Germany: The discreet lives of the super rich | DW Documentary

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germany's super rich no other european country has as many billionaires and while their fortunes are growing more and more germans are living under the poverty line set by the organization for economic cooperation and development the oecd the press frequently reports on the country's high income inequality and low social mobility but little is known about the super rich sure money attracts success and success attracts money i do believe that i've experienced myself how you can suddenly connect with people previously out of reach who are germany's super wealthy how do they live and how do they see the country they live in the way wealthy people in germany are talked about bothers me because it's sensationalizing and sycophantic and in no way reflects what wealthy people have done and continue to do for this country it creates this impression of rich people being like scrooge mcduck that they have these money bins in which they wallow in their coins we wanted to get closer to the discrete world of germany's ultra rich of company owners and heirs worth millions we wanted to find out what makes those on top of the world tick every year an exclusive event takes place in the schloss hotel kroenberg near frankfurt to which the public is not invited it's the annual hall of fame evening for the business monthly manager magazine hardly any other occasion in germany draws as many wealthy business owners esteemed presenters dear jury members dear ladies and gentlemen welcome to manager magazine's hall of fame when we first founded the hall of fame in 1992 we wanted to take a stand for excellence and unconditional entrepreneurship and against faint-heartedness and averageness we begin our nominations today with ralph domamut his company united internet is valued at around 11 billion and on our list of germany's richest people he ranks 25th with a personal wealth of 4.5 billion euros collectively the guests at this elegant evening are worth billions of euros this is the face of wealth in germany mainly male and although we're close to the super rich here their world remains somehow out of reach hamburg home to manager magazine's parent company the spigo group hardly any publication keeps closer tabs on germany's ultra rich every year the magazine's team gathers information on wealthy germans and using the forbes model makes a special edition with a list of germany's 1001 richest people it's painstaking work how many billionaires are there 180 190 last year it was 136 right no last year it was around 170.

