Elder nathan john. We meet. An investigative journalist for exposing Sex Trafficking in nigeria. We turn to printer who gave up a prestigious job in New York to stop their own company in nairobi. We start off in zimbabwe and had a Comedy Group called t. V. Attention to the Floor Soda Pop as well us of a pot of society. What is meant to inspire a youth is followed by millions online but not everyone finds them funny our correspondent had a look behind the scenes. How did you get. This set of my comeback t. V. Actors they are shooting is such a skate on the Countrys Police Fighting with. A woman reports an incident of corruption but she is a repeat minded 14 influential government official. Aim of the video is to motivate young people to participate in political process and. Pushing for positive change that would me make fun of you with a with the top office only the top and. If we are not just doing it so that we fight were doing it so that you look at yourself and see we can probably do things better for the general public time for editing them again but t. V. Team includes 6 production members and up to 12 comedians the group started in 2012 and produces over 24. 00 such their productions a month that creeps aboard the fictional guzzling Police Station amongst their most popular videos. Weve been told it is the times in the can stay we also need that. Just not want to sit down and be passive who only has one tool to get to what ever we feel is an injustice but zimbabwe isnt an easy place to be a such a recent Comedy Series often abstract their oath of state authorities weve had our present office arrested charged with Treason Organization d also d. Treason charges this is. I think my premise is they did they say they reached at least 1000000 people in mind on social media but despite their success they have to find creative means of navigating threats. We suffer from. A very polarized population where its very hard to differ on. Subject matters on the maasdam a t. V. Series for freedom of expression is when challenge. Anything enough money is a magnet. And the comedians are hoping to make a name for themselves internationally. You will not know who actually did good move in move to what extent we want to go all the way over to the. Despite all the challenges the f. E. C. Is invariably they still have the i will power in their enthusiasm. My gumba t. V. Wants to go all the way as so does our Guest Today talking to nigerian satirist Al Net and john but 1st lets find out. Allison john is an award winning Satire Asst Lawyer and novelist he grew up in ca to nigeria but now lives in germany. The writer uses satire to lay open and criticize all sorts of polish truckers and i dear in society. He might only a means to an end. And he might self is not the goal and so. The humor is meant to transport people into a sort of if you like false sense of safety so the by the time to. Be realized oh gosh im probably in implicated in all of this with its like being a very bitter pill with. John regularly writes for newspapers and has written several books one titled becoming nigerian from politically to pastors to journalist no one has spent the Writers Wit not even he himself. Thanks for joining us on the 77 my pleasure you trained as a lawyer why did you leave the profession is because last have no sense of humor. It was my intention to go into a space that was more challenging mentally for me and lloyd did not hold that prospect any more i was getting bored and i thought that my skills might be put to better use as a writer which i quite enjoy doing youve written several books and one of that my absolute favorites is becoming 1000 men and in the book you criticize social and political power structures and manchuria for example you target to rich also targets the famous so why didnt your book if i want to be famous in nigeria one of the things that i need to do. Well you must pander to the crowd thats at least one thing and its interesting that you ask that question because. Guides like this a very common means to to to do satire to transmit critique of social vices or of social behavior in so i quite like this medium of of the how to the guide. To doing things so how to box or how to what do i need to do how do i get the famous guy in the whole of of which are. Well you need to start a key theyd be deeper if you really the sandals in the caftan i need to borrow your friends or save ok what would a perfume and then the missi is all these importance because you need to you need to be you need to be perceived a mile away. Long before you arrive i get it i get it and in this book you say that you have an abusive relationship with nigeria and we put it on our Facebook Page we asked people what sort of relationship they had with the country and lots of people sent in comments in want to said for instance that his relationship is that no love no relationship at all and opium assess that. It has gone very very sad so many people agree with you but youve left nigeria and youve been away for the last 5 yes some people would argue that you have no right to criticize a country because you left what would you say to people like that well well like i understand the argument its not valid because niger happens you wherever you go you know you leave relatives behind if you get if your father gets kidnapped you certainly involved you have a long chain for example that ties you economically to the country you have. Social ties you also have. Emotional ties to the country it does not leave you because you leave and while we bear this green passport we will always be nigerians wherever we go no one will let us forget that a lot of the things that you have spoken about talked about in nigeria i am from ghana and i can easily relate to them and its also the same across many african countries now lets Watch Escape from zimbabwe on the abuse of power and government. I am the minister of impending