Office and arrested amid allegations she colluded with a friend to take millions of dollars in bribes more on those stories at the top of the next hour in twenty five minutes time off to innovate africa which is next. 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 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 now in. The gaming industry in the us is a big movie and the Music Industry combine. The whole full cost of the companies to fill in the vacuum in africa to power the gaming industry in africa all come to the office as a team im going to talk on the opportunity is a 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 certain superhero calls like that of rangers. I was very young. So we grew into nice food all i thought was against the rules to make it fun to see what this is sort of cycles so this was the best comic i need the game i was always trying to copy. Western life something that i think that will get me thinking when i said to my growing up that we could make. Superheroes with africa our. Africa smidgens video game where its 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. So we have. People who. Fucked up just like a man see so we have greedy president s who are willing. To sell any second to this occupation if they felt. I was standing move in mythology just because i love the advantages 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. And know that this guy is a villain actually. Hes a pirate somalia pirates you do captain america was created at the time of war people needed supplies used to clean it so you also want to do with that you want to see. Given a call to. A monthly hey help me save to go see man do you. One of the lead characters of africas legends is a man still based on a character from him in the college and. We want him to be a boy and im nancy. Who is like an old. Hoss an old one look its mean the truth spider but im assuming spiders to split and we know he was a trickster and. So dont become a monster. This is the game theyve gone only on so if you read the announcer call me youll see the announcer was parts to craft of the foremost awful forces on earth keva how youve actually taken what the. In and the stories that into the game action so my goal is python as lying down there i have to. Pick up all my webs quickly now to tie him down. So if you go to the place google africas legends and you will see that. Everyone has bets on the form just for winning games on the. Play games people play games but they are not psyched to local content is to his quite difficult so. Is it quite difficult. We have to build those games to make people excited about. The press. A key goal of the emerging gaming industry in africa is skills sharing. Internship program is growing young gamers into design is. Kevin had an interesting story he intended. He didnt he doesnt have a computer enough to but he had produced stories and he did the nintendo d. S. Use what you have to in disposal to achieve your goals. Hes done. Stuff like he has. He writes stories design crap theres all this passion. I know its generation modulation this is just amazing and what is it that you like about the kind of storytelling and and capture in african stories that theyre doing it need to have. Stuff mixed up i really want to see what its all become like good. Some things im not sure what to expect but like i just love it i do not just love it. So we see it. To be the future for you see the gaming goes into the future of our food and weve been pioneers its a strong but i want to be walking on the street and see a kid who can on a phone all. This and its not in a game but. A local game that 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 soapboxes the 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 no. Its 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 that. One of you know the x y z n 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 a lot 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 police are 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 i 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 character creations. Got him 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 kick my ass and it works so well in this it was but it doesnt work. 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 sing the postal mistry 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. As they do men with big feet should definitely around. There. So many old 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 says its one of those things you know. Its one of those things you probably get to do once in your life and its its funny 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 i enjoy. My wife enjoys it as well since its something that i. Look forward to and for. Example. If youre. Looking at. Is the cofounder of cooney t. V. I would say your process for good is really an explosion of the media space of television of online beauty. So its a very exciting place to be definitely on the industry thats on the rise the x. Y. Z. And show now has ten million online feelings when broadcasters refused to buy the show it was not really a guy who teamed up with god to get it out there without the help of Traditional Group cause channels play. Deal wasnt what customs are not ready to pay for it in this market we will finance it to a different way and it will 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 most 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 one 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 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 dry correct not you give me nothing is off limits x. Y. Z. Did the massive influx of Chinese Investment in africa is a rich source of material we have he said coconut trees and fresh rubbish it says how could you not have the artistic beautiful how much money just five hundred cheating so. Much maybe you dont always know for making me the discount been there for you. Four hundred twenty five zero no no i dont owe much to trade my own tiny for oh look i show you a couple chinese meal got to know a 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 stick here since two political subject. To. Be increasing popularity of the exwives it show is a sign of a true continental shift. I i i i i i do how many African Music does africans actually 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 minimal fees which often included the rights to their songs but even in the new Digital World of online content sharing and use it 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 just trying to change that. I. Was a good. Example of that and this is the kind of thing that people are going to try and create some like this for all of the artists that spice have Just Launched an app called easy. Because it 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 artistically at that spot where you could take a digital i room 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 spy. As a mobile Value Added Service company at least in africa is primarily an entertainment value other Service Company content is therefore the most important element of what we offer to the to the consumers and within content music surely is the largest piece. Youre quite in touch with how the current consumer likes to buy new 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 Laptop 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 list. There are no borders to it 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 find 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 theyre 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 downloading to the music and vironment its an encrypted kind of data that has come to you and it can only be played as long as youre a distraction is valid. One of the most popular artists is time in platinum a bangle flavor or time zone in hip hop artist hes also the bass and i know my. Thank you. That was awesome so damning what do you think of the tanzanian music scene at the moment i music started to go right now i think go to sleep good good you know music obama the 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 feeling nervous how you feeling about it im kind of never a second. Im so excited also so i can away because theres people been waiting for me and i believe in whats so. Good thing about africa we go oh and change so if you believe in yourself if you walk out we can get there and i believe in ago our own test was something that if anybody here that if it. Was. A huge issue for musicians around the world in africa particularly is piracy i want to. Use more painful when somebody download your song and send it to somebody else. So good thing about music if somebody download your music you get no chance to send it to somebody else so you have to go to as if you first knew you have to and just go to just on music you have to write for it. Finally with the arrival of the cd 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 personal stuff is i look around expect im the one who has Information Dr the controls the future and african scientists manipulating cells with light in some of the way better i do in that ten science into science fiction. And a new innovation to bring low cost internet to the remotest parts of africa. Next time innovate africa. The scene for us where on line what is american sign in yemen that peace is always possible but it never happens not because the situation is complicated but because no one cares or if you join us on set there are people that are choosing between buying medication eating basis is a dialogue i want to get in one more comment because this is someone whos an activist just posted a story join the global conversation at this time on aljazeera. Are. Forced to be displaced by their governments in one nine hundred twenty three. It was very buggy greek and turkish villagers returned to their roots only most a century later. And reconnect with the past they thought theyd lost forever. People shouldnt be forced to move from dilemma where they were born. The Great Population Exchange at this time on aljazeera. From the Fam