minutes. with meeting young give me an activist who's been mobilizing resistance against female genital mutilation. are reports that the money talks to rest and. there are about the living conditions that in my safety feature we meet. who takes us on the tour of life c.b.s. capital monrovia. the housing market across africa is our hot topic today on the fringes of big cities such as lagos or nairobi you see rows of new gold corrugated iron shacks in the media there are four times as many flimsy shocks done properly built houses on surprisingly people living in the area around the capital in talk are growing more and more frustrated with the situation that. these young men maybe ans 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 part fate their demands to the government a clear affordable housing with electricity running water and seaweed services i was i think a woman was he was he was he was he wasn't even i didn't mean 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 rational one now 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 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 out the they consider before with money but without money. we need also. george 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 few sleek but in two thousand and fourteen he was expelled from the party for occupying a plot in an upmarket windhoek suburb three hundred to four hundred thousand people in winter itself and about seventy percent of the people are still in shacks . since independence. internetting to be has not surfaced in the local in the in the low income group the only third best edwin's in the upper market in the upper upper middle class. sectors building roads electricity networks and c words for new housing is expensive emanuel paulose 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 stop by and by going that extra mile that's why we have passed the council resolution of seeing you know whatever length is going to be sold the window program is supposed to be what we are. but few young people can afford to buy land for thirty thousand euros the money is currently not servicing land in informal settlements like those in ca to tura but consular policy is that such projects are in the pipeline perhaps that's a small consolation for. i would love to have a please where access to what this that i don't have to go out in and go five to fish for that and a place where i'm excess to clean toilets. it doesn't look like property prices here will be falling anytime soon but poorer and her friends are already planning what their dream house would be like. now where the population is 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 residents in nairobi slum districts to bear 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 mr zorra he tells me his name means navy blue but you say living here is not so pleasant when you. do. 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 as we grew rapidly in africa we do need to our house and i mean right now we are talking nairobi alone meet two million houses for families like us they need two million that is already 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 would be something like the really low less than 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 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 you've been in a party a quantum magic when i seem like new hampshire at the end of the month give me five thousand would you move in there and no no no because according to come i mean me so the. senior i love making new music but only. indian is in a career pneumonia but certainly going to machine the camera over there leading to your menu new. now you're nodding you're nodding so i mean the ordinary salary for most people living in nairobi is around one hundred fifty dollars to one hundred dollars this house does not come guaranteed with water i mean even if you cost you fifty dollars if you have to pay full for electricity you still have to cater for four 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 fight fifty dollars is still very exorbitant for someone living in kibera or yeah he did you can not have a house in debate by by not discussing like you you cannot separate people from like you do what you really must to worry about income per capita you can only mean you know good ause if you can incorporate 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 houses the provide are too expensive and we are also corrupt and we are also saying that we're comfortable we actually don't mind them iran so is there really a housing problem or are we just what we think here i would certainly saying that there actually is a housing problem and you know 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 the 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 then say politicians are responsible the government is responsible the government is perpetual politicians come and go ok so we're here advocating you know the youth i was stunned our opposition are we really holding our government accountable who is going to serve the ok i think the first thing that we need to do especially when it comes to our elected leaders is one of the mandates of our elected leaders is to come up with education we need don't have a legislation 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 things 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 felt. some reason i 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 and the industry do you see any possible solution out of this government should continue to push for policy that allows on the tracks capital because until people are making money providing decent announcing it will be very difficult because even as a country would our way to be with that debt that we have he's i'd be unlikely that the government can find out soon in the coming years who we really must rely on the private sector right rely on so much. and then a significant component of the local unclear daubs for for young people because we're talking about seventy seven percent of africans being young you need to create opportunities of the income inequality problem make sure that you have local investors and also diversify sources of financing any of the solutions what can you and i do solutions you know look at these. these are our programs and compare it with the laws of government how many units are there and how many are there so that . i don't think. any harm i've been implementing the policies that's really not a solution is the mentality is so deep that it requires so you can question so let me be told this is what's happened. to achieve what we really want thank you those are some really interesting point solutions solutions situation. i have the story of caught up in 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 when we keep quite we want people to come out and speak for themselves we're 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 they will see us with placards on the even strikes and. until they can deliver everything they promise and they deliver you to all three of us 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 a lot of solutions and it looks like it's an uphill task for