project you think it is a dubious character hello. You might be right but id like to find a country as well check out what you plan to do about the minister. As you know i have embraced social media i have no augment it facebook account i am no link to time and only should never change. Just so that i can get more in touch with the populace at least thats what im dealing. Me you might get me getting into and you could probably live who all who are they to me why should i get into your lim who cares about them minister of cybersecurity i want to know can we turn the internet on or it will end if we cant do that can make 10 dont. Because there are a lot of people one very law will do all social media and we need just to tell a little girl just a bit or even move them gold lately as. Many african creatives use humor in the awake nathan is there a difference between Comedy And Satire one employs the other but theyre not the same for uses among other things wait. Irony and exaggeration while for for for comedy the goal might be laughter for satire the goal certainly is not laughter the goal is a certain level of discomfort that provokes or that pushes people to be introspective for Satire Humor is a means to an end the not an End Self so its not entertainment and its not meant to just titillate people its meant to provoke people to action is that to suggest that we set out people shouldnt laugh well the kind of laughter that satire hopes to provoke an uncomfortable laughter a laughter where as soon as it ends there is there is deep thought that follows or at least it is Comfort And Engagement with the issues that arise must follow so whats their End Goal of your subtle for me the subtle right seeks to move people to think to ask where they are in the very various hierarchies of power and how they use or abuse power not all of that is interesting but in many places across africa space for free expression as shrunken is there a use for political satire in situations like this where Press Freedom is not available for everyone its important that people are able to critique their government and not lose their freedom in the process. And where this happens is also the such as job to point this out because you there is no subtle way there is no Press Freedom one is one needs to be able to at least have this or that after critiquing Government One does not end up dead. Its important not just for journalists but for society at large that that these individual freedoms are not taken away that journalists and people like such is able to shine a light on what people in power do thank you very much l. Nathan john and remember his book become in nigeria and its out you should definitely read that book respond. Thanks for coming in and thanks for joining us on the 77 percent but ill go on to the next report. On next report its also about a writer nigerian Journalist Border she is an investigative journalist best known for her undercover investigation into Sex Work and made us human Trafficking Mafia last year the story of her undercover work was made into the netflix film. And has given her international acclaim. Worry has been writing since she was a little girl inspired by her dad she became an investigative journalist. Of war has made it her lifes work to shed light on injustices in her society. By a copy of the paper i just to go through this article at hari. How i can map out its story and see how it delves into incidents so great in the Car E one its a go for the flesh it all is what comes to mind my. Going further sometimes involves her changing her identity. Of all her Stories None has impacted her life as strongly as her 2013 investigation into nigerias human Trafficking Mafia. The traffickers promise women a better future and send them on a dangerous journey with smugglers to europe. Then they become sex slaves and the forced to work until they pay off a debt for the cost of their journey sometimes up 260000 euros. Oh boy started her and best occasion on the street for 7 months she went undercover as a Sex Worker. Right every way looking forward to the. 4 days a rocky. Chain many days of this tree. Very young was. A young dog it was much work. To borrow worry herself lost close friends who disappeared and died as a result of trafficking she wanted to find out how trafficking works. Unfortunately she also encountered things that she didnt expect. She was raped abused and witnessed to people being beheaded in front of her leaving me when. I see that its a depression that was the trauma that posttraumatic stress disorder. Panic attacks at some points its great. I didnt know that i was already badly affected. Your Report Lead to criminal investigations but there were no consequences. Young nigerian women are still lurk by the traffickers promises of a golden Life And Europe they are often raped on their journey their families are threatened and this happens despite the public knowledge about it. Today leggo says red light areas see more busy than ever. I dont really think. So much has changed i did answer lives texts so saying. Very young girls are districts. But to light up saying the very young ghosts in the jazz on the streets. A Mix Messiah was because they have a lot smarter. In the ovaries most recent investigation looks into how officials and embassies on volved in the trafficking networks its dangerous but she believes its worth the while. Palin not for the voiceless giving voice to them so i have no regrets ive never had any regrets i would never have ever regrets that. Story was the inspiration behind the Netflix Movie or the tree which was released in 2020. While the work has inspired many more investigations into the topic of worry herself says shes not stopping any time soon. And this year to a board over he has been chosen for the freedom of Speech Award the award and this journalist who have done outstanding work to promote freedom of expression from all