Creativity is as good as gold, and thats exactly what we bring you on todays show. We travel to what is known today as gonna where much of the ashanti goals collections comes from to see how a modern artist is creating art in her own unique way to find out how congolese borns you, of vel, my longer has brought his International Casino training and made it local in his adopted city of kigali. And later in berlin, we visited calvin jones whose music exploded onto the scene, taking even him by surprise. I am pamela m tonga, and you are watching a 3 megs a to day im at the javin. You fee all saying dare to bring you a bit of gold history. Within these walls is the collection that showcases 350. 00 items from the 19th to early 20th century. These items mostly from west africa, give us insight until the art of the goldsmiths of the region. It is a rare glimpse into the wealth of african art history and culture before colonial room. But before we delve deeper into this incredible collection, join us as we visit a new breed of hair stylist, re came the much contested conversation about african hair. I really consider myself to be no ordinary stylist. I the physical ne, disappears. I really just disappear and creation takes over and i moved and when i then stepped back to look at this creation, sometimes im also amazed. African hair has always been a subject matter that everyone has an opinion about, sparking debates on topics around identity and conforming to white beauty. Ideals does the way in which African Women were, they, he really send out a specific message as black people will like expressing ourselves in different ways. We like rearing our hand different ways. The type of beauty that was marketed to us as black women was more of a western standard. So it was like a no goals zone for me to even tried to cut my hair and see what my natural hair looked like. But there they add them. Oh my goodness, i was like, im never ever going back again. I like changing my love quite often and having my natural for being type hey is here, but more difficult to maintain. For myself, its very easy to be creative with your wig. You could die. It whatever color you want, whereas theres a lot to consider when you have to put such chemicals on your own natural, hear me is, i mean, you do me a is a hair stylist, said your friend for hers. This is more than a crime today. Mimi isnt got the hong township johannesburg, collaborating with other creatives, while forging their own parts in the respects of industry and building their professional portfolios. For me, me, these huge showcase her talent, Opening Doors for her craft and uncovering her out of this world imagination in the here sleeve i label, i felt as a natural hair stylist, not disregarding anything else that doesnt fall under the umbrella of natural. And yes, we can play around with grades and weeks and weeds, but understanding that you are not though wig, when that wig comes off, you still need to be confident with the he that comes out of your skull. The can think of a test tooth is in essence, a collaboration between cri, those. This is a collaboration between our designers and Makeup Artist myself as the hair stylist and our photographer. We, i had just celebrating kasey lifestyle. When our photographer was like, we gonna have 2 very strong male models and well have 2 females. Our last weve never really seen male figures with like, you know, elaborate, structured head pieces. And i was like, i feel like this is my opportunity to take that chance and bless a king, you know, with his crowd my theater director from high school actually advised that i look into studying hatred, seeing its a him who was like smiley face to call me smiley, im not saying that youre not good in performing art, but this something that just lights up every time we have it via to play. Because you still interested in styling all these characters. I dont come from a family thats wealthy when you get to metric get you metric and thats it. Find yourself a job so you can help them based on the the siblings all kids that are growing up. And so when i went back and i was like, i will if you have my mom was just like, why are you leaving performing odds . A thing that has taken me to places and spaces. I remember i had just come back from germany on the top as yours is like why, why would you leave that to want to be busy with hey, for the longest of times they were just like a hope to hope shes busy with her home. Now they can see that it hasnt had its my life. Apart from styling models for tv and photo shoots. Me me runs her own hair studio from home. And she is full of tips and wisdom and making sure ones natural hair stays flourishing. And so were prepping the hair, we never ever handle the dr. Because we break it some water and destroy some fingered the tangling. Before we can get started, i feel like a plays a very significant role, especially with a spirituality. And i dont want to just record it and say african spirituality, spirituality as a whole, within our african, the rates of when theres a funeral. Here plays a significant role way the family may shed off. They have in morning there are women that are not allowed to show if they have to know community and only specific people are made to see their hey, you cover up. So i believe every time i touch someones hair, im touching more than the strength that i see the i am definitely inspired by our african ancient hairstyles. Because it, it kind of gives me a chance to re mix it the way i see. And how it plays out in my head. And theres no wrong or right when that happens, then only a few for weeks. And thats what actually makes a here to show you create a shaking of what design art and beauty is all about him. You are listen gonna is bringing her bright view all the world in the streets of our cra. Lets check this out. Ive been able to find in the culture i have implemented in my work, the northern passions that influence my work so much and then the one to most of my work also. I mean, it was who then the love, the support and the unity of the northern people. And i represent this whole merging my work to realize that my work is always really bright because it and very happy