minutes. with meeting young gave me an activist who's been mobilizing resistance against female genital mutilation. are reports that the money talks to rest and they get to farrah about the living conditions. and my safety feature. who takes us on a tour of liberia capital monrovia. but housing markets across africa is our hot topic today on the fringes of big cities such as lagos or nairobi you see rows of inigo corrugated iron shacks in the media there are four times as many flimsy shocks done properly built houses and surprisingly people living in the area around the capital in talk are growing more and more frustrated with the situation. ok these young namibians are fed up tens of thousands have joined the youth movement affirmative repositioning or are full shot the groups protests have drawn the biggest crowds seen since and of a path ate their demands to the government a clear affordable housing with electricity running water and sewage services i was thinking i was killed was he was he. was he was leaving can you believe it was i to see the extent of the problem you need to look no further than the capital windhoek as prices have continued to rise more and more people have been forced into renting overpriced shocks on the outskirts of the city . seven years ago poor rat she was not left her village in the north in the media and came to study in windhoek unable to afford city prices she rented a shock father out in the car to tour a township the name cut to two rock translates from the local hero a language as the place where no one wants to leave. it's already had in here the government is to be blamed they don't want to look at people who have for low incomes they don't think of those people they are the they consider before with money but without money. we need also places george cumberland is one of the founders of the movement who was born and grew up in ca to tura used to be part of the leadership of the ruling party's future league but in two thousand and fourteen he was expelled from the party for occupying a plot in an upmarket windhoek suburb three hundred to two to four hundred thousand people in winter. and out of this at about seventy percent of the people are still in shacks. since independence. internetting to the municipality has not serviced any activity in the local in the in the low income group only serviced in the upper market in the upper middle class. sectors building roads electricity networks and see words for new housing is expensive emanuel paolo's is responsible for providing land for development on this site the city plans to build three hundred thirty new houses it's a pilot project which he hopes will help young people struggling with the housing crisis we are going to start my and i'm going. to ask the consulate solution of seeing you know what is going to be sold. it is supposed to be. but few young people can afford to buy land for fifty thousand euros the money see politics is currently not servicing land in informal settlements like those in ca to tura but consul apolo say start such projects in the pipeline perhaps that's a small consolation for poor. out love to have a please where access to what did that i don't have to go out in and go five to fish for that and a place where i'm access to clean toilet. it doesn't look like property prices here will be falling anytime soon but poor and her friends are already planning what their dream house would be like. now with a population set to double in africa within the next thirty years the pressure on the already struggling housing market could get worse for many the solution is to live in makeshift shelters like shocks but is this really a long term solution in this week's streets debate are reports are you that community speaks with the rest of the ins in nairobi slum districts give bera to get to the heart of the issue. we are in nairobi kenya most pacifically kibera it is infamously known as one of the biggest slums in africa and when you look at it it's easy to see why i mean people are packed into really small shacks in a really small area and it really goes to show how big the problem of housing in this country is and i want to begin with someone who actually lives here as he tells me his name means navy blue but you say living here is not so pleasant when you. talk. about food. everything is sounding a little depressing right now but where is the problem i mean you are in the construction business you made your work is to ensure that not only do we have housing but the proper house is always a problem all these years. in africa we do need i mean right now we are talking nairobi alone. two million houses for families like us. two million be pending every year we need two hundred thousand we really need must be building but when we talk about affordable housing for the people who are watching in the background what does that mean to you affordable give me a price range what does that look like for you affordable housing will be something like that really low less than what what's that for you less than five thousand i think fifty dollars fifty dollars for rent so would we move you know because in kibera there were these houses which were built to remember and then people moved into them and then they moved out of them so margaret i ask you if the government comes here today and says do you hear when i'm a party i can imagine when i see my like new hampshire at the end of the month give me five thousand would. move in there are no no no because according to some i mean me so many jose. scindia i love an opinion but only. an indian is in your pneumonia but certainly going to machine the camera i was the lead in to your menu new body. was now you're nodding your nodding so i mean the ordinary salary for most people living in nairobi is i don't understand fifty dollars to one hundred dollars this house does not come guaranteed with what i mean even if you cost you fifty dollars if you have to pay full for electricity you still have to get a four for four i mean for the utilities you still have to cater for water so that even makes it more expensive so i think even that five fifty dollars is still very exorbitant for someone living in kibera or yes you did you can not have a house in the pit by by not discussing livelihood you cannot separate people from like you do if you really must to worry about income per capita you can only be doing a good ouse if you can add income range all right so what i'm hearing is i'm hearing many things tell me if i'm wrong or i've heard that number one government is not providing enough housing number two the house is a provider