions of he's a new tube if you don't know what i'm talking about and please on the 77 percent, we're in the know. so please go on your job to go to music la. yeah. so you went from journalism to entertainment journalism to being asked her, but yeah, so you are actually changing lives through your activism. yeah. tell us a little bit more about that in my head. i always know there's a little girl is a little boy out there some way who wakes up every day and just wishes someone could walk up to it and give her a hug for no reason. you know, because that, like i always tell people like i understand money is important, food is in for that. but just making some someone feel like you are appreciated. you are important. you know, so i go, i visit schools in a college sanitary pads in, i'm a, be a like, it's really a, it's a pandemic. i must say little girls as young as n as 11 is pregnant, you know, and it's most of the time is no by choice. you know, so i visit schools and i talked to those girls about this things. you know, i tell them the importance of education, why it's important to stay in school. so yeah, lake it's, it's things that come from within me. i want us to quickly take a break. but just before the break, i want to ask you, in which language do you dream? i is definitely in the sequence. hm. in on my mother, in your mother tongue. yes. because like i express myself so much better, like even when a pre, when i talk to god and come to him in the right, you'll be go me. this is me. bob says as your basic, you know, when my mother them because i believe he understands away. oh yeah, i think i dream definitely in by young we are still hanging out with top sherry. what we're. 7 in the studio and, you know, speaking of language being a unifying factor, i mean, now media is one country that has several languages spoken in the country, right? and undoubtedly, it is a land of beauty. but it is also home to one of the world's most unequal societies, with a huge gap between the reach and the poor. what will it take to unite the country? oh, no movies. a land of vast open spaces, blessed with good climate rich in its natural resources, and a relatively good standard of living. but it also has a lot of hub. i would know that is my home country. the movie is one of the world's most unequal societies. the gap between the rich and poor is staggering. years of colonialism then our party privilege, the white minority population, and since namibia became a democracy in 1990, there is still a long way to go believe in the world that, that, that has created the systems that make sure that they will protect the haps that that's the reality of all of the fact we have to look at the future. we have to look at building something. we have to look at developing. we have to grow as a nation, but it doesn't stop there. high unemployment, especially among the youth, has been worse than by the coven, 19 pandemic. and there is also a significant power in balance in the namibian society between men and women, and gender, because violence is shockingly high. we live in an, in a society where, pardon me, are very much pervasive. are dynamics that also make those choices on behalf of other people. and therefore also remove the agency of especially adolescent girls, young woman and gender nonconforming people. and traditionally, you are taught to not sort of really refuse when a men approaches you because this means older than you are. in other words, our country needs a whole lot of uniting and across many lines. but there are many youth who are trying to change that and i am so lucky to have in the studio 2 of the youths wishing for an a me be as unity through their act. i am talking about top sure we and i ha, i give her my, it is amazing that she made the time to join us in the studio. i love having you. i want to as to talk a little bit about that. a report that we just watch for my colleague or carry talking about unity in the country right in your country. maybe i sat with you on the top sherry, would you say that namibia is on the right road in terms of coming together? we, we are headed into a direction, years, but we are still so far. we are really, really so flood because the, the necessary people that we need to be on the forefront to hold our hands and say, okay, i get what you guys are doing. let's do this, those, those people, we don't have unfortunate which people with like the main people like, i mean our lead does our, our people in corporate, the people that have, like you just said, the hurts. you know, in order for it, for us to also have the have nots into the conversation, you know, bad people. i had the conversations and meetings for those people, but they're not part of the meeting. i, how do i them? i forget about to ease. i feel that music can do so much good. and when we, when i started my career, people looked at me like, what is this guys doing, somethings with their i took the namibian flag because that's where i was born. you know, i took it and i wherever i performed on stage, going international i have that flag with me. not so like talk jody said we are on the right way is just give us you the chance to change and make africa. paradise for everybody. yeah, i have, i have to just put this 2 points very succinctly, 1st of all, invite the youth to the table 8th. secondly, use that add to change that whirl and unite people. now you have a song called a deer journey