170 okay needs to have around 100 million that doesn't have to be money in the bank most people have it as assets or as property but that's the ballpark we're looking for to be on our list of the richest germans editing chief stephen klusman has been around germany's ultra wealthy for years what does it take to get on the list i'd say that the top 150 spots on our list will always go to company owners and heirs even if you're a chief physician you'll need to see a whole lot of patience to become a billionaire managers also have a hard time getting that high up here in germany there's a debate about whether the heads of dax companies earn too much but if you compare it to what people in similar posts in the u.s the uk or china earn it's peanuts so that alone can't ever make you one of the truly ultra rich vans creating a list of the wealthiest people is especially difficult in germany though not because there aren't enough of them he somehow managed to amass this huge empire and fortune in just a few years his wealth is estimated to be around 4 billion he's the least known super rich would you let us interview him at home they prefer to fly under the radar to avoid envy the super rich don't like to out themselves so to speak these home stories yeah you can normally only get interviews inside the homes with second tier ones there you'll always get guys who get a kick out of publicity like mr marshmallow and such getting a good shot of mr marshmeyer is never a problem but the real money keeps itself hidden the super rich try to go unnoticed sometimes they even try to hide there are no photos of several people on our list you won't find a single picture if you go online and google them there hasn't been a photo of the hyman's german is rich's family for decades many stay hidden because they want to live normal lives and think that they won't be able to do so if they're known to be multi-billionaires for months our interview requests were rejected agreed film sheets were cancelled last minute none of the rich wanted to talk to us about money finally we got lucky in the financial hub frankfurt here in a prime location tucked behind the bank towers sits the asset management company 4com manages german business families fortunes its chairman christian van bechthelzheim provided some insight as to why rich germans are so shy the many wealthy germans are reluctant about stepping out into the public eye because they're afraid they could be seen negatively they ask themselves what do i get from showing myself to the public it doesn't give me it could lead to some crazy person taking note and breaking into my home or kidnapping one of my children and those fears are not unwarranted then there's also the fact that many heirs are inheriting fortunes that are somehow tainted by or related to the third right the upper tier of rich germans avoids publicity as if it were the plague but what are they so afraid of i asked a number of my friends whether they'd like to be interviewed for this film and each one said no they'd say someone else can do that better than me i can't do it right and i might come across wrong they think they'd have much more to lose than to gain after a lot of back and forth with this press team one ultra rich german did agree to meet us michael otto is the chairman of the supervisory board of the otto group and one of the 10 richest germans we asked him why germans are reluctant to show off their wealth any worry doing so would lead to envy in the u.s achievement and wealth are seen in a highly positive way but here they carry a bitter aftertaste where does his fortune come from or how did he get his wealth poor his mother ran a small drugstore in post-war hanover her son had bigger plans in 1972 the idea of opening the first self-service drug store in germany came to him today he's a multi-billionaire why was he happy to step into the spotlight in the early years it was just about getting the name out there so when i was invited to a talk show on a small regional channel i liked going because i thought free publicity for my company but then two or three years ago i started to understand that this slightly flabby balding man whose teeth aren't perfect was hungry for recognition himself back then i thought i was stepping into the limelight to promote the company but everyone rationalizes their motives and i did too within 40 years crosman became the most profitable drugstore chain in europe with stores in six countries in 2018 a total of 56 000 people were working on the chain rossmann is active in other business areas as well and he speculates on the stock market the largest is valuated between 80 and 100 million depending on the stock rate so it's a fair sum there are also shares in different industries would be boring with 55 000 employees you're not really a medium enterprise anymore you're in another league we're back at manager magazine in hamburg where photos with a special issue are being selected the list of the richest germans includes a notably high number of company owners from the so-called medium-sized businesses it's a german peculiarity and it's not the only one the cover story for this current issue is that last year money rained down on germany's super rich up here we have the shepherds the matriarch and her son who now owns eighty percent mom has kept only twenty the shepherds have been at the top of our list for many many years i'd have to check exactly how much they're worth but around 20 billion give or take a bit down here we have ms head of the henkel clan she's the first and so far only woman chairman of the supervisory board of one of the 30 dax companies germany's economy is still extremely male dominated what's interesting is if you compare our list here with a list of the ultra rich in the us we have a lot of old money old companies that have been around for decades in the us you have all those lads from facebook google snapchat and so forth that have bubbled up to the top of the list we don't have that type of thing and here with other countries germans are very reticent about showing their wealth very few germans sail around in boats like this usually that's americans russians chinese and so on here you don't really show your money you might have various houses villas and such but there's likely to be a volkswagen parked out front it seems the average ultra wealthy german is rarely conspicuous unlike in the us athletes actors and tv personalities rarely make it onto the german list even though we put a great deal of love and sweat into estimating these fortunes they're probably much bigger especially if we're talking about urban real estate where prices have exploded over the past 10 years a lot of people have doubled their property assets so if you started with 5 billion in that market you're likely to have 10 or 15 billion today money makes money but while rich german's fortunes have exploded since the financial crisis due to the increase in value of real estate stocks and assets those with average incomes have had to swallow losses even liberal economics institutes are concerned about social inequality in germany how do the super rich see this disparity the uber shift in that item the headline in the newspaper reads the rich are getting richer and richer which is true the rich are getting richer yes it's true but it's also false there are 20 million citizens in germany who have assets worth between 100 000 and 1 million so millions of people are getting richer now the rich are getting richer even faster because one factor is probably that they can dedicate much more time to increasing their wealth of the left party would likely say split up your wealth but my response is i also do things for the world which i live in i don't just take i'm not a socialist though i can only do things because i have things michael otto is one of the rich his wealth has increased he successfully transitioned his mail order business into a digital enterprise over 20 companies now belong to the otto group we wanted to know how otto sees the debate about rich and poor do the rich understand the worries of the poor when people talk about those on top who don't understand those at the bottom i wouldn't say that applies to me this is because i was not born rich i came to hamburg as a refugee from west prussia and my father had to start from scratch that's why i absolutely do understand people living in poverty today on the other hand i'd also say that if germany is getting more and more millionaires meaning people with small or medium-sized businesses because generally the millionaires in question did build a business they now run then i think that's great because they're the people creating jobs for me that's what should matter in this debate we should focus on that and not rich versus poor i'm right ensuring that the wealth of rich families can increase despite current zero interest rates is the mission of christian von best health science company each day he and his employees send out investment opportunities from banks and other entities given exclusively to his wealthy clients this is a way to present an offer to just a handful of valued clients and folks is it fair that rich germans are able to increase their wealth while the rest of the population gets left behind i think it's difficult to apply terms like equity and fairness to the distribution of wealth i would say that here in germany we're better off than ever before and people here live in above-average circumstances nonetheless we have to make sure the gap between rich and poor doesn't get too wide because we don't want social conflicts like in the us or latin america to happen here is a so-called multi-family office family officers take care of the needs of very wealthy families managing and increasing their assets it only makes sense to use family offices if your wealth is upward of 30 million euros who can afford such a thing this is clutters and well a family office like ours obviously can't discuss its clients we have well-known german business families that's our typical client profile someone who is or was a company owner thinks differently to someone who has spent their life as an employee or they are families who have had money for a long time so wealth is so to speak in their genes and then there are families who have just come into their wealth who are still pumping with entrepreneurial energy plenty of this entrepreneurial energy his company is mcfit europe's largest fitness studio chain its headquarters are in an old baking factory in berlin reiner schaller started off small but today his wealth is valued at 250 million euros i was born near bomback and grew up in a small village normally in villages you do the sports available and when i was around 1516 my role models were arnold schwarzenegger and stallone that's how i came to the fitness world schaller went from secondary school to complete a salesman apprenticeship and became the manager of three supermarkets then he decided to start something new when i was 25 i decided to switch to the fitness industry my idea was to open a gym where anyone could train no matter his or her income that was the initial idea and i had big goals i wanted to be number one in europe but that's all i had i didn't have financing uh okanggild it was 1997 when shala opened his first fitness studio in wurzburg close to his home village he made use of some unusual methods was a i opened my first fitness studio there under the slogan now also in wurzburg which people saw through as a marketing gag because customers came to me and asked where else we had studios so i gave it some thought and came up with the next marketing gag on soon also that did the job and also put me on track to going from wurzburg to erlangen and then it grew from there ten years later reiner schaller reached his goal he's number one in europe and still expanding mcfit now owns 10 fitness companies as well as its own model agency meanwhile chana is getting ready to open fitness studios in the us getting to be number one is much easier than staying number one i think if you want to be successful you need to be a bit of an alpha animal inside the investor would probably pick a brand and say okay that could work i like it although it's probably two steps too far for many but if someone doesn't want to get involved with us because of it i'm convinced that you have an easier time if you've fought your way to the top and to success clients feel it and so do partners i think that's our situation which is why i can also imagine that someone who inherits something or takes over or even has to take over a company in the second or third generation will have a much tougher time but there are plenty of heirs in germany huge fortunes and thousands of companies have been passed from one generation to the next they are heirs who don't want to and others who shouldn't take over their parents businesses succession is hugely important among germany's richest michael otto inherited the mail order company from his father and successfully managed it it will be harder for my children though because now the otto group has 123 companies in over 30 countries i know every single company either because i was involved when it was founded or because i led the takeover negotiation but my children don't yet know the many companies otto's children have opted against direct succession i think it's important to give your children the option without pressuring them so you don't force them into a role i think that mistake is made often and i'd say it's bad for both the children and the company so now we have one point of sale are you a bit tired yes it's been an exhausting couple of days in 10 minutes i'll be fine again it was just bam bam bam bam boom boom boom deer crossman also spent a lot of time considering who his successor would be it's now decided raul rossmann the younger of his two sons will take over as manager of the drugstore chain well do we actually sell much yarn it's not exactly part of a drugstore's range the trend sort of over it was big in 2016 already fading in 2017 and it's been stagnating in 2018 but it's not the worst product we have and it still brings in some revenue rail's father had to show him the appeal of being in charge when the boys got more engaged i thought oh now we can't look as if the drugstore business is only about making money so i showed them how we're all so active in social issues in africa and so forth i've always showed my sons that what we do isn't just about making money it's also about being responsible for others as a child i wanted to become a film director that was always my dream it still is today might be thinking no i don't want him to be a director i want him in the company so i said well go ahead and become a director but being a director of such a big company is also exciting i did manipulate him a bit i'm often asked whether i feel competitive toward my father and sure he built up this big company that i'll only take over but it's really difficult to keep something going these days the founding period has its own challenges and just having the idea of founding a self-service drug store was hugely innovative but the fight to survive has gotten tougher and that's the one i'm in everyone in my family wants to be good at sports my father and i battle each other in tennis we all compete with one another and that's also shaped our view of life or mine at least despite their competitiveness the rosman family reached a harmonious agreement with regard to succession i normally prefer playing doubles that's much more appropriate for men my age i'm starting to worry a bit about you you worry about me well with your inheritance i wouldn't worry i'd be looking forward to it selecting airs and successes is usually not quite as amicable as at the horseman's christian van bechterszeim has seen many inheritance disputes in rich families it's his job to preserve the family's assets and protect it from all sorts of dangers and for merchants maintaining a family fortune over several generations is incredibly difficult because it's under threat from being divvied up through inheritance from wealth disputes from expropriation from wars or simply from stupidity most families will have one or all of these happen to them only a handful of families have managed to stay more or less afloat over centuries but those right on top have been switched out again and again speaks from personal experience his own family's history dates back 900 years i have a horribly long name at least on my birth certificate there's my six given names christian lotan ludwig hugo wilhelm and maria as a good catholic followed by barron von mauchenheim gnant bechteltheim but at work i'm normally called mister von bechtel's heim and at social events baron or lord baron baron von bechtelsheim is an indirect successor of the figures the richest family in german history when does wealth begin for you if you're asking me at what point i consider someone to be truly rich i would say over a hundred seconds i am definitely not rich i was kidding but i'm comfortable and our family is comfortable and i'm certainly not complaining when you have a family history as long as mine your family has seen everything near bankruptcy years overflowing with money and years when a lot was lost he takes us to the hunting lodge of the baytorsheim family in turingan it looked like the lodge had been lost forever during the division of germany the house was built in 1892 as a hunting lodge for my great great grand uncles it's been in the family ever since except for a short interval it was expropriated in 1952 and then restituted in 1992.

