I. Welcome to the program tensions are rising in tanzania ahead of wednesdays parliamentary and president ial elections in Major Opposition Party is accusing police of shooting least 9 people in the island region of the head of the poll the u. N. Has called on all political leaders to refrain from violence president is seeking a 2nd 5 year term as a child much. Decades his time in office has seen rapid Economic Growth but also in. Position on political dissent. Rallying his supporters before the election incumbent john magaw is running on an economy. Until recently was growing fast. I ask you my fellow tanzanians to vote for me on the 28th i want to bring new changes to tanzania you were all witnesses that in my 1st term in power i have brought a lot of changes to this country. But economic record has taken a hit from the coronavirus pandemic critics say the government has covered up tanzanias outbreak maghrib fully said the country had conquered the virus through prayer the government stopped updating its infection numbers earlier this year the opposition says thats part of a trend of suppressing bad news and press freedoms and brutalizing rival political parties. Heads a coalition of opposition groups he spent 3 years in exile after an assassination attempt he claims the government is ratcheting up its crackdown on rival groups. The kind of violence that we we see it were beginning to see. It is is is is different this time. Then he is cat and there will be violence because in a free and Fair Election fair and square. Voters see the 2 sides in starkly different terms sickness didnt. Know the road to what we see you cant guess if you know it was real dont you see it anything can just. Go into the seat. We are here because we are patriots and because we are tired of the oppression that is happening in our country. Our country has a lot of resources which could make it rich but unfortunately our leaders have a lust for power and are denying us that. The government has limited the ability of International Media to cover the election and denied accreditation to International Election observers thats cast further doubt over whether the poll will be free and fair for long. Hours and william who is covering the election he starts by telling us more about the alleged killings by the police on what that means for the election. So there have been such allegations insensible because they know position of supporters to go and vote today but its not the date heard today its as i said its only for the for the special groups. Runs about so but ive had 2 interviews. Together with Police Officers Police Officers in towns about and they have denied such allegations but they have say that there have been some confrontations with the police because some people were insisting to go in for today so there have been some confrontations but the police have denied such allegations but of course when you talk with the Opposition Party that basically was a window they emphasize that some people have been kid and the opposition leaders have also been arrested by the police ok there seems to always be some confrontations there in that country the president has been accused of crushing dissent and abusing his power what exactly is going on. So there have been allegations from various International Bodies towards tanzania that the current president is abusing his power i mean we have heard this from from the Reporters Without Borders complaining about the situation of journalists we have had recently that the government wanted their local media to get special interests in order to get connected to the International Media so we have also had that. Some people of have in of last current the current opposition president ial candidate for example to do this so was short almost 16 times so there have been quite some situations where by International Communities of all is said that the current regime itself or italian but of course with the current region there jim has been denying such allegations and for example with a case of too little being short several times ok these are some of these are some of the issues which investigations according to the government that investigations are still going on lets lets talk about the d. D. A. Itself what are the main issues people are voting on. So there are some people for example who who are voting for like new regime so they want changes serum has been in power since independence and even before this here theyre pretty says i was called tunnel so this has been a party which was in power which has been in power for so many years since the independence so there are some people who want to change they want to see what their opposition can do when they when they get their chance to the country so this is on the one hand the people who would support their position but are the other side they will be there are some people who see that the incumbent president has done a lot so when you look at Infrastructure Projects that have been quite some projects including their current. Project standard gauge rate they have been the president has been reviving the National Carrier yet in syria so some of the people who would wish that the incumbent president continue so that he can finish what he started away are those exactly ok you know we were brought up hours and william thanks for your time thanks. Lets now take a look at some other stories making news across the continent after postelection violence in guinea nearly 2 to 2 dozen People International voice of mediating the crisis of edge the west african government left the blockade of the home of the main opposition leader. Disputes the 18th or next in the results that have set the stage for that of president. In mozambique thousands of displaced people have arrived in the port town of pemba in the countrys northernmost province of kabul delgado the gas rich region has been under attack by extremist groups for the past 3 years the u. N. Estimates that more than 300000 people have fled their homes as a result of the insurgency. The former members of the Central African republic speaking 5 groups of symbolically handed over their weapons in the capital city to. This launch is effed up fees of the Community Violence reduction programs that by the United Nations mission in the country. Now. Against foreign nationals in south africa have become quite common despite the Government Action plan to combat that last year very little has been achieved so far and now a movement calling itself put south africa fast as volatile to ensure that none South Africans leave the country