ah, i decided to and trying to art because is something that has always been in me. My mom was refreshing designer, her brother was a mere ellis, on my dads side to come from a long line of xylophone producers, which is also acting class in every so subconsciously i grew up in the presence of these things. And when it goes to the point, way, i have 2 in 5, i do need to push, i just knew that was something that was supposed to do my switch from having a career in cultural science. So i wasnt so smooth in the beginning, but also my career to close my family and everybody has been very, very supportive. My mom in the initial stages couldnt swap a head around exactly what i wanted to do, the acceptance. He was something that has so much, but in go to a point, she realized that she had to support him because there was no way i was backing down from an artist i made up my mind. And i mean, its how can i use cutting out the need for herself asked to go me willis in a cry when a bang uncles work is seen in many commercial buildings throughout the city. This self thought artist who made it in every quarter as the maiden name for herself in the hush mill, dominated, ive seen since she started working as a mule list in 2015. When it comes out, quarter fans and ours. The are kind of similar and not similar of the same time because on the field we practice things like cope for t, shin, land rotation, and thats as a skill. Like when it comes to corporate teaching, you have to know how to arrange your cups on the field for like a maximum, you know, when it comes to i implement the same tactic. I have to prepare for the week. I have to make sure i know how i went through teach, my colors will teach they patterns in the work. So in a way for me its similar ah, my work now such as mean the own philosophies like times. Hes really t 3 dont how to be yourself and be true to yourself and other morale philosophies. I try very much to incorporate things i have learned from my culture into my way to educate people on how to find them. So ah, as a mirror list, who has the ability to transform any factional space into a feast while the senses when a bang also paints on canvases . Ah, i do so my congress pieces, but for now i Say Commission will only portrays, i have put a hold on selling any of my actual pieces because im working on an art series right now, which i would hopefully exhibit before the end of the year. This as seems im working on, im with it. Take everybody on a trip into my mind to show you how i view things that are meant to be normal in the society. When a band continues to push the limits as her Creative Work brings excitement to one of our class biggest outdoor spaces where we begun to build the evening center, we had a couple of inspirations in mind. I said what you want to do for the outdoor space and in the, in the space. So we reach out to me about an own, contains of how we can transform the, our touch base, make it more artistic, can make it more stylish. And after the wake, everybody was like, wow, this work is beautiful and we think that as a business contributed to the present that we build here, it has contributed to im beings here. And weve had a couple of people coming in, wanted to book the place for musical coincides for dinner, simply because of their morale that we have on the wall. As someone who has to say its a big the stereotype and live my to so fast on arches is has served as a source of inspiration for talented gills. Who are like me and wants to be like me. This see that theres no limit to what they can do. They see the possibilities in living your choose and being who you want to be without having any negative repercussions. Ah, we no bangs up no matter on which canvas is the celebration of african patterns and colors. Shes shaking up the odd scene in ghana and breaking rules as she goes her. Ah today were visiting the gold of africa exhibition and with me is lisa told macola wholl be taking us through part of our history. Thank you for making time to show us this really fascinating part of our history being so long ago. How did the process of gold costing and creation happen when we only see humanity begin in africa, right. And, and everybody migrated to the rest of the world. So cities, certain practices that, that comes from and which is from this continent, especially on smell to you know, from, from iron age where iron was smell, touch me to the folks that were in this continent had to be out the scientific and think always and unit in ways of really transforming metals, true items that are of greatest beauty. Ah, how do we tell the history of gold, so steep and controversy for future generations. They are moments of referencing the sadness about the gold in the ownership of it. So it is owned by a european family and how it is collected overseas. They still needs to be research into it because we received the story courage. She is from the perspective of the buyer who bought this gold and the gold was kept as her africa instead of because a very important player in the co colonial excursions. Basically we are we where and i think in a way is still a soft lending sport. For atrocities that have been to the question, this gold was housed to sir africa by the comes from elsewhere. So it was part of the colonial cuddle, stealing a 4 leg off better weight because there is no record of 2 people like we for the transaction. And all these types of gold pieces still produce in the world today. Yes. And no. And i think that theyre been produced possibly as a form of re connection. But you still find in did artistic spaces that the, some artists who are beginning to go back and reference this, but also get translated into different kind of medium to no longer maybe making a gold artifact. But those symbol of symbols a statics are embedded in, in the patents of, of our dress black for example, beautiful dress. If you look at it and you reference some of the patents with objects, you begin to see this to level of reference. So theres been kind of translation translating this crops person ship in 2 different materials and formats. Thank you, mr. Macola, for showing us to this wonderful part of our history. Do a bell. My longest