and since then i've owned it the family's hunting lodge survived expropriation and socialism without much damage today from beitharsheim also owns hundreds of hectares of forest nearby and regularly invites business acquaintances for hunts a recurring topic in the special issues of the manager magazine are the super wealthy's networks there are larger and smaller networks and there are a lot of them and most even we journalists don't know about in high society there are certain typical hobbies horse racing hockey a bit of tennis though that's almost old school they'll meet in the boxes at major football stadiums because of course they're all football fans football is huge a lot of networking happens there that's like their marketplace they mingle and meet there more than at so-called parties for the rich party we always have a lot of employees here we have a lot of friends in the box because jim fifa is here today germany's most famous criminologist sometimes someone from politics comes by christian wolf and bettina are part of my close circle of friends so there's always lots going on here in berlin reiner schaller is opening a new club a new branch of his fitness empire shallow also has become a member in the network of important people from the sports business and entertainment industries sure money attracts success and success attracts money i do believe that i've experienced myself how you can suddenly connect with people previously out of reach i am in a different position here ah dear crossman is ready to leave his box he wants to celebrate the victory with his friend the billionaire and hearing aid company owner martin kint kint is also co-owner and president of hanover 96.

his box is located on the other end of the exclusive vip area i told you we'd win today i told him that if we didn't win he'd pay 10 million that was the bet right i never said that yeah here we have it two halfway decent man networks are important for business but do the rich also have political clout can political influence be bought in germany the best way available for rich or super-rich people in germany to exert influence is the number of employees working in their companies someone who owns a company with a hundred thousand employees or let's say less maybe 15 000 employees can go to business associations and say but that will cost me or an even better argument is that will cost you 2 000 jobs in that area but there are no super rich people who regularly call out the ministers or ms merkel and say what needs to happen next which tax laws they'd like and so on that's not how things work here in germany the deadline for the special issue is approaching the heart of it is the ranking of the 1001 richest germans what do the rich think of this ranking is a ranking synth those rankings are for entertainment they're scraped together sometimes using stock market quotations but they aren't reliable in any real ways i don't think much of these rankings and i didn't want to be included because it creates this impression of rich people being like scrooge mcduck that they have these money bins in which they wallow in the fact that i'm at the top of the rankings including of the wealthiest germans does make me feel proud i'll read manager magazine every now and then one of these is that rhinoceros now wants to open the world's largest fitness center in north rhine westphalia let me ride the mirai is japanese and means the future we think it's a perfect fit for the whole concept and vision because what we want to create here is truly unique and has never been done before our goal is to become the world's fitness center fitness center schaller thinks he's found the perfect location to realize his vision in oberhausen he's rented an old factory complex at the moment the space is still being used to make steel parts but before long thousands of customers will be exercising here the emergency exits path will be here and the office is on top shallow experienced his most traumatic experience to date in the area in 2010 21 people died and 54 were injured in a stampede at the love parade in duisburg shulla had been the parade's organizer the cause of the panic has still not been conclusively determined how does an entrepreneur in the fast lane deal with that kind of tragedy an event like that will haunt you always for the rest of your life i've got a moral responsibility i was the organizer if i could turn back time i would do it immediately with the scale of what happened but you can't make it undone you have to try to deal with what happened has also seen setbacks and crises in the 90s we expanded dramatically into the czech republic hungary and poland i was also speculating on the stock markets a little too much and neglecting the company then in 1996 we suddenly had a loss of 12 million deutsche marks the banks don't joke around if you're highly indebted and then you come in with huge losses that was critical and then i had a heart attack in 96.

but everyone knows that life can get tough and things got very tough back then so i dialed back a bit including stock speculation i sold them all and thought the only thing on my table now is pulling the husband drugstore business through and up it was the right move to focus on one thing and not do so many different things emerged from that crisis stronger than ever he started speculating again but so he assures us only with his private wealth i don't have a laptop i normally do this via ntv text 254.

Here it says gas problem is it 375. i could already sell those now i bought 250 000 of those so 250 000 times 20 cents that would give me 50 000 euros profit but i won't sell i think it's gonna rise to four euros sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't but i enjoy it that's why i don't play the lottery because i find that boring can a large fortune also be a burden i'd say that for most people although they wouldn't voluntarily give away their money for example they'll move to switzerland or somewhere to save on taxes and give up their entire circle of friends and basically become a slave to their fortune in my opinion that's absurd considering the conditions we currently have in germany conditions in germany are currently more favorable than ever for the rich they pay significantly less tax than they did 25 years ago only a minority still feels compelled to immigrate abroad article 14 of the german constitution states property entails obligations its use shall also serve the public good do the rich in germany live up to this responsibility i think it is important if you're successful if you're lucky enough to have reached a certain level of prosperity and wealth to give something back to society for me that's a given michelle otto is one of germany's biggest donors his money helps fund the environmental cultural and social sectors like most rich people he prefers to decide himself what he spends his money on rather than leave that to the state otto like many wealthy germans donated millions for the construction of the ed philharmonie in hamburg in germany wealthy people like to donate and this makes important contributions to society and public life but generally they're against the proposal of redistributing wealth by a higher taxes for the rich the deutschen film and foreign if german businesses would yield to all the demands of let's say ms wagenknecht to the left party then millions of people would be happy and things would be good for a while because millions of people would have more money i know but a true redistribution of wealth has never led to more social justice in the long term not in any of the political systems that tried it it led to the impoverishment of these countries christians home sees higher taxes on the rich as dangerous i don't think much about this so-called rich tax for two reasons firstly the terminology alone is stigmatizing and we in germany should avoid that and secondly the rich tax wouldn't do any good on the contrary it would cut into the backbone of the german economy because the typical german rich person is a medium-sized business owner they make up the backbone of the german economy and if we want to destroy that we have no one to blame but ourselves the special issue is ready things have basically stayed the same the rich have a few billion more the richest one percent of germans now has personal wealth worth a quarter of the country's assets while a quarter of adults have no wealth or are in debt for this report we never really got access to the world of the wealthiest germans they prefer to fly silently under the radar away from the public eye until the next award ceremony you

