A new golden age of african culture has dawned even in hollywood black panther was the highest grossing film in the u. S. In 2018 and offered a challenge to western notions of africa and its history. Cantor was nominated for 7 oscars and won 3 an extraordinary achievement for a superhero film that also features a black majority cast. Black panther was immensely popular with audiences around the world and launched a series of new cultural trends. After the movie there were viral videos of people dont seem to destruction. To over songs in america and in europe during the film why was it for me its a revolution and afro revolution there is a generation that suddenly claiming its identity and identity that has always been there that they could not express in the past but its. A renaissance of african pop culture is underway musicians from the continent and the African Diaspora are working together more closely than ever and storming the music charts. For example pop star beyonce traveled to south africa to learn traditional choreography. The world feels like they need to know more about africa because other issues have been highlighted up out of africa and people dont see the light side to fun side of africa. Oh theres just. The little bit of false hope all these seek to prove what was said before but. Suddenly. Theres no. Use in me does youre sure my work surely that is the message to lucy that you see. African culture is an important part of everyday life in the french capital paris in the early 980 s. He bought him a salon a student from senegal started producing records there he founded his own label can see laughs well the book his daughter into now heads the company she says siddharth has a lot in common with a legendary us label motown when i must stop this. Town has such a rich history so i like to compare us with them. Lets enlarge it has a rich history as well as weve been around for nearly 40 years. Dont get all started with even the artists he produced. So yes i think you can draw a comparison between the 2 labels because they both have a very strong identity we. Are so big they are not above. The point of this. These are records from the 1970 s. And eightys the cover art for african albums has always been incredibly beautiful. The graphics for instance were amazingly creative im going. With. These album covers are part of our Cultural Heritage. But one todays Younger Generation needs to learn about that. Because all of the graphic designers. For africans. Who were sitting in class this is africa. Want. To get a lot of people and i said im going to he must feel are they the foundations for the success of world music by producing records made by african artists and before anyone had heard the term world music for lift out. He was the only serious producer of African Music at that time who could prevail alongside labels like Peter Gabriels real world record label to be real both from Peter Gabriel. Thank you 3 thank. You so much thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank. You so enjoy i started this 1st band to 979 and his music soon became popular throughout africa. Back then his records were produced by people he must. Keep. I. Think if i was found thats if he really missed the law i was part of the generation that reinvented the law in that sense era of traditional senegalese music. So he choose to or senegalese drug use. This music was originally played by people in rural areas like this and. I dont believe this skill but in the 1970 s. Various musicians reintroduced the traditional instruments of this music especially the to madrassas. And they combined them or fused them with contemporary styles like funk and rock which i think will help. The british musician and producer Peter Gabriel introduced you soon dora and many other african stars to western audiences this was the beginning of the genre that became known as world music. Well music the world music is actually an artificial concept and a commercial concept it dates back to the 1980 s. When Peter Gabriel founded his real world label and opened the door to a number of musicians from africa and india. Gabriel wanted to break down geographical and ethnic barriers and present this urban electric music to a wider audience the click of the back i think it. Will be at about the same time my music from north africa also became popular in western europe. The aim of the area. Of music. Is the music of algeria its also from under an eastern morocco a new turn on the border with algeria and. Traditional algerian music that talks about the everyday problems of ordinary people. Screw. As riot became more commercially successful it moved with the times. Yeah im one of us suddenly there were no more violins guitars and pianos and i started using synthesizers and arab drums and thats how the rice style evolved is that i studied this exhibit a good bit of it. To. Get. To. But i got into writing music early on people like great italian ian the same college then i tried rock for a while but i found that i enjoyed singing more on the show you know. Who to our culture is shaped by our own heritage but i grew up between 2 worlds of. The german moroccan singer and actor you any represents a multicultural trend in contemporary society. Interaction between. Areas cultures and musical genres is common today but 30 years ago shep khaled was criticized for adapting his music to western tastes. If you just saw see this or to do allow. This were. Told well no. But i think its. Not as conservative islam gained influence in algeria ronnies asians were threatening and some were even murdered khaled moved to france in 1906 and found a new audience there for his music. You. Dont comply the people like khalid or shared mommy shaped and influenced my music they taught me to see things differently my music. Was devotionals if your. Mom. There is a large magreb community in france most of them are all jerry and. So were unsure of how the door said mommy gave a concert in france the place was sold out. Theres some some plan but little by little more and more westerners discovered this music and many adored it something that music is an other as it was. Born in morocco is a star of the world music scene is a multi instrumentalist whose works with many different musicians including westerners take us is best known for his mastery of the traditional songs of north african spiritual music called. Lipstick and i was in music this club the blues is the same mr is going our music it was originally the music of slaves. When i heard John Lee Hooker for the 1st time i said hes acknowledged to be not one master of where youre a mexican. If you mix our music with western harmonies it creates something new and rich is the answer blues. Music. And the munich jazz group that when the prime example of intercultural cooperation. Its a good. Cooperation of a different kind was the 985 effort to raise money to help famine victims in africa a group of western superstars recorded a single and donated the proceeds to charity. Their. Performance included Lionel Richie and stevie wonder. The song written by richey and Michael Jackson is called we are the world. I. Later that year many of the same singers performed the song at the live aid benefit concert. 