restaurant in kigali is a must visit where he is known for the fusion of fine dining and african cuz the he shows us why and how he created his signature dish homeland under the law under the test test this me ah, congolese born to a film a longer is a familiar face on the galley cruising scene. After working in 3 different mitchell in restaurants in germany, he returned to africa to treat dining experiences marrying his distinctly african ruth, what is your pin kitchen experience and training the result . A delightful fusion delectable new flavors and paste and stations. Today he has invited us to spend the day with him. I was born. I grew up in germany and i saw i live in france in france and kelly. And i can get it for music choice. People to see you should be doing the home and get it for me. So thats why i came back. They could be continent now. So we start the 1st project and run that shift in africa as a platform to create mission is like to connect ships in africa and that was so into just for out why do we do is like we share a connection with share information with different shifts and Different Countries, and that was so sometime we, we meet to talk about african ford. And we are in know, 45 countries in africa and ive seen america. And i took 2 years, 2015 and 16 to travel around the forgot to learn more about African Cruise in the talking about 54 countries mom. She was like diana sanmar. Thats why i take, does 2 years to 12 in Different Countries in africa, and also to learn about african prison i study. Ive studied in germany and its like i spent more time in africa and even to jewels whatever, learning germany like picnic and do the english and set to use that why even our present calling out for a fusion is in like, is a bridge of different cruising and africa do feel calls his signature dish homeland a colon, recreation that reflects his personal journey across africa and europe. What goes into it often changes depending on his location. Today, he makes it using various african mango varieties fish of a cato cream and an unusual but beautiful assortment of topping and seasoning homeland is like to fruits. You can have been, like most people have like mingled 3 or 4 cato liking for our menu today. We try to mix above mangling deprecated, and so we have fish, and we have some cream of advocate or, and some able fluwens of korea. So now we have, we have plenty to mingle domingo, and we will aid the little of cream of kato, you fetal lim on into honey and so in a little of mingo domingo, not you and our so we have are so, and we ate a little for competence flower and now we have our fish. So the fish who marinated to be for like 3 hours before we should go league ginger onions and out. So on top we have are, are, some are for commerce is a shoe spices. So is p not weve started dry unions and to finish in some of edible flowers to give the beauty. So this dish recorded homeland its time to get moving teeth and beads as we visit calvin jones in berlin and find out more about his journey to success with his b. Its get right under your skin. Cimbawe by a musician kelvin jones has a cheap world wide start m. Now people recognize him on the street. Just like here in berlin. But that wasnt always the case. As a child, he felt like he didnt belong. That in the times where i felt really like alone or skirt was actually it was moments at school. I was the only black kid in school like in the whole school there was no or the black kid. And my english wasnt so good as it was a crazy difficult time. The 1st i think 3 years or Something Like that. His real name is to nash him upon he. He was born in zimbabwe. In 1995, his family moved to a london suburb when he was 9. His new life was anything but easy, and he changed school several times. But this was also the time when he discovered music. As a way of expressing his emotions and fears youll be, ah, when i play music, i sort of understand the colors within the sound. I dont know how to explain that, but i understand thats way better than i do words. And i feel like i can express myself. This chord means more to me than any word that i could find. Got those eyes around. So my, so with his 2014 song call you home, coven jones, achieved something. Amateur musicians worldwide can only dream of a friend posted the song online and it went viral. Yeah. Reaching the ears of millions of people, i think will forever be the craziest night of my life. It completely changed my life and i couldnt. I couldnt take it in, you know, it was too big of moment to really understand my phone was non stop, just going crazy for about the whole week. He moved to berlin in 2016 since then. Hes released 2 albums with highly personal tracks. Like cry a little less, you know, the actually nowadays, the musician feels pretty settled in the german capital. I love. But when it comes to national identity, zimbabwe is the only country for kelvin jones. Thats where his roots are. His single carry you as an homage to his homeland, the video features, his friends and family carriers. The 1st time that i got zimbabwe into a song like i tried so many times and it was never organic, it never made sense. It was fake. And i had my guitar ones and i was like not on 7 me dawn and when your love is running low and the was something about this darling, that felt really like i could hear these harmonies already. I was like, all this is got something very zimbabwe about it. So i chased it. Thanks to his music, kelvin jones is now able to feel at home wherever he is, to the delight of his fans around the world. Thats all we had time for to day gashes on d w dot com forward slash api max little nice time. Thanks for watching. Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah ah, ah, a rare natural spectacle in an improved world. The mess movies have returned to the coast of the rhode island of say, a one of the many Success Stories from a bastion of bio diversity in 15 minutes on d, w. B, 2 african with climate change. Lighting the lives of ivory coast following their crops are especially vulnerable a possible solution. I grew forest tree. More and more farmers are wanting up to a. 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