too expensive and we are also corrupt and we're also saying that we're comfortable we actually don't mind am i wrong so is there really a housing problem or are we just what we think here i would start by saying that there actually is a housing problem and when you asked about responsibility it is solely the responsibility of the government to provide these things in collaboration with international players and investors and all these sort of people most of these people that we elect to going to present us in government are people who are corrupt people who would want to eat out of getting us these houses which is our constitutional guarantee and that is basically the whole problem so then you've told me that politicians are responsible and yet you're the ones who elect the corrupt ones so surely until you're responsible you can say politicians are responsible the government is responsible the government is booked. politicians come and go ok so we're here advocating you know the youth stand our position are we really holding our government accountable who is going to. i think the first thing that we need to do especially when it comes to our elected leaders it's one of the mandates of our elected leaders is to come up with legislation we need don't have an education that would ensure that economic and social rights such as housing are actually implemented so we don't have an education in place and one of the functions of the parliament is to come up with a decision that stands so this is how we are going to implement housing across the country and that's where even the problem of slum areas can actually be done away with we would have been very happy to ask the government about this but unfortunately we invited quite a number of officials actually all of whom said they for some reason couldn't be here today but it's all right we've heard that we have to be responsible legislation but you know hearing all these things it's kind of hard to imagine that we will ever get out of this cycle looking at the future in the industry do you see any possible solution out of this government should continue to push for policy that allows and that tracks capital because until people are making money providing decent announcing he will be very difficult because even as a country with our wage bill with the debt that we have i'd be unlikely that the government can find out in the coming years who we really must rely on private sector right rely on so multilateral partners and then a significant component of the local continue jobs for for young people because we're talking about seventy seven percent of africans being young you need to create opportunities so the income inequality problem make sure that you have local investors and also diversified sources of financing any of the solutions what can you and i do solutions now look at these. and compare it with. how many are there and how many so. i don't think i mean any harm i've been implementing the policies that's really not on the. the mentality is so deep that it requires so you could be told this is what's happened. to achieve what you really want thank you those are some really interesting point solutions solutions situation. i have read the story of corruption cutting across every time and every time and i think we as kenyans normalized corruption and we think it is right that we looted and then this we keep quiet we want people to come out and speak for themselves we are not going to normalize anything anymore we want the government to understand that they are making policies about when the implementing them they are looting us now we don't want to be looted anymore and they will see us on the roads with placards on the e.c.s. even go for strikes any time soon until they can deliver everything they promised and they deliver you to office thank you very much that's all we had time for and this is the beautiful thing about the seventy seven percent of the issues are real and that's why people get angry but so are the solutions and unfortunately we didn't have a key player here government they want able to be here but i sure hope they're watching this because there are a lot of solutions and it looks like it's an uphill task for them and as we've had for the seventy seven percent thank you for watching. now for more on our streets debates just go to you tube dot com slash stay w. africa or search for the seventy seven percent there you can watch their full debate with can money. providing a forum for africa's youth to discuss and debate issues that's what the seventy seven percent is all about let me introduce you to the segment called wheel where we regularly speak to our african correspondents on the ground about the issues that matter most it will leave no stone unturned to find out what they used to think about a weekly topic well this week we asked them for the our thoughts on young people on politics in africa. a few months ago president hu how he signed the not to run into no most vibrant opposition to president or i'm seventy comes from a youth leader nothing significant it's happened for the youth. zimbabwe has been the population their feeling is it does not matter but in two thousand and eighteen they came out significantly it was because of his moxie twenty year old presidential candidate they wanted to emulate countries like canada and france but alas the old order was retained nothing significant is up and for that you. are most vibrant opposition to present your i'm seventy comes from a usually musician time to position politician bo b. one is just to see. these people ball movement has a strong appeal for that you are on his music career every criticism of the government authorities of accused the wind of misleading that you into unproductive activities on these sites in the public to protest unnecessary. if you want to go president who have resigned not to run feel into little to low no was a minimum age for people running for political office in one. move was a direct result of the. online campaign not so young to run which attracted the support of millions of young people across the country however many young people are not encouraged to participate because of high costs of running for political office as well as other challenges like election rigging and forth by the law has opened the door for young people to participate in politics. is a tribute to the young political activist across africa it tells the story of a courageous young woman in guinea. has launched an initiative to stamp out female genital mutilation commonly known as the brutal practice for form girls and young women have