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Welcome to your true story of Africa Charity is the safest place in the world The oppressors were rotten food In the fields we sometimes sleep hungry and it's so painful All over sub-Saharan Africa, filmmakers capture local food stories and famines from Senegal to Nigeria east to Kenya and Zimbabwe. Millions of Africans starved to death in the south. It came hard because before this epidemic we have their problems and find something to feed them own family and many of us have lost a job because it has come we sometimes sleep hungry and it is very painful as you know for me a father who has to fight for the family to get some some food on the table is very good painful yes yes the virus I'm scared but if now when but now I can't stay at home go out and fight for my family I'd risk my life to keep food on the table for my family Things are getting too expensive food is going up because the other provinces are the ones keeping this food for themselves Many countries have the knee boat They show that the national change began when the export crisis began.

EU restrictions on medical exports had a major impact outside the home Rowe announced that when the world's largest exporters of these products, such as Kenya and Nigeria, were the world's largest exporters of grain, such as Ukraine, India and Russia, restricting supply, this increased demand for food across Africa, and prices have been pushed up. These are now pre- coronavirus. And before this was five hundred and now I say him seven hundred he's actually six hundred six oh four I think I 've done a thousand thousands I know one I'll put it on one of the most immediate impacts were the small farmers markets in the street markets most of the small farmers couldn't take their country food But to the market means those who are trusted.

This market was not there for their food supply. They couldn't get the food . Food is ridiculous. There was rotten food in it. Farms and people were starving because they couldn't reach it. Greed exposed how complex global supply chains are. Global North-driven disorders and prevention. Africans grow even when they can't export the food they eat. Africa can grow all its own food, but 60 percent of the world's unused arable land is imported by the continent. More food than it exports is bought domestically, with some countries buying a staggering 80 percent from European colonial control.

Later, most of Africa was completed in the 1960s (from 6-7-9-9) to move the Global North. It has taken over the dominance of trade in Africa Europe and we have limited our ability African farmers to compete in their huge markets using mechanisms such as free trade agreements that have forced African countries to lift customs fees on imported food Every time you hear free trade it should raise some red flags very colonial It is a construction that takes into account the history of taking it out of the West, and this exacerbates what has been achieved. It also comes from our colonial history. Our agricultural production must be the front where the cash crops are actually placed . and commodities such as rubber and a few cash crops such as cocoa and coffee.Africa's wealth and labor were very ready to satisfy European needs.In order for the colonies to live, they had to import enough food to feed their people.

You have to go into debt and depend on loans from the IMF and you have to borrow from the World Bank. That's the bottom line. You have to borrow. Why do you have to borrow? You don't have money. Importing anything and everything willy-nilly. Capability Another legacy from colonial era suppression of local food production continues structurally (today) Adaptation Prog Rams were imposed on African countries by the IMF and the World Bank's supply was easier than the financial institutions.

It will pay off your inherited debt. If the colonial era makes certain adjustments to you, the economic adjustments were primitive. Farmers are out of work because of these policies, the food they produce after the imports were cheaper than many people are hungry because people don't travel that far and now it's the corona issue the market is in the market right now it's very very expensive things are hard things are very hard Almost every day people are looking at my door begging for help looking for food in the last decade Nigeria has become a prosperous country in Africa but in the same period malnutrition has increased 180% and today the World Bank says it has the highest number of child deaths in the world in the IMF the prosperity of the hope and the development of the World Bank clearly It didn't come.

Fruiting in places like Kaduna. Really free trade level and subsidy sanctions were imposed on Africa. They are not even allowed in the US and Europe. In the United Nations, industrial farms earn $20 billion a year (from 6-7-9-9). Government subsidies are essential to enable them. If farmers think about our economy , I don't know how the Kenyan economy is equal or fair. Such different economies will be the U.S. Subsidies to their farmers will be valid. As healthy Africa struggles to feed itself, with imported goods, most of its own food is produced by women small farmers, just like in colonial times, these producers depend on agriculture for small quantities of raw crops.

Global North ambitions have recently taken the form of a billionaire-backed welfare scheme called the Green Revolution. Organizations like Bill Gates, the United Nations and of course the World Bank and the IMF , how do we bring it through the agriculture, international financial institutions like the World Bank, the African Development Bank, the IMF and they need to bring that technology and innovation to produce those products because in the end it is not only Africa that needs to feed the world must feed the plan .

Converting such smallholder farms in Senegal to large industrial farms using seeds and fertilizers, western agriculture is one such initiative. One of these initiatives is the Nerica A Commercial Rice Growing Program. Recent studies of the Green Revolution have seen no crop yields in more than 12 years. The money of the green revolution in the participating countries has grown by 100% B has poured in from African farmers to depend on many international races but it has not led to any real development .

In fact, all the signs show that the neo-colonial project is showing this kind of resistance all over Africa with the IMF and their ilk at the top of the hit list Nigeria and Senegal with 13 others. With West African nations recently openly asked for the cancellation of their debts and Kenya rejected the desired loan because of exploitative words. Public consciousness about the exploitation of the IMF is also growing with musicians like Bahir Koti in Nigeria teaching people through his song I read some international You know what I wrote because I wanted to draw a direct link between the rulers of Africa , they are under control , we need all the money from the West. Development was Zimbabwe Zimbabwe almost that country's pioneering journey African sovereignty is thought to be defined by eating Africa Africans refused to pay their debts under the late President Mugabe Zimbabwe and in 2000 fought the IMF to privatize their land bringing public ownership like Nelson Farmers who were once given land were occupied by white settlers under a land reform program, economic sanctions from Europe and to this day.

