In more than one hundred films. Also neva shouted to male. And those are the headlines innovator africa is next. For you. This is innovate africa a series highlighting innovation and creativity across a continent thats on the rise today how africas forging new paths in the world of entertainment. Puppets and politics topical comedy a new smartphone. In the form of. African superheroes on the rise in gaming i just love it i dont know because. Its virtually unlimited and in a new music platform featuring Award Winning african tower. Here in Africa Technology and the digital revolution are Opening Doors for homegrown talent in todays program we meet people who are taking african inspired ideas and creativity to a global audience i travel to ghana to meet a young man who is not only building a new industry but putting african superheroes in the spotlight. The players. The gaming industry is driven by Sophisticated Technology billions of dollars and more recently the excess ability of mobile devices. Here in gaza as capital city a crock a Young Company called lady odds has identified a new opportunity in game design by creating a uniquely african superhero universe. Policing this is new in. The gaming industry in the u. S. Is bigger than the movie and the Music Industry combine. The whole full cost of the companies to fill in the vacuum in africa to the game in industry in africa all come to the office as a team im going to talk on the opportunity is the need artist and he bring our superheroes like our vision and into sketch we are trying to make it tight its africa culture does bring in all the characters together to form a set and superhero cockles like that of rangers. I was very young. So we grew into nice food all i thought was. The rules. Make it fun to see what this is sort of cycles so this was the best comic i need to give i was always trying to copy. Western life something that i think that will got me thinking when i started growing up that we could make hula superheroes with africa. Traveling to africa smidgens video game where back to fighting game oh so you would have a combination of sort of modern day fight to act is mind combined with the ancient one. Yet. So we have. People who are fucked. Just like a man see so we have greedy president s and villains releasing him so any second to this occupation is going to take some of the. I when i was standing move in mythology just because i love the all in the of ranges so im seeing people looking at google be like wow this guy has really cool powers well where did he come from then become go and read on we keep on. And know that this guy is a villain actually. 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Somethings amiss you know what to expect but like i just love it i do not just love it. So we seem. To be the future for you see the gaming us to the future of our food and weve been yes its a strong but i want to be walking on the street and see a kid looking on a phone all. This and its not in a game but. A local game thats will be my greatest fulfilled and. Government control of the media has long been a feature of life in many parts of africa but today Information Technology is offering new platforms with censorship can no longer stand in the way. In many parts of africa expressing opinions about governments and politicians is a risk. In swaziland a newspaper editor and reporter have recently been jailed for criticizing the kingdoms chief justice and in ethiopia bloggers have been arrested and accused of using social media to create instability in the country. But as access to the internet increases and information is more freely available digital platforms are becoming soap box for thousands of young africans. Who need media is a Company Riding this wave of. Innovation. They have created africas first video on demand platform. T. V. Is a web and mobile Distribution Platform for high quality pan african videos. Young politically aware mobile phone uses now have access to material banned from broadcast content like the controversial x y z show is now available to anyone with a mobile phone and tonights. A follow up interview with the commander in chief is of the Kenya Defense forces and hes also the president of the people of kenya ma a real brother from another. R c c. What no no no no no you know that being at this you lead as commander in chief of obamacare does try to seem to follow you everywhere sir i hope they dont follow you to the big this week plus or there. Were no x. Y. Z. And show produced by bonnie at their studios in Nairobi Kenya is daring political satire often forbidding across most of africa them all you need to go because you need to do it all the shows aim is to provide an african audience with homegrown humor playing on local issues featuring carrot is that they can relate to threats thats what happened when we were dealing with the canals very seriously or i hope so indeed the bill is a working hard to keep you safe but the police are shooting people dead for example in nairobi we have a shoot to kill order you know to be on its gaff if it is a shooting suspect of blood. Were here at the go down our center and ill be speaking to the founders of the x. Y. Z. Show and hopefully meeting some of the famous puppets to. Keep the peace going on the ground. Im sitting here more busy. Than that satirical shows like this one have been banned from the airwaves in many african countries like the x. Y. Z. It showed bypasses the gay keeping as its freely available on any mobile device its also africas First Political satire Program Featuring a life sized latex puppet. So these are some of your heel character creations. Got home one is the most well known newspaper cartoonist in east africa three years his biting satire has provided political commentary and entertainment for an eager Kenyan Audience his cartoons with the inspiration for the x. Y. Z. So what is it about satire that appeals to you what. Is you know you come discuss very serious issues. Especially in this part of the world where certain subjects. Are off limits. They are no more goal is getting you guys over there but the whole my supposed to do dont have a cure plus this i just really. Was one of those and working towards. You know something about genetics and i see this one is barack obama and obviously in the american system theyre very very used to satire takes all kinds of different forms but even within that System People still get into hot water about how they represent their leaders and the things that they say have you ever had to deal with a situation where others felt that perhaps you went too far you know threats you know. Some politicians for turning to take us to court what we do is not about right and wrong its about provoking a debate about discussing serious issues. Hopefully we can make people think which character did you work on and you really felt like this was this was your favorite mugabe has always been fun to do or. Provides plenty of. Zimbabwes president Robert Mugabe is a regular feature on the show his multiple trips to singapore for mystery medical checkups have often provided working material for x. Y. Z. I have. A. Retiree my. Every time. I mentioned the shoes and the sea i feel is sharp he need my you know a. Good a very good boy style and you see. I. Strictly design. You know what they say about big feet. Do men with big feet should definitely run for their. So manuals you are the voice of the big guy himself president Goodluck Jonathan from nigeria how does it feel to be the voice of the president its one of those things you know. Its