g.m. is officially banned in guinea but what is that worth the four three don't follow up and crackdown on the practice says. she knows exactly what she's talking about. this is a dramatization the everyday reality and the trauma of an old age ritual more than two hundred million women wild white have been subjected to female genital mutilation it's a tradition that's reinforces men's power in society. give me an activist hi joe idris elba will never forget the day it happened to her. a formidable c.s.a when i think about the day my parents took me and gave me to those women who had tools that i have never seen before so that they could do this to me. food that . to be honest i was mostly anger with my parents because they have betrayed me they didn't really tell me where i was coming in warning in the world bad idea and they just told me i had to go on holiday and then i was faced with this when i got there she said critic. i'm traumatized when anyone talks to me about female circumcision i feel i can't breathe it eats away at me here if you see some holes some loss of it officially f g m has been banned in guinea since the a two thousand but the statistics tell another story ninety seven percent of women in the country have been cut after somalia guinea is the african country where this practice is most common but these resistant nineteen year old founded the group young leaders club in twenty sixteen with seven friends little has now more than two hundred members across scheming they fight for the rights of women and girls and against f.g. an. example of the political yes certain group it's important to remember that in some canadian communities they don't carry out exemption but in fifty lation do google this so the lab you are together so that they can be ripped open on the wedding night grandma parade will demand years in dishy it cost scars which lead to infections which has all sorts of consequences that lisa is a sick of too many to name will cause a fictional can even lead to death is only may. never ask the simple septum important reliable. girls are still being cut during initiation rituals in the forest without anaesthetic naturally the girls put up a fight so several women restrain them and push them to the ground it's not uncommon for the girls to end up with broken bones. hugill and her fellow campaigners in the young girl's leaders club are often on the road in the need to raise awareness of the use films to spread their message on issues such as sex education their goal is to help women to emancipate themselves and to know their rights that's vital in a country where every other girl is married off before her eighteenth birthday and three quarter of women report experiences of domestic violence. all these more steady we're reaching out actually at the grassroots level and he's also quite easy we hope that educated professional goals won't fall victim to f g m or get forced into marriage so we expect to see positive results on missed it doesn't happen is it if. cultures can change and her fellow complain of a sure of that they are fighting for a new guinea one which has no place for violence against women and gold. now on a much lighter note we take you to liberia and its capital monrovia the metropolis of more than one million people and it's fast growing. capital on the sea and there's a cultural political and financial hub for the entire country the city however is a lit with a vibrant bible in the street. takes you through has city of monrovia. high on patrice do on a writer poet and for near and former miss liberia today i'll be showing you around my beautiful thirty monrovia. with one point two million inhabitants monrovia various capital is home to a quarter of the country's total population it's an extremely young population more than sixty percent younger than fifteen years old that ocean on one side and the misdirecting river on the other many people make their living from fishing but the city and its people are still recovering from past traumas of to see even wars ruins in the town are reminders of the city's duck chapter of warlords and child soldiers to come palace hotel and this used to be one of the most serious hotels in west africa like many other buildings across the city that was destroyed during the country's fourteen years of civil war today it stands as a shadow of its previous self but the story is gracefully changing but the fibrin see reflected through our beautiful city and through our beautiful ship called music your you find out oh. i was going to. keep. that's rap music performed in liberian cannot cure it was born in the nine hundred eighty s. in the streets of monrovia with its social and political messages it grew stronger during the civil. war oh. i'll be there. as vibrant as its people monrovia is gradually developing into a modern metropolis new buildings are popping up like mushrooms like here in sync or with it's viral of shops restaurants and entertainment center there right place to take some time out from the hustle and bustle of everyday life in monrovia brown is only one place to i know i face in this busy city it's famous for its garden and delicious smooth. look here patrice finds time and inspiration to work on a project close to her have a foundation provide scholarships and mentor she took out intruder liberia. really good. enough for refreshments for now the beach is calling. monrovia but fifteen and on weekends and holidays oblige the day being to come alive today we are here on good models out of the baby's body was a jolly good sign i really enjoyed showing you around my beautiful city of monrovia and i thought he was just about done my god but now. what. do you think so what are you waiting for the beaches of monrovia are waiting because i believe is the place to be. well out see the seventy seven percent is the place to be right we've come to the end of the first edition of this seventy seven percent the w's new magazine for africa's use if you'd like to write to us the last seventy seven did of you dot com or go to our websites d.w. dot com slash seventy seven coming up next sure it's all about girl power and money meets with young woman and ask. how strongly be a pushing back against male dominated society and she finds out more while what they're doing in the our countries to make sure that our voices are heard and their hard work appreciate. before we go here's a track from an award winning rap dual from liberia sold fresh their unique take on hip cool music i think in one room vs dance floors by storm and so ben stay fresh 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