The continued U.S. from looking at the issues of the sanctions to ensure that no country in Africa will ever follow the line of Zimbabwe for the land Zimbabwe and the land will never be when we take our fertile land and redistributed this to the attention of the common people through our persecutors to hit us. Then any product from the farm that was once owned by a white family is not accepted anywhere. The market is in the international market.

You know, every reform is supported outside this country by the government through financial institutions. Zimbabwe can't do that. Once all the other farmers can do that. They affect our agriculture. Decades of sanctions have paralyzed the economy of Zimbabwe. In particular , Cylon Aid hit last year, destroying large tracts of farmland, destroying homes and worsening food insecurity. Helping those affected by the UN World Food Programme's cyclone was our focus last year. Save lives and so we immediately started giving unconditional food aid to 130,000 people in Chi Money and Ching.

The Susa farm house is still in ruins. More than a year after the typhoon, the distribution of aid to this area was completely unconditional. Prevents aid from reaching former white farms like Susan in neighboring countries Farmers understand the storm I feel like any kind of sanctions it affects food security it is harmful to people it is very important basic food security should not be a human right it is at risk but when the u.n condemns the impact of sanctions he is an influential supporter of the international north unilateral pro- Capital policies in Africa exacerbate climate impacts, conflict and the continent's deep dependence on Western trade and help this.

Dependence threatens food security immediately . It is from the oppressors of the world they can use them 23 hours of the day to destroy the world and for us one hour to talk like one they know they need many Africans to understand that we have it right she got her right many times in Africa I mean when they talk about history Lumbamba Sankara I mean all these great people of destruction Umas Ghana I mean we have seen them all it will not happen again in Kibera I feel like a big sister to rely on donor aid and money and money because even 90 of the Kigo's some of the foundations of the Kigo's are in us UK he is not he started here so Janet we brought these things from glory to drive we have sugar we have rice we have the biggest borehole in Kibera Africa more than half a million people your residents to They have started to help, there are no ngos themselves, now ngos are working from home And we are working at home, we can't be behind our laptops to serve.

Collecting I am Afro-Bright because of the world we are in, the continent we have a fat island, we have that food, they are not made from a laboratory, the soil is found here in Africa, but we also need to remember that food is not only traditional to eat, we are losing the culture that promises to prepare and eat food . Related to food and now when it comes to the question of what food sovereignty means the people decide how they use their land how they eat what they eat how they grow remember to subscribe and hit the notification bell so you don't miss our African videos and please feel free to leave your suggestions news tips or Even topics about Africa that you want us to cover.

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Tony Kalume introduces the kanga, an East Africa textile.

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My name is Tony Kalume I work with Diversity Lewes which is a group that fights against discrimination, so we try to celebrate our differences I work at the University of Brighton doing stuff for a better Brighton kanga collection was something that I was passionate about for the various political and various cultural issues around kanga as you can see, the kangas have such a meaning to the whole cultural index, the Swahili and the East African people welcome to my Bitesize Talk at the Brighton Museum we're gonna talk about kangas which are cloth that come from Africa this is a tradition that goes back to the 18th century the first kangas were actually written in Arabic people couldn't read them but people liked the way they were; they were just basic white, dotted things it was just white cloth with dots on it the funny thing is, the name 'kanga' comes from 'guinea fowl', meaning 'you look as pretty as a guinea fowl'; that's why they're called kangas but then the Portuguese used to call them 'lenços' because 'lenços' in Portuguese means 'handkerchief' so the people during the 18th century used to buy these lenços and then they used to sew them together and make a big cloth for wrapping, traditionally used as head wraps so 'lenços' has retained that name until now - if you go to some places, people don't call it 'kanga', they call it 'lenços' - so there are two names in either bit so we come to the 18th-19th century and the Arabic wording started fading; people were speaking Swahili, so it became no more Arabic writing - they started using Swahili words in the western world, people gift flowers during weddings, or when someone is sick they send flowers or cards during Christmas, people send cards in this East African region, kangas are the cards they've got so much meaning - we can use a political example when Barack Obama became the president of the United States about eight years ago, this was what came out this is what people had it says 'Upendo Na Amani Ametujalia Mungu' - so 'Love and Peace.' 'God has given us love and peace.' so it's celebrating this ascension to presidency now this one's quite interesting because not one person can interpret the thing that's said 'Jee Umetosheka?' - this is a question it's asking: 'Are you satisfied?' in a way, you could give this to your girlfriend or to your wife; you could give it to her like a present or she can give it to you so this is kind of quite romantic there's another example here which shows the political side of things and funnily enough, it's written in English so people create these for big things like Unicef - this one was for the Decade of Women it was the UN Decade for Women Conference, July 1985, Nairobi/Kenya so this is in English but you can see now how, instead of giving them a goodie bag, like here when you go to a conference and you find people give you a goodie bag with pamphlets and some paraphernalia, with merchandise, instead you can just give them a lenço or a kanga - and that's part of it now, this is also another example of a nice saying 'Akili' means 'brain' 'Mali' means 'wealth' but at the same time, 'akili' can mean 'common sense' and 'mali' can mean 'money' So when you want to get married, you have to give a towel - so they are things you can give to your mother-in-law but then there are some things like that one saying 'Have you had enough?' - that one is a bit rude, because it's like: What have you given your mother-in-law so that she can have enough? so, there are some that you don't give to your mother-in-law; there are some that you can give to your sister, your daughter, and it's political we have kikoys which are displayed on some of the models according to where I come from, kikoys are worn by men and kangas are worn both by men and women, but guess what? men wear them only when they're in the bedroom and they won't be seen wearing a kanga outside so it's only the women who wear them outside so the connection with Fashion Cities Africa is to show how we can actually connect this feminine side of the fashion with the masculine side of the fashion and try to see if we can bring it together some people now, what they do is actually make coats out of kangas; they make pants out of kangas.

so you see the saying but it's not a wrap any more; it's a shirt or it's a coat with really nice lining it is changing the whole principle of fashion, in that the print is there and the sayings are there and they make sure that maybe it's at the back or on the side kangas are evolving in a way that they are being used in, lets say, the modern fashion way that's the kind of thing we want to communicate in Fashion Cities Africa..