and that those who remain denied all the livelihood of what unities the group is accusing foreign nationals of committing crime taking their jobs and even making the cities dirty. Has more from johannesburg. I was right and employment hang. On west and by 1000. Foreign nationals in south africa being accused of or kinds of i think citizens. And there is not there our victims of the internals and violence dozens have had their shots looked at the rest of violence in 2018 more than 60 people were killed in that year. The recent invasions of a Group Calling itself put south africa 1st has not meant for the nationalist scared that if most of us wave of xenophobia violence could erupt this group. Made up of Different Community organizations is home to protest demonstrations and protests across the country asking for the nationals to pick and live should understand the position of citizens when they see as. Much or 2 of the foreign nationals in the country the bad people one percent is good the rest they need to go back to Human Rights Watch dogs egging government to spin to attend to the concerns of the groups such as put some of the fest before things get out of control react differently worried that this is now going to you know break out into again the same type of xenophobic silence it received over and over that they cant 2008 last year you know so and you know unfortunately what the difference between now and before is that its becoming organized South African authorities saying no this moved to the posts of the 1st movement was there just that it is memorandum of demands young South African into the mcdowell recently lost ahead joe. She insists that only a handful of for the nationals should be announced and to the country and us the conditions where did she take the bus police got killed because they killed stepped up to the gills and we thought the kids could kill us right but for 53 year old ibrahim or how many this is an extreme lot of development to go to the 2008 xenophobic virgins in south africa hes come on and beaten shell was in one of his brother killed. The food. You so much stuff is in the food you better off blood loss on the road often dont just focus on the food was removed by the greater good and that he was made minus to his dad his life again and he is now with the problem or not you buy him a coffee shop in mayfair to hans make. For now the mall of all stories you can check out www dot coms lost africa soul you can go to our facebook and twitter pages by a snob see you soon. Literature invites us to see people in particular that i like to see as the kids find the strength growing up. My own trying. To share work afraid. To do the books on youtube. Drama competition drives marketing numbers atmosphere by the time and. Money millionaire the family problems. And friends. Because we. Kick off on you tube. Hello and welcome to our sin culture an exhibition by South African artist and filmmaker william cantrip is always an event will get the lowdown on a major show thats just opened in hamburg and also in the pipeline. Pulitzer prize winning author ayad akhtar tars latest book homeland elegies blends fact and fiction in a searing commentary on the existential crisis of being american today. William cantor it is one of the worlds most important visual artists working today he uses multiple media and is well known as a theater and on proto rector but drawing is always his starting point his way of thinking aloud and as a White South African a way of reckoning with his countrys painful past history which is why its now the focus all of the retrospective why should i hesitate putting drawings to work. Magical films between disintegration and creation. It all begins with a simple charcoal line. Drawing itself the essence of the multidisciplinary artist william cantrips. An exhibition in hamburg gives an overview of the South African artists graphic works. Also one displays some of the famous films created from his strong. Point. He brings into a perhaps cold medion film something handmade and warm this is aside from the topics he addresses which have to do with apartheid and with this rather brutal industrialization found around johannesburg. Hartness book. Again and again the works return to exploitation racism and violence against black people. Pics that cantered has been familiar with since childhood. His lawyer father represented victims of apartheid his mother also fight for human rights. But that hasnt resulted in cantered feeling obliged to see himself as a political artist this works or rarely has an m. B. A. Give us as with this refugee boat its the ambiguous sometimes and it magic that makes his work so exciting. Cantered also has a sense of humor. Hes no fan of big mouths or ideologues and silences them using his own unique methods. His artistic commentary on the maoist cultural revolution was not well received in china racism. Racism post colonialism and especially the african perspective on europe not always looking from europe to africa these are the big topics of debate today. The insides of our hearts the scooty its. The william country it is not concerned with being topical. His work is too complex for that. In all of his roles are prowar theater director actor or artist the humanist shines through and that cantor is also presented to wonderful effect in hamburg. And William Kendrick joins me from just outside of london today its a pleasure to have you on the program mr can trace im interested yes and im interested in the title this idea of hesitation because uncertainty is such a light motif through much of your work tell us whats behind it please. I suppose im interested in texts which are riddles that you cant solve so why should i hesitate it could even mean why should i hesitate theres nothing to hesitate for let me go straight to it or trying to ask why is it that i do his update. And its us post about the uncertainty of meaning you think youve been something down but then you discover its meaning is elusive so i think its puts provision morality and doubt at the center of the exhibition. There and theres also this very strong focus obviously on drawing your one of your your main way of understanding the world and as something very reminiscent of childhood what is it about drawing as such that so vital to your artistic identity and its there and innocence about it perhaps thats common to all of your explorations in other media i wouldnt say that this is an innocence but theres a its about thinking through the body when a child will so the make a drawing its not necessarily