14 year old of course and i think that some of those involved in these efforts have a mistaken view of africa is that i feel that. The farms are going to be a lot of media around the world just africas bad face the wars the famine and the problems so that its become the face of africa is that the different lives are different i. Welcome all devoted to the ways concert certainly saved a lot of lives that it was quite an achievement i. But africa was itself a passive recipient and was not represented on stage as its on the up to be you know. A. Little bit these. Days the 11th of february the belts to get. A free man i think the 1st step i mean certainly most of our. Lives. The release of Nelson Mandela from prison and the collapse of South African apartheid was a historic turning point and not just for africa i. I. Look at least i live. By directing our eyes to mandelas contribution was to provide guidance on how to overcome the racist system of colonialism and apartheid was essentially an offshoot of the colonial system this is this is called in the eye and he said the people should learn to interact with each other and forgive each other when thats in the month for good in the amount of a number to keep. That in south africa began to deal with its apartheid heritage a new musical genre that got its start in new york was spreading around the world. Hip hop. Is a phenomenon that expanded beyond music to include other forms of artistic expression you can. Reach but you have to scale a bit in the sense of hip hop was especially popular in africa. But with you if it is a. Little it was a sugar hill. Grandmaster flash round. You dollop of you by dint of the smoke it would break dancing during the smartest with the good dogs at school you organize dance performances. All over said videotapes from europe or america people from senegal like to travel. Something starts in new york your safe bet that it will turn up in dakar the same week that we were swept along by this wave and were still riding it today never. Let it get to. The legendary acts like you know what its like its one youre seeing in the u. K. They went to a time where they will fly to meet the oppressive system in this space so there was just this movement old going for little chris of space to to be free. In a city boy dont. Rap arrived in senegal it made sense to us it was like it was already in our d. N. A. Yeah selfexpression through vocals backed by rhythm and many africans could identify with that. Was that it got to where the hip hop became so popular in senegal because our traditional music is just like. You but with different percussion and rhythm but its one of the. Claiming while following the rhythm he wants the same technique as round with the nontechnical people dying. As in senegal was initially the center of african hip hop the bad positive black soul had a massive influence. I can sort of black soul or p. B. S. For sure it was founded in 1989 but i did hey i want to be and im not too badly i. Think were among senegals 1st hip hop stars their music included political and social activist messages. Raskin did a report its because the people of senegal have the right to freedom of expression so young people started talking about what was going on at home and on the street journalists or musicians wouldnt talk about these things but rap did we simply. Live. In senegal theres Youth Movement made a big contribution to the change of government in 2000 young people have made the country more aware of social and political problems so he put it on the spot and theyve done it through a very powerful medium musicians. And especially hip hop their music. In 2020 they played an even bigger role that the president wanted a 3rd term which is forbidden by the constitution where you. Can i will start you know 1st to try to change the electoral law about groups including m 23. 00 and he organized public protests against that proposal in a kind of insurrection so the president withdrew it. I. Think thats. Senegal is the only country in the world where hip hop helped change the government. Thanks in large part to the influence of hip hop thus its now much more acceptable for people to criticize government officials. In many african countries but not all there are now more opportunities for public discussion. So now the ideas of the independence era and demands for more independence from the west are being seen in a new light. The. Hip hop has helped to awaken the spirit of democracy in senegal people are much more willing to speak out against political leaders and the legacy of the postcolonial system. The studio portraits of black leaders whom he admires. Studio is named for. The charismatic former president. Was assassinated during a military coup in 1987. And positive black remain at the forefront of the african hip hop movement. Because you know its impressive. When you tour africa you meet people everywhere who have exactly the same cultural codes its a universal culture and its huge in loam. Another key figure in the african rap movement is made to the games he was born in congo but his parents moved to paris when he was an infant he was part of an influential french hip hop collective called sexy. If youre going to be. My macbook after yesterday. Im ok im on the easy out there because you see. It with. A little bit of thought it was. Going to be for you. But you see. The interesting thing about this group is that almost all of them are young people of african descent. From congo guinea or senegal. And mitra games was their musical visionary. Music. Good to. Come into. The lives of these. Has often been compared with the. We all come from paris and was a major employer. Is one of the few french speaking rappers whos worked with the english language artists for example sting and weighing. His last 2 albums rose quickly to number one on the french charts the story leads from kinshasa to