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South African Cuisine: An Introduction to South African Food Guide

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As we made our way from Johannesburg to Cape Town we enjoyed trying as many different kinds of South African cuisine as possible. From Braai to Biltong we sampled a lot of new things for the first time. Aside from possibly Argentina, I can't think of a country that does better barbecue and wine. However, I learned my lesson that barbecue is merely a sauce and grilled meat to perfection is what you can Braai. Come join us as we eat and drink our way around South Africa. Right now we're at Wild Farm in Wilderness and we're waiting for one of my favorite things. It's called Braai. It's South African barbecue and it is absolutely phenomenal.

So in the background we've got our lovely little log cabin. I'm drying out a towel right now. But anyways that is besides the point. The team here at the hostel is now working on the barbecue. They're stoking the fire so we are going to show you the whole process. Let's go cook some Braai. And Audrey has made a new best friend. Who is this? It's Kika. Is it playtime or nap time? It looks like nap time. You want to take this one home in your backpack? Yes. She would fit nicely. Not a bad little view from over here huh? What are you drinking? Um, apple cider. Alright, we've got the grill master here and he's going to tell us what makes Braai much better than barbecue. Well, firstly, barbecue is a sauce. Hahahaha. But the difference with a South African Braai is the fact that we use real wood instead of charcoal. And it gives a different flavor to the meat.

And that is a big thing. Excuse me. What have we got here? We've got some good chicken. Look at that. This is sausage as well. That looks so good. But first. So underneath the Braai that is where you have the meat that is already done and the cheesy mushroom bread. Here is the finished product. Look at that. Wow! So that is the bread? Yep. It's the cheesy mushroom bread. Show us that. Woah. It is almost like a sandwich. A hot sandwich. That's for me. Alright, we are checking out your plate. What do we got over here? So it is all dished up.

My first traditional Braai. We've got some chicken, some sausage and some meat. So I am ready to dig in. What else do we have aside from that? Well, there is salad and potatoes on the side and some feta cheese. But who is focusing on that. Okay, first bite. Who cares about that stuff. Mmmm. That is wonderful. You did a great job. Cool, man. Yeah, seriously. Alright, stop filming me and enjoy your food man. Hahahaha. Alright, I'm trying the sausage. That is amazing. South African Braai sausage is better than anything else I've ever tried.

Well Hello from South Africa. We just finished raiding a supermarket where we picked up as many South African snacks as we could. We grabbed chips, chocolate bars, soda drinks and we're going to try them all for you. So this is our South African taste test. So over here I've got myself Nik Naks. It's a maize snack and I think the packaging looks great.

Have a look in the bag. Those kind of look like cheesies. They look like cheese puffs and they taste like cheese puffs. It's very airy and crunchy. It's a nice light snack. Good snack for the road. I'm giving it the thumbs up. Road tripping snack. I'm trying here the Chocolate Log. And I have a feeling, oh yeah, it is a marshmallow on a crispy wafer.

I wonder if it is going to taste a bit like a wagon wheel or a krembo. Show us the bar. What does it look like? Yeah, we've got the crunchy part on the bottom and we've got the marshmallow in the middle. That is a really really good bar. Mmm. Yum. So this one looks interesting. It is really similar to the Mars bars that we have in North America. Even the packaging and the color on the packaging is quite similar. But this is called Now. Eat it now! Now! Chocolate now! I wonder if it will be a similar filling. It looks similar too. It's got caramel and how do you call it, nougat? Chocolate. Yeah, you know what, this to me tastes just like a Mars Bar. Just different name, that is all it is. Yeah, good stuff. Being the cat lover that I am when we were divvying up the snacks we kind of had an almost like a draft. Like a lottery. I chose the Black Cat bar.

So it is a peanut snack packed with peanut power apparently. Let's try that out. It looks like it has got some kind of like a toffee or a something sticky and sweet keeping it together. Oh gosh, I'm going to break my tooth. It is super crunchy. Yeah, really really sweet. And it is kind of like, I don't know, like a honey or a caramel that is hardened. Really crunchy, packed with peanuts, pretty much delicious. Okay, I'm not sure what this one is called but I think Beacon is the brand and Whippy is the name. And it says mmm Mallows. I think it is supposed to be like marshmallows or something. Mallows. Mallows. Soft strawberry flavored mallow smothered in chocolate and coconut. We call it marshmallow back in Canada but we'll go with mallows. Let's see. Lekker. So it is like a pink and white marshmallow inside.

Nice and spongy. It doesn't really have a strong strawberry flavor which is what I was expecting because of the pink packaging. It is just like a sweet fluffy marshmallow inside. It's good. I like it. Wonder Bar. And if I remember correctly we have something by the same name in Canada but I'm not entirely sure. There is definitely a wonder something kind of chocolate bar. But this appears to be totally different. I have a feeling this is mint chocolate. It is mint flavored apparently. And it appears to be really small. Some kind of an ant on me.

Okay. So let's try that. Can you see the green. Yeah, kind of. Oh, Wow. That is a really unique mint chocolate bar. It's like nothing I've really had before. It's got a crunchiness to it. Almost like a cookie flavor. Wow. The mint is really hitting me strong. The first time you have a bite you don't really taste it that much. But as you're chewing it, a really strong mint flavor. It is kind of like an after eight? Stronger mint flavor than that. I like it even more. Next up, we have something called Diddle Daddle by Jumping Jack. Diddle Daddles. That sounds like something like a taddle. Tiddle taddle. Don't diddle daddle. Okay, so it looks like caramelized popcorn. So it is sweet popcorn. I think you would call this kettle corn in Canada, right? Yeah, I think. Sweet kettle corn. Sweet popcorn. Caramelized. It doesn't have a buttery flavor.

It is just strictly caramel. Perfect for watching a movie, huh? Diddle Daddle. Don't diddle daddle. Or do diddle daddle. So I've got a TV bar. Shall I assume you're supposed to eat this while watching TV. Who knows? So, as it says here, tropical coconut, crunchy rice puffs and smooth white chocolate. Sounds pretty good to me. Let's see the white chocolate coating here. Okay, you know what? That's kind of like something in between a granola bar and a chocolate bar. Would you say it is healthy? No, it's got a lot of sugar for sure.

It's good though. You can definitely taste that coconut. Now I'm moving on to the Niki cluster coconut clustered coated in smooth milk chocolate. Okay. Let's see what this is all about. I wonder if it is going to taste like a Bounty Bar. The one we have back home. Okay, so it is coated in chocolate. Oh, it is quite chocolate-y inside. I'm going to zoom in on that. It does taste a bit like coconut but I was expecting like white shredded coconut in the middle. And it is more like coconut that has been coated in chocolate.