about being able to follow a thought and get it down on paper its somewhere between a desire to have an image and seeing what it is that your hand produces so its both about thinking in the moment thinking aloud withdrawing but its also allowing the muscles the impulses these im conscious thoughts to shape the work that you are making and for me drawing is the most practical and the most efficient and the most natural and physical of forms to work so its not all paint and its not a computer its the hand and a piece of charcoal and some paper. Thats very interesting that this is of course one of the largest presentations of your word today that spans over 40 years of your production how do you feel when you see it all pull together there into this particular narrative especially against the backdrop of this or extraordinary year with things like the pandemic and obviously the racial unrest in much of the world did anything rag surprising perhaps a resonate in a new way well well you know the exhibition was 1st shown in cape town a year ago it was the before the code. Could one of the major pieces in it is is a piece which is about this pandemic polluted made 5 or 6 years ago at the time of the a bone epidemic in west africa but its images of the dance of death of death leading people the way they would in a medieval drawing and to dance against it the way bill ijaz would dance to let the play part of them by obviously has very strong echoes with where we are today thats part of the fact of covert being that exhibition us opened in both but its not yet been possible to travel from johannesburg to hamburg so im hoping to get that during the run of the exhibition. And to see how it feels in a different space obviously an exhibition changes every time it moves its a mixture between the work thats there and the space its shown in and and it looks beautiful and dr hunter im sure it does not just quickly politics plays such a huge role in your work and of course your own biography how do you see the political role of our ted at this stage of your career. Well im interested in an art that can reflect things which arent usually there in political art that is to say that can reflect the ambiguity the paradoxes the contradictions of the political so normally when one thinks of political art one thinks of something of the clear agenda with just statement that the single minded and for me that doesnt reflect the absurd and that in the paradoxical in the world some interest in an art which has a space for not knowing quite what something might mean why understanding that something can mean one thing that one moment and shift its meaning with a series of different circumstances uncertain images 2 to reflect the uncertainty of our times william can trades in hamburg until april 18th and thank you so much for joining us today william can trade in my pleasure great britain. Well just one week to go until the u. S. Election and in the lead up we are gauging the mood of multiple artists and creatives to get their take on a polarized america i have is an american born playwright and novelist of pakistani heritage and his newest book draws on his own life to tell the story of a nation coming apart at the scenes we live in a corporate totalitarian autocracy and arcturus books have been translated into more than 20 languages hes also written Award Winning plays like disgraced. God. And i think hes going to try. Yes. In his new novel homeland elegies describes the experiences of an author he named he had a doctor whose father is a doctor who treated donald trump may have become a trump supporter. The writer wont reveal what in the book is fiction and what is fact but his view of america is clearly expressed in its pages. I think in the last 50 years and this is the story that i tell in the last 50 years some notion of a collective good began to evaporate and what rose out of that dissolution. Was a commitment a fierce commitment to the individual. I what i want what i need america is about protecting my rights my rights to have a gun if i want it to make as much money as i want to use whatever bathroom i want its all the same thats not a vision of a collective society. Until recently new york was known as a center of art and culture the city has been blaze trails that the rest of the world follow now survival especially the economic kind is the main priority and not just for artists in 2016 almost 80 percent of new yorkers voted democrat donald trump is a republican president who has been vindictive. If hes reelected residents here fear it will become even harder to get federal funding to fix the Coronavirus Crisis and the u. S. Has already been seen recurring on the last for instance over black lives matter and over measures aimed at stemming the spread of covert 90 the words civil war are frequently used what will this countrys future look like if it continues down this path. The possibility for real violence in the country could its real that could happen but i dont know how the next few weeks are going to unfold but there is a scenario in which contested power leads to trump calling for resistance and if that happens then i think the gloves come off. Regardless of who wins the election many find it difficult to feel optimistic about the Current Situation and what lies ahead for america difficult but not impossible. Im optimistic about the present im optimistic about the joy that one can experience here and now with those one loves doing things that one loves to do helping others. But i dont think. Any of us is going to escape death so im probably ultimately pessimistic. I mean thats what you get when you ask me a question like that. Well in her nearly 60 year career barbies been a princess and a Storm Trooper and in mexico for the upcoming day of the dead festival theres a traditional incarnation of the iconic doll with us designed something fancy as a tribute to mexicos most colorful annual celebration but critics feel its Cultural Appropriation of big name brand cashing in on a ritual worthy of respect till the day of the dead is celebrated on november 1st and 2nd and is on unescos list of intangible Cultural Heritage an interesting debate and food for thought to close the show thanks for watching and until next time the muscle brain and chips. Connected by children in india. Used. By cosmetics companies. My god is a war material thats mine highly risky conditions. Combining business with conscience its a balancing act for the manufacturing industry. 3000. And 30 minutes on d w. 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