paris to the heights of International Part of my. Days although i felt it would be interesting to highlight the exchanges that continue between african artists and africans in the diaspora. I wanted to do something coherent that would show the connection between these 2 groups. But i especially want to have a dialogue about rap and about a complex african identity. Told an african. One of the featured artists on the label is french rapper m. H. D. Hes developed a genre called afro track which incorporates elements of west African Music and languages. Goes. I contemporary african art has become quite popular in western europe over the past few years. A recent exhibition at the phone. In paris focused on artworks from congo. Paintings that depict scenes of the everyday life known as pent up popularity attracted a lot of attention. Is access put there for most of the artists of a kind to your poker player were. In advertising and their paintings became well known through an exhibition that was held in kinshasa in 1988. These works were inspired by the lives of average people particularly City Residents who could see the end then you. Can see that. And think i dont want to take their work so often in a great commentary text that address issues of Congolese Society or politics. That you may see. At the time the term banter of properly or didnt really exist these works were simply called naive for pictures for the un educated. In. African art has since conquered the global art market previously mostly found an ethno logical museums the works began to reach a wider public in contemporary galleries including pen to work popular these paintings often address social themes of congolese urban life and politics. Believe him unless you see this painting with mandela has called dignity for africa and it shows mandela with obama. With obama suggesting that mandela is a good role model for african president s a lot of our leaders are still in power even though their mandates have expired. But mandela did the opposite going to the south. Since the end of apartheid in the early 1990 s. South africa has played a key role in the development of african pop culture this includes the rise of electronic dance music. D. J. s played a lot of house music for some reason so what they used to do is to take the house records and slow them down but later. In the woods song for those house songs its at a low here. Yes and the jews the old beats of them in the cold are quite. The 1st fake quite a hit was arthur muffle cat is kaffir from 995 the song protesting the use of racist slurs captured the imagination of the post apartheid generation. So thin so that it is just how the connection with house music thats going back a long time and thats why you seem to just like black coffee rising out from house music. Black coffee as one of south africas most popular d. J. s his concerts always draw crowds i black coffee specializes in tribal vocalist beats and played a key role in the development of african house music and 2012 his d. V. D. And triple cd called africa rising when double platinum in just one month i. Think the. Black coffee do their favors the we do our failings different people go out into the world it plants new seeds of information to make that a mom like black coffee spoke my tombo has stayed outside the musical mainstream he specializes in a ditch. Plus route sounds that he calls township tech. And he hardly performs and so the africa but it performed at the glastonbury and looking for a huge festivals in europe. Disturbing images designed to shake dealers out of their complacency spook matam creates musical and visual landscapes that depict life as he sees it. We come from a pretty. Hard caressing. Violent history of. Cultural imperialism show or ill use my work im artistic practice as a constant form of discovering culture and recreating rewriting and sub culture at least so for me i express my culture my lack of culture it means of. South africa but much of the continent faces a number of Serious Problems including crime corruption and poverty. Its disgusting for some people talk too much for some people who have nothing and they just need a level of balance from somewhere and its not. Its possible to see a lot of black and white figure not just about the house and. The gap between rich and poor in south africa has led to social isolation. Your own my one in girl was really injured after well being people lock themselves up in their gated communities but building walls isnt the solution for me and people have to ask themselves whether this is the sort of society that they really want the recent good news on awesome warmed up. The equitable distribution of wealth and Natural Resources is a problem that countries all around the world will have to deal with more and more. There was also the question of justice in regard to art. A number of african states have demanded the return of indigenous african artworks looted by the colonial powers many of these works are now on display in museums. Spiritually you rob people of their spirituality. It goes way beyond just stealing an object its spirituality a cult its the saw the very essence of their humanity has been stolen and exhibited vulgarly in a museum. This theme even comes up in the hollywood blockbuster black panther good morning. How can i help here just checking out these artifacts theyre beautiful. Or is this one for the bobo ashanti tribe present day gone or 1000 century or. What about this one. Once from the edo people if they need 60 century. Now tell me about this one. Also from the name 7th century. Tribe i believe. On trip on the take it off it was for you. These are things out for sale and i think you got these i think they paid a fair price and they take it like they took everything else. In 2018 french president emanuel mark karr commissioned art historian benedict savoir and economist fell greenside to study options for the return of african artworks they recommended unconditional restitution of all looted works. For the it is essential for the African Community to recover objects that are part of their Cultural Heritage i suppose or that they can relate that heritage to the problems that they face today. Africans need to restore this connection to their creative spiritual cultural and historical powerline cultural story. We have to come to terms for this historical situation and put an end to it for about haps and i would hope you can help us to redefine our relationships which involve the plundering of this Cultural Heritage but we have to create new conditions in