is it has only adoni didn't it is only yes. when i listen to this song i this journey, is this part of relating across the continent? yeah. go had yeah. what is having some history to this phone? ah, now is this, is this something that happens every day is can tell you like guys back home, it is under spring kings every day to make a heart. you know, then i, your head gets broken now like that. now you also got nothing about doing good. i'm more like the guy who makes love song. i really appreciate the woman. yeah. don't do this, player things was i think as it's time for women it's, it's your time now you are to in the show and one guy represented. but i think, yes, we must show so much more love and respect because especially also the african women are the backbone of africa. they, they hold and that's the respect we need to show them. i love this and indeed you have a song that you slightly mentioned about you have what together i am, you know, in working with a power i what you, you to, to actually working together. i got a, a call from at bridge. as i said, jo, is this got me in the city, one's a song and i'm legs are playing when me something when me i'm so busy right now by i hung up and i went above my days. i think the producer called him as a guy that girl doesn't believe me, saw her. is the number get a call in and like okay, for a number and i hello. yeah, this is mag all have you asked people knees i was it was really big. wow. now i have to ask you, why do you think you song which is why when we united, right, why do you think it's so important right now? i think it's important, especially where, where i come from, you know, because especially in the arts, you know, everybody's trying to do their own thing. everybody is so, so concentrated on their own being that you don't even when i let someone else in, you know, but when we did that song we is showing that it can be done. you know, we can work together any can be a bomb and we can make it work. listen, the 77 percent has got it. what you're asking? well, the coolest people from now media in those studio. now let's head over to south africa to meet. how again, all my she, lou, aka. how much interesting name, right. but the background is even more fascinating. machine uses, the cow is a fact symbol of expression. and one strides how culture is changing. the title of my work is one to 3 block myself. it comes from a game, hide and seek. basically, we to play with red maternal grandmother house. my name is called car mass, i'm a sculptor primarily, but a multi disciplinary coal, much as a deep fascination for the coal. and it's not just in her name. the contemporary artist from for africa limpopo province was raised in the city of 20 is known for her distinctive sculptures, call, much tactful religion, culture and identity in her act. as a member of the petty people, she married more than a traditional art through the symbolic him of this acrid cole. my name is actually call her law much about my c low birth given name. my mom you can call me call call when i was younger. so the call part kind of stuck to me. when i was old, i decided i'm going to go in with the call. what stands out for me is this how prominent that is within our practices, within the slaughters family gatherings, bringing people together and the most significant being the how the cow is the bridge between the ancestral plane and our co much you the synthetic live and was to create us cultures, combining the various fabrics, either nor to an upbringing, you know, start conference to the coal, which is a common feature for south africa, but the rural landscape plus uses authentic materials means no coals hummed in the making of her art. i have been working as an artist for probably just under 10 years now. i think it started off as a longing to be more connected to the culture. so i pulled from very nostalgic objects that i would see from my grandmother's house and things that reminded me of home. and in essence, reminding me of my culture as well. in the beginning it was because i felt that i was removed from a so space. so being a go that grew up in the suburbs, it felt as if i couldn't use a real cow hide because i'm maybe not as connected to cancer as my cousins who lived in the homeland sofa. by exclusively using the black and white color palate carmack aims to elevate block from its perception as a negative color to tickets, right, from place as an a former 2 color part pieces are reach in african history and each one tells a story recently her more than an contemporary creation of caught the attention of the international market my work as well as my physical appearance or aesthetic both tie in together in being its own version of the culture that is still there, but just inspired by culture, but also there within itself. most african cultures expressed their beliefs through their art. this has played a significant role in shipping the collective cultural history of the world. now it's called much as time to take the spotlight on the international art stage. always staying true to her petty roots. holy cow, amazing cultural preservation there from how much our next port is tied to cultural preservation in a more than we, singer and designer quill tower is leading the flashing revolution in congo. have brandley put a swagger, takes queues from africa, futurism and congo, laughter, fashion subculture, no 2 of her creations are alike