one of those things you probably get to do one thing your life its its fun now mr president i dont know if you seem x. Y. Z. But how do you feel and how does being be a big personally. My wife enjoys it as well since its something that i. Look forward to. Future. Looking at. Is the cofounder of cooney t. V. I would say your process for god is really an explosion of the media space of television of online community. So its a very exciting place to be definitely on the industry thats on the rice the x. Why is it show now has ten million online feelings when broadcasters refused to buy the show it was not really a guy who teamed up with gado to get it out there without the help of Traditional Group cost channels play. Deal wasnt what customers are not ready to pay for it in this market we will finance it to a different way and well go no crew or money from foundations and donors might be interested in the show that will talk about corruption and democracy in governance theres obviously the mold explosion across africa that means that everybody has a cell phone people now want content anywhere at any time on any device that they choose done ten seasons of the show so were on television were on radio were in buses weve done to be d. s and obviously were online im going to be as well thank you for visiting is to do is to hearten the best of the cost and we welcome you friends from china you are studying the right correct not you give me nothing is off limits x. Y. Z. Good the massive influx of Chinese Investment in africa is a rich source of material we have rules like he said coconut trees and fresh rubbish it says how could you not have the artistic Beautiful Hotel money just five hundred cheating so i thought it was maybe you dont always go for making me the discount been there for you. Four hundred ninety phone no no i dont know much tried my own tiny for oh look i show you i got the chinese meal got the no little goat thats also just bought. With the help of platforms like this one in large parts of africa politics is fast rising up the agenda of young people who no longer feel the need to stay a kid a sense to political subject. To. Be increasing popularity of the exwives it show is a sign of a true continental shift. I i. I i i do have any African Music doesnt african section Vinyl Records may be prized connectors items but some things from the vinyl era a best left in the past it was a time when many African Musicians were exploited by Record Companies and didnt receive the money all recognition they deserve musicians and composers were paid minimum fees which often included the rights to their songs but even in the new Digital World of online content sharing and using downloads many artists are still losing out piracy is getting in the way of African Musicians being paid their dues you know. Its best to have something latest like this from a Company Called spice that is trying to change that. Was a good. Example of that and this is the kind of thing that people are really trying to create Something Like this whole other artists that spice have Just Launched an app called easy. Cd is a growing online collection of popular music that can be accessed via any mobile device once the user has signed up and created a profile they can stream and listen to the music for free the files are encrypted so that they cannot be used outside of them cd construct. The app can share to Facebook Twitter email s. M. S. And the u. R. L. Can be copied so users can share their favorite tracks and artists to do it and thats fine for you to take a digital i ruin the guy is the c. E. O. Of spice and the city project leader was shot. Is a service that is focused on african continent spies as a matter of Service Company at least in africa is primarily. Entertainment value or Service Company content is therefore the most important element of what we offer to to the consumers and within content music surely is the largest piece. Youre quite in touch with how the current consumer likes to buy news a listen to music how do you think that this has changed from say ten years ago consumption of music more and more is happening on digital platforms these days what we believe is that streaming is going to be the biggest format in which people will consume music even in africa. People want music anytime anywhere using any device which is with them phone tablet or even their own laptops Services Like they offer that capability to the consumer because the content is actually stored in the cloud and it is not dependent on the capability of your device or the capacity of your device listen to me. There are no borders to to an f. And the artist gets visibility across borders not just within africa but even beyond that many of the artists we have a direct relationship with them almost eight hundred artists are signed directly to our company with a cease fire see as you already know is fairly rampant across Subsaharan Africa the artists they just console themselves that fine if ten thousand c. D. s of my songs are getting distributed at least my face my name is spreading across and then it helps them to become more and more popular when they want to do shows but thats not the way it is supposed to be they are supposed to be making money from every play of the song that they work very hard to create ok that unfortunately is not happening so when you are downloading the song using the app it does not actually download to your device it is download. Into the environment its an encrypted part of the data that has come to you and it can only be played as long as your a distraction is valid. One of the most popular artists is time in platinum a bangle flavor times onion hip hop artist hes also the bass and i know my oh. Thank you. That was awesome so damn and what do you think of the tanzanian music scene at the moment i music started to grow right now just dont go to sleep good good you know music obama for longer flavor like nobodys business youre in south africa tonight for the channel awards can you tell us how you nominated what are you going to be doing at the awards first of all i have four nominations its a big night for you telling im telling you are you feeling nervous how you feeling about it im kind of never a second. Im so excited also so i can away because theres people being voting for me and i believe in votes so youre going about are fickle go oh so if you believe in yourself or for a walk how we can get there and i believe in god we go our own test we got something that if anybody here that if it. Could. You know. That such. A huge issue for musicians around the world in africa particularly is piracy i want to. Use more painful was somebody download your song and send it to somebody else. So good thing about music if somebodys downloading your music. You got no chance decided somebody else so you have to go to as if you first knew you had to and just go and just sit on music you have to live from there. Finally with the arrival of the african artists made last be able to keep control of the rights to the music theyve made popular across the world but. Next time innovate africa how african scientists a fast track in the continents future. Looking to the stars to improve lives on the ground space in itself is on the quranic sector the one who has information about to quote kitchen and african scientists manipulating cells with light in some of their wake med and i do mean that ten science into science fiction. And a new innovation to bring low cost intimate to the remotest parts of africa. 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