which these artworks and the Cultural Heritage that they represent can help to redefine the relations between the different groups of people in one so i distributed children who are less shortly. This is i moved to the symbolic importance of this situation cannot be overstated europe will be forced to confront its Colonial Heritage in a new way 1000 under that. This is the Museum Island in central berlin germany. He is also dealing with the heritage of colonialism a number of german museums house collections of african art works and experts must now determine where they came from and decide whether to return them. Berlins new home for a museum he said to display several 100 african works now has been in bronzes they were seized in 897 by british troops in an attack on the kingdom of benny in modern day nigeria and german middlemen sold some of them to museums around the world. For shock value it was under this the 2 most suggestive that we return these items immediately then borrow 200. 00 art objects from nigeria and pay them a rental fee was so they could use the money to improve their Museum Facilities it wouldnt be a good 1st wed simply pay them what we owe them. To africa be tied i mean us and if nigeria generously agrees to this we could display these works even though we stole them and changed the name of the home board forum to the benny forum. And then we have those who work for the movement for them only. When it comes to european history we only talk about half the global story successful developments like the enlightenment improvement of human rights in postwar Economic Prosperity d as if we achieved it all ourselves. From what we dont talk about colonial exploitation which helped to create enormous wealth in europe. This in turn created the conditions in which philosophers like manuel kahn to could develop their ideas. I think really become a concept in truth and. Here in berlin the history of german colonialism is still visible in some street signs god god god god god. Then in berlin was this an actual these are substantial reminders of the colonial past. And people are still discussing how were supposed to deal with this legacy. Institution freshening. Because its a question is why are we still honoring those who played a role in germanys violent past the entire divide follow shifted all of the talk. Some of africas top stars are playing here in central berlin. This is for the 17 from tanzania. Looking. To something. Else. Thats something. Real spirit of africans in berlin tonight. Yeah you feel. Really nice to be here lets do this. C c c im going to keep the body know exactly what im thinking when it comes. To see her is that the. Yes i was going to go in and tell me take it down so you dont think lets listen to music. To give you an answer m. D. C. Is the reigning queen of bongo flavor tanzanias version of hip hop she sings fluently in 3 languages english french and her native swahili. These days a lot of african bands are marketed as International Pop instead of world music and theyre hoping to change the way people in the west think about africa. Of the case not only about the things that the world know poverty in all of that but they can actually make good music. As one half of a Legendary South African vocal duo called muffy ki sauna they started out in 1906 and over the years their style has moved away from point 0 toward afro pop. But. I like that yeah yeah yeah yeah. Ive heard his music stars are breaking down International Barriers and playing their songs to an ever widening audience. If he were to think back to his kids 1st big single. There was a song that was very much about that nigerian story of coming from a tough place and making it through the space right you you. No the lyrics and the context and the slant was very local nigerian for. Them. But he. Wasnt trying to do a song for an english the audience for the english put us on the stand but then you go to a club in london and when the song comes on everybody in the club whether theyre nigerian jamie scott says whatever they sing along to the words of the song. And we have the right songs and the right parts to deliver the songs then theres no reason why as much as kids you have kids in germany was singing desperate seatle theres no reason why there might not be singing this way he for us we finally found the right kind of talent. Production and. Elements that made us pop stars enough to appeal to a foreign market. Have to face is a number of Serious Problems but there are good reasons to be optimistic about the future western countries would do well to reexamine their relationship with africa and develop new narratives that find Common Ground and create new opportunities for cooperation. The tremendous human race is still developing and one of our tasks may be to take humanity to another level i think africa could serve as a laboratory for reinventing Politics Society culture and economics it is going to be a lonely way that a lot of. The new africa a continent of seemingly boundless imagination and right now there is every indication that africa will have a much larger role in determining its own future. While if we can regain what is rightfully ours we can use our culture to colonize the rest of the world so to speak with our music dance and our drums and other instruments we are now taking back what is ours africa is the future. But the question remains what the rest of the world follow africas lead. Go forward to the a. B. S. For reevaluation of africas place in the world is already underway and not just in terms of economic output we are making contributions in music culture and social interaction things that are fundamental for our purpose in life what is one of economy and ecology are the conditions of our existence but other things are important apps we need to reverse our perspective and place of being over having that set up its pretty clear that our love for. International perspectives. Months as the saber rattling have culminated in a targeted killing by the u. S. And a missile attack by iran are the 2 sides on the brink of war for ready to batten down and out on to the point. In a small public cloud. Today dont miss our highlights w. Program. W dot com highlights. This is g. W. News coming to live from the u. S. In canada say its likely an Iranian Missile brought down the ukrainian passenger plane that crashed near tehran canadas Prime MinisterJustin Trudeau says multiple intelligence sources indicated a wrench shot down the plane u. S. Officials believe its highly likely that Iranian Air Defense systems it it i