and how unique fashion also acts as a mirror to hand music. but what african tradition inspires her? ah, nick would go further with us or am i a brand if coldly put a swagger because my brand is based on the loincloth? i am a 100 percent offer feature is tied reporter angola means loincloth and swagger. means fashion. i don't within person. why do i see on my creations i usually made of knowing close wilkinson orbit, and some people are more, well are you connect me to my continent and really supports my african identity or real? imo mon, you go to just because i put a bar at last. there were stage outfits because i am a singer refusal to humor. i said to myself, i want to make something that no one else will wear and then displayed in a museum i loudly booker ferguson. premier paul, you put us walker was born. i also make this clear in the spirit of rebellion as primo renewal poster, or i didn't want to be boxed in and was psychologically ready for people to reject my ideas. more africa, i humor go here. i consider myself an afo features designer. if we're talking about african, it's africa, which ultimately inspires me. philip quickie must be within that. oh oh, oh oh, oh, just swagger is one for the wild. i hope to take it as far as possible and become a showcase for africa. while i open between pool i p a dot com or you can put her by a here. if what if you don't be afraid of obstacles, don't be afraid of difficulty of the moment because there's no shortage of the law for barbara. but need to have faith in what you do. that's a super important level performance on this. you may publish all imager law, one consoles, people for the sample for the buddha saga is definitely a feed for the young. our for our future is stick youth. now from the congo, we fly over to nick jazz capital near me, which rises like an oasis out of the sahara. the city on the banks of burton jerry river knows how to trade, eats and throw a party. and we have the pleasure of following one of the country's biggest wrapper, but aquino, who is taking us out to see the site. so out of control villa alex from every one. i'm bertina bowen, allah, i'm from leisure. and this is the beautiful city of miami, where i grew up. i'm very happy to welcome you to my city in the army. thank once on that radical news years capital near me. it was the sahara, but there is no denying the city of lush, green light, none other than most of the kids. the biggest river flow through it. and 15th, the city of over 1000000 is in some of virginia. we are at leisure river. it's our pride in beauty, it fits the city and give the charm not a mile. mia made both a mix of west african n for heron, heritage fulani, grandma hauser, and 2 or 8 people live here to his roots. burkina writes his lyrics in both hauser and samar, with an average age of just 15 this year is the wild youngest country. and the youth of near me city market. well, they devil an extra inver aquinos decreed you don't quite old grandma. so we are. grandma shared the biggest market in the heart of near me. it's terrible my ship any pocket, you know, this is my favorite because you can find everything you want here home for, for kutrovitch rock of it automatically. after leaving his hands and follows behind . if time for a snack, the local speciality committee, sunday, drive me clinically, she is symbolical, familiar and in the army. and you can always find these here in muslim countries. it's what crispy me and american friends are still on his tail. later on to swing by the international festival of african fashion, a melting pot of missouri and culture. i mean i know some of all my family we are here to fema where i have the honor performing good. we have 5 minutes on stage and it's gonna be like nothing else. something from pop with. oh, i do that normally. oh, wait on like lights and the crowds. burkina takes us to the dues, just outside the city. it's time to wind down all michelle, them for dear friends. we are here with mahmoud, my guitarist, the only engine that i might use since we come here to get inspired surrounded by the beauty of nature and peace. and the beautiful view of miami is in yes, we are here in the army and this is also your home. sure. all was we are waiting for you and you all is welcome. thank you. chow, for loud, but i key math. thank you so much. i hope you enjoyed that 12 near me. i think one of my favorite highlights was clichy and in fact, our very generous guess is and top cherry. what we're brothers, something similar to the clichy which is dried meat with salt and spices known as bill talk. it now maybe at today's show, was all about highlighting and celebrating african culture, music musicians, and full. and i want to know what else is happening in your country. do right, me on facebook, instagram and you, you also you can drop me an email at 77 at b, w dot com for now, i leave you with some of that nearby and goodness in this song by top sherry. and he's titled, when were you night enjoy until next time. thank you for watching. ah, ah, ah, ah, ah ah ah ah ah, ah, with a in a globalized world where everything is connected, all it takes is a smart to set things in motion. local hero show out their ideas, can change the world global 3030 minutes on d. w. o. they were underestimated and discriminated against that they have proven themselves female and trip in india, which is 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