It's nice. Mmmm. I've been saving this one for near the end. I love coconut chocolate bars. They're some of my favorite. And I really like Bounty Bars and I really like Ritter Sport coconut flavor from Germany, so lets see if this Niki bar lives up to that. Oh yeah, it's amazing. Wow! Look at all of that coconut goodness in the middle here. That is amazing. That deserves another big bite even though I'm already full. Mmmm. Delicious! Okay, so next we have mini Eet Sum Mor biscuits. Eat some more of that! Come on, eat some more. I'm expecting something like short bread cookies. Oh, they're quite small. Show us one. I'll just pop one in my mouth. These are what they look like. They're tiny. Little squares. Woah! We have birds. Sam, it's like a miniature short bread cookie not overly sweet. It would go nice with a cup of tea. Are you going to eat some more? No, I'm going to move on to my next snack. Are you sure? Okay, I'm having a Lion King moment over here.

These are Simba chips. Simba! What flavor? Smoked beef flavored potato chips that roars with flavour. Simba. Okay. Yeah, it is like a beef flavored chip. I don't think I've ever had anything like this before. It tastes like meat. In chip form. Okay, now the funny story about this one here. It's called Iron Brew is that they have something in Scotland that is called the same thing. But it is spelled in Scotland Irn. So we called it Urn Bru. We totally messed up. It is supposed to be called Iron Bru. Here it is spelled with a vowel, with an O so no mistakes this time.

Iron Brew. This is the first time to try this. I have no idea what it tastes like. I don't think it is going to taste like the one from Scotland because that is an orange color. It is definitely different. Wow! I don't even really know how to describe it. It has a different cola flavor than anything I've ever tried before. What does it say on the bottle? What is the description? Well, it says South Africa's favorite. Um, I'll have to look to the ingredients here. Carbonated water, sugar, caramel flavor, citric acid. Yeah, it's got, it does have a bit of a caramel flavor. It's um, it's unique. That's all I can say. Another chocolate bar up ahead. This one is Beacon. Forest fruit and nut chocolate. Forest fruit, wow. It kind of reminds me of the Cadbury bars you'd get back home. The fruit and nut bars, yeah. I wonder if it is going to be similar.

I think so. Dun, dah, dah, dun. It's hard chocolate. Yeah, nutty. Fruity? Yeah, it's milk chocolate with fruits, nuts. A very familiar flavor. Nothing out of the ordinary. It's good. Alright, we've done a whole other video dedicated to Biltong but this here is a kind we didn't try. Hello, Kika. She wants some snacks. You came just at the right time. You wanted the meat snacks. So this is Kudu. It is a kind of game flavor. Game meat. So let's open that up. A bite for me. That's really good meat. A bite for Kika. She's eating it off of my leg.

Here, one more bite for Kika. Come on Kika. Yum, yum. That's really good. It does have that game-y kind of flavor. And it is really rich. Really high quality and you can tell there is not a lot of fat in this. So, I know we can get Cadbury all around the world but this flavor I have never seen before. What is it? Show us. We have marvelous creations and this is cookie gummy crunch. Very colorful packaging. We've got a party going on over there.

Oh, yeah. Let's open this monster chocolate bar. It's huge, it must be like well over 100 grams. Maybe 200. Here, so I'm going to break a piece in half. Oh, you can see some of the cookie pieces. Okay, hold it still. Oh, you can, wow. Let's see. Yeah, so it's got cookie chunks and some blue crumbly stuff. Crunchy stuff. I couldn't tell you what candy the blue stuff is. It is just crunchy, hard candy. But the chocolate is good. The milk chocolate is good quality. Okay, I'm really excited about this product. I think it is like Ginger Beer flavored mints. And that seems like a very niche king of unique product.

I can't wait to try it. Yep, those are mints. I don't think you're going to like these. I'm still finishing my jerky. Alright, ready to try these. Wow! These are strong. I'm loving this. I love strong ginger beer flavor but I have a feeling that unless you've grown up drinking ginger beer 95% of people who haven't probably wouldn't like this. This is delicious to me but this is not something that I would bring home for as a gift for friends and family.

Let's say that. Next up, we have the nut basket. Tasty South African snacks and this one is roasted giant peanuts Peri Peri. And apparently peri peri is just a spice. Like a mix of different spices. I think it is supposed to be quite spicy. Hot. Let's see abot that. So this is what they look like. It's not overly spicy yet. I'm waiting for the burn to kick in. Feel the burn? I mean, it's spicy. It's got some flavor but it is not overly spicy that you're like having to chug a glass of milk. Yeah, Peri Peri peanuts. So, another thing we picked up in the supermarket: Romany Creams. Classic choc. And it says are you South Africa's biggest bakers fan? Let's find out if I am. Oh, I like that easy tear away. Nice. Use those big muscles of yours. Muscles. Okay, they are just loose. They're biscuits. So, chocolate biscuit with chocolate filing. It's a nice crunchy cookie. It would be really nice for dunking in your coffee or your tea.

Yeah, chocolate. Okay, so next I'm trying something called Sparberry soft drink. Spar letta, I'm not sure if that is the brand. I'm going to assume so since the supermarket was called Spar. So Sparberry drink here we go. Oh, it is pink. Splashed it on my finger. I just poured it all over myself. I'm going to say cherry. I think it is cherry flavoured. I think it is strawberry flavored. Yeah, look. It says. Oh, no it doesn't. It could be either cherry or strawberry. I'm not sure. My puppy friend is here. Kika. Kika is here. Come Kika. Let her say hello now that I'm filming. Come. This is Kika. Kika lives here in Wilderness. And she is a cute puppy and she has been sleeping on my lap and being very very sweet these past few days. Haven't you? Are you cute Kika? Are you cute? Kika. Maybe she wants some snacks. Maybe. You arrived just at the right time.

Didn't you? Alright, I've been saving this for the end because I'm thirsty after trying all that chocolate and savory snacks. This is Stoney Ginger Beer. I love ginger beer. The best ginger beer I have ever had has been in Australia. It's a lot stronger than the stuff you can get in Canada. So let's so how this Stoney stuff compares. Wow, that is pretty strong. Yeah, that is some of the best ginger beer I've ever had. I can't wait to finish that off. So, ciao from South Africa. This is Sam, Audrey and Kika signing off from Wilderness. Hi, pup. Say, bye. So we're closing off with Biltong in my hand and Kika. Come on Kika. Come, on, come get some.

Come on. Come here. Here you go. So we have a fun day planned today. We're actually doing a wine tour around Stellenbosch so we're just going to be driving through the countryside sipping on wine. Let's get started. And eating cheese. So we're pairing some white wines with cheese. I don't know which one I'm more excited about. I think maybe the cheese. And this is my favorite cheese so far. It is called White Rock with cranberry. It tastes a little bit like cheesecake. The last sweet red wine we tried tasted a little bit like Christmas cake. It was delicious. Good to the last drop. So we just finished our first wine tasting here at Fairview. We each tried six different wines with cheese. I think we're feeling pretty happy right now aren't we? It is eleven fourteen in the morning right now and I'm already well greased.

So we've now arrived at our second vineyard of the day. This one is called Moroti and it has more of a rustic family feel. So let's go check that one out. So this particular vineyard has a lot of character. It has a specially rustic feel. And it has just been cool touring around here. Given some of the areas what appear to be permanent cobwebs. It is pretty amazing. So this is our third vineyard and this particular red wine is straight from the barrel. Oh, take a sip. It's good. And for dessert we are what? Roasting marshmallows.

Over an open fire. We're just missing the chocolate and graham crackers. Roasted to perfection. It's hot. Is it good? Delicious? Alright, I get the next one. And here is how I like mine. Nice and crispy all over. That's a mouth full. Alright, so we just finished a delicious braai lunch and we're feeling quite stuffed. But the tour isn't over. We still have two more vineyards to visit and apparently there is Biltong and chocolate on the menu. So I am looking forward to that. They're going to be carrying us away on wheel barrels by the time we're finished.

So we are now at our forth vineyard. Everyone is wearing hats. I'm not sure why but we're going to go drink some wine in our fancy hats. We've moved on from cheese to lunch. And now we've got chocolate. And over here I've got a chili chocolate so apparently you don't taste it too much when you're chewing it but when it goes down. When you're swallowing it that is when you really feel the burn. So let's see if that is true. I don't taste it so much now. Maybe take a sip of wine and see what happens. Yeah, as soon as you swallow it you feel the burn. It is not too overpowering but it is. It's got some kick to it for sure.

Time for some wine. Do you want neck scratches? You're sweet aren't you? Why are you behind a gate? Huh? You're not dangerous. Are you a guard dog? Are you a guard dog? Those are nice aren't they? Oh, you're getting a puppy massage. Puppy massage. So we have now arrived at our fifth and final winery of the day. To be honest they're all starting to blend together because we've been drinking way too much wine but there is still a little room for a few more glasses so let's go in and sample some more.

Alright, so we've had cheese and we've had chocolate with our wine and now it is time for Biltong. Which is a type of South African jerky. This is awesome, high quality, fresh Biltong. Final impressions is that was a fantastic tour. It is actually our very last day in South Africa and I couldn't think of a more relaxing way to finish things off. The wine was fantastic. All of the food was really good. We had some excellent cheeses, chocolate and Biltong and we had a huge feast for lunch, so what a great way to wrap things up and that is it for us in South Africa.

Okay, so a new country, a new taste test. We are in South Africa right now and you can't come to this country and not try Biltong. So that is what I have right here in this brown paper bag. So Biltong is a dried cured meat similar to beef jerky and this is what it looks like. So we got ourselves some beef biltong but apparently you can get different kinds of meats. Like game meat or ostrich. This is cow. And it is quite hard and chewy but it makes a really nice snack, so let's say you're riding the bus or going on a really long trip it is kind of nice to just have a bag full and be munching away. That's what we have been doing for the past few days. So for me Biltong is kind of like premium jerky. And there is three key differences. First off, it is sliced a lot thicker. Secondly, they use vinegar in the curing process along with salt and pepper. Which is a little bit different from regular jerky which doesn't have any vinegar whatsoever. And the third key difference is Biltong is not smoked whereas jerky is.

Okay, so the purchasing process? What was awesome is that we went into a kind of like what would be considered a deli that specialized in Biltong. And when we went in there was all of these different kinds of dried meat hanging up in different sections. There was one that was game meat, there was one that was regular, there was a premium kind. I can't remember but there was a forth kind as well. And anyways, what you would do is pick this meat off of a hook and bring it over to these ladies who would then put it through a grinder and it would go into this bag like that. So it was a really cool to be right there involved in the process. And it just made it a lot more special. And the other thing that I really noticed that was a big difference is that the quality of the actual meat itself is a lot better than what comes from say packaged pre-packed stuff you would find in a store. So the word Biltong. What does it mean? I actually had to look this up but now I can tell you.

So 'Bil' apparently comes from the Dutch word for rump and 'Tong' means strip or tongue. But contrary to popular belief Biltong is not made from bull's tongue, so don't be afraid to try it because of that. What have you got in your hand over there? Okay, and last but not least we have something called Cabanossi which kind of looks like a dried pepperoni stick. We also picked this up at the same store we got the Biltong. So I'm going to try that. Yeah, so it is kind of like a greasy salami stick.

Again, chewy, salty, flavorful. I think it makes a great snack. Which one do you like better? Or do you like them both? I do like them both but this reminds me of salami or like a pepperoni stick so it is something I am familiar with. So I quite enjoy the flavor. One more bite. So when you're visiting South Africa, unless of course you're a vegetarian, be sure to try Biltong.

I swear it is pretty much addicting. I can't seem to stop myself over here..

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Designed for Success: Nigeria's rising fashion stars

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it's an exciting time for nigerian fashion led by a pool of talented female designers the country's fashion scene is turning heads on runways around the world what i think is driving the success of young female designers in nigeria is zeo it's that dynamic energy it's that can do spirit growing interest from the western fashion industry is helping these female nigerian designers break into global markets it's about seeing i can be from here i can have products from here i can have people working for me from here and still be huge globally from the very first lagos fashion week 11 years ago to dress in style icons such as naomi campbell and michelle obama nigerian fashion has come a long way the industry's success has been driven in part by booming domestic sales thanks to nigeria's young population and growing middle class sales of footwear and apparel grew by over 90 between 2014 and 2019. nigerians love to look good at any cost people here are so creative with the way that they interpret trends and the way that they put themselves together as the industry expands a host of talented female nigerian designers are emerging in a space traditionally dominated by men and attracting attention from the us europe and beyond we are not shy when it comes to colors we're not shy when it comes to expressing ourselves so i think the western world is looking at us now the sago sisters are examples of this new breed of female talent inspired by the