of us here at the w. B. C. Quddus from one strong woman to the next Number Or Symbol is a fund of and that Sports Way they design gear that fits the tarion of africa kenya is famous for the prowess of its long distance runners who have dominated truck events one scores of medals and broken world records but the us for skia is typically not made in kenya or even africa now lie all assemble wants to change that. Mannys not for laos ambled but anybody close enough us. Cofounder and chief executive officer and i sportswear. And i was created with a mission to bring their benefits are running back to kenya. As actually broaden may who be made that was and therefore i got a massive international development from that im school of economics and the one thing that he blew me away was just how people he spoke about africa you know like if you study to africa if youre talking about dictatorship africa good looking about Tagore Africa so coming out of there i felt i needed to change something late Todays World much reduced the School Rajiv so much beautiful things happening in africa that were im not sure if i may be selected in development i. D. s and as a if i ever did something it would be something thats definitely improving development and at the same time uses sports. Im sure that kenya other potential use all the famous athletes gotten from china surely we can do much more than just a few of us a bigger scythians or our want to praise is always to be used in rocket teams how can their Country Benefit as a whole. And thats when i got the job with the united nations and then i moved to New York i was like so who also like joy and those of destiny scheming will make me i am im going to change it was like i mean deceased or poignancy and make wear out like this isnt about me thats the kind of just get that and you stay there as t. V. Guy and it would make a Day Trip and all. You have a dream that i can go bust through it then get a golden handcuffs with a vest much more can i. If there was an event in South Africa i think obama went to that event but he does basically said if you want to change africa you have to go to the ground you kind of move from a distance at that point to actually feel like youre working to me so i basically left the united nations and decided to hand over everything and to just be 50 tickets and im full of my dreams. We had just been just up what does but equally there are a lot of people who are laying youre making a mistake you kind of make by taking these for granted but some of the challenges of moving back and this may be used by you when youve seen efficiency if you had to go back you know i mean have to go back and this is a really new and that Way Country just do you think there are definitely a lot of course times in Tampa Right i mean back to the police to the economy even the dry lead theres like theres just a little of that but i only see. If the privilege is in getting their eye of the beholder whether you drugs to when money is easier for another and i think if you know what you need to. Now lets head to West Africa Ivory coast is well known on the international reggae scene thanks to multi award winning. Ticket. No generations of trying to succeed him like all the kids. But its not easy finding produce this and promoting. The Kingston Gang Starr Band has been on the Ivory Coasts reggae seen since 2002 reggae is popular but this galaxy of stars does not include many women and a stew you want to change that. They were women before they may have had a hard time showing themselves that they may have had a hard time revealing with within their hot but today women say what they want. Despite their Commitment And Popularity reggae musicians struggle to survive off their music for a concert the Kingston Gang star sometimes paid as little as 45. 00 euros per member. So recording an album is a big dream depending on the artist ambitions this kind of cost 3210000 euros. Also keeping Ones Voice is not a given according to reggae man. Music to fly to eagles its more music to see whats wrong to put your finger was a sin from that angle. A little bit in the sight of all those who have the minutes and put away. The Kingston Gang Style Band has been working on the album for 4 years now they are entirely self i know it writing the songs gathering the musicians booking the studios. And what i would. I like to see young people wanting to settle into a kind of. You that doesnt exist. Own has been a musical for since fullness. Been a music of people who make with what the half. And some people in the reggae scene have made it both nationally and internationally and become icons undoubtedly the reggae star of the Ivory Coast is. He started his career in 1901 and today he has been awarded gold discs and is known for his committed songs even on other continents. But it is a good thing you have to keep hope theres no Reason Someone committed. You can have a hit and ovarian or french radio stations will be forced to play it because the hit is good because everyone to sing in it it can happen i really think its not over yet much for. Some musicians wish to return to the essential rastafari and face the. Association that was launched to bring the Ivory Coasts rust does together. Rust off area near some worships God Or Jar and strives for political Consciousness And Unity amongst africans it is one of the roots of reggae music. To the words that. Gives me strength. Its one thing that all reggae artists have in common they hope that reggae can continue to shine. I hope this show how do you speak out against else in your country when i its through music. So get in touch and dont forget to subscribe to a brand new Instagram Tonneau my name is Michael Duty and i leave you in a good company off 2nd. And soprano enjoy and i told next time thanks for watching. The be. Good. News. For you. To. Be marked down. 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