them and as we've had before the seven to seven percent thank you for watching. now for more on our streets debates just go to you tube dot com slash d.w. africa or search for the seventy seven percent there you can watch their full debate with either it 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 pin 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. if you want to go president will have resigned the not too young to run deal into no. vibrant opposition to present your i'm seventy comes from a usually lasting significance is i have been for the year. zimbabwe has it been the population their feeling is the outboard does not matter but in two thousand and eighteen they came out significantly it was because of the cut is my fourteen year old presidential candidate they wanted to emulate countries like canada and france but i left the old order was retained nothing significant is up in for the e.u. . most vibrant opposition to present your i'm seventy comes from a youth leader musician time to position politician bo b. one is just proud to see. these people ball movement has a strong appeal for the us and his music courage every criticism of the government authorities of accused bo b. why no misleading bigot into unproductive activities on these sites in the public to protest a necessary. if he wants to go president will have resigned to run into little though no one the minimum age for people running for political office in one thousand. moves was a direct result of the. online campaign hash tag not to young to run which attracted the support of me we are of young people across the country however many young people are not encouraged to participate because of how the cost 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. and. young political activist across africa it tells the story of a courageous young woman named guinea how jack. 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 fourth don't follow up and crackdown on the practice says. she knows exactly what she's talking about. this is a dramatization mitterrand's 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 hijo idris elba will never forget the day it happened to her. of of the pulse yes 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 the story. full first that was to be honest i was mostly and with my parents because they have betrayed me they didn't really tell me where i was going in morning even though will bad idea and they just told me i had to go on holiday and then i was faced with this when i got that. pratik. 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 year two thousand but the cystic 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 had founded the group young leaders club in twenty sixteen with seven friends the club has now more than two hundred members across skinny they fight for the rights of women and girls and against f.g. and. he devoted to the public and yes it is a good it's important to remember that in some canadian communities they don't carry out excision but in fifty lation who got this so the lab year together so that they can be ripped open on the wedding night them up it will be marianne's it dishy it costs cars which lead to infections which has all sorts of consequences the secret police or is it that too many to name will cause a textural can even lead to death if i only go back to city where. the people who did a good. move. gals are still being caught during initiation ritual old 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. hedger and her fellow complainers in the young girls leader of club are often on the road in we 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 a month to preach 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 quarters of women report experiences of domestic violence. overseas more steady we're reaching out at the grassroots level and he's also what are 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. 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 girls. now on a much lighter note we take you to liberia and its capital monrovia metropolis of more than one million people in this fast growing. rice capital on the sea and it is 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 and something near and form a myth like the area 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 frantic ocean on one side and the misdirecting leave on the other many people make their living from fishing but the city and its people are still recovering from past traumas of to civil wars ruins in the town are reminders of the city's duck chapter of warlord and child soldiers to come palace hotel in 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 cold 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 its merit of shops restaurants and entertainment centers they're right place to take some time out from the hustle and bustle of everyday life in monrovia brown is only one place to name and piece in this busy city it's famous for its garden and its delicious smoky. look here patrice finds time and inspiration to work on a project close to ha ha a foundation provide scholarships and mentor she to intruder liberia. really good. enough for a freshman for now the beach is calling. monrovia fifteen am on the weekend and how they apply could be a big job come a lot to bear we are here on grandma made out of the baby having a jolly good time i really enjoyed showing you our rob my view of what is monrovia and i thought he was. my god but now. what. do you think so what are you waiting for the beaches of monrovia awaiting because i believe is the place to be. well out say that seventy seven percent is the place to be right. we've come to the end of the fest the decision of this seventy seven percent new magazine for africa is you you could like to write to us mail us at seventy seven d w dot com or go to our website w dot com slash seventy seven coming up on our next show it's all about girl power needed money meets with a young woman and i asked how strongly the are pushing back against male dominated societies and she finds out more about what we're doing in the countries to make sure that our voices are heard and the hard work appreciate it. before we go here's a truck from an award winning rap dual from liberia so fresh their unique take on hip cool music has taken one real vs dance floors by storm and so ben stay fresh and fly see you again on the next edition of the seventy seven percent threshold for africa's you i for now give me. the deal putting. it in the making. you feel. i'm going to. give you my. we did it well. it was my. last letter with my let you. go. renee not my oh no we are you let me know when you're someone you don't know frank you knock us out of the friendship yacht i want you want to meet. me now would. you meet michael do you want to deal with. me i mean i was maybe your. song if not. the law. to. get. more nuclear weapons in europe. here's a deescalation and a song. mutual trust between the powers of this fast disappearing. in a freezing risk the commonwealth games gibson moments are occurring when talking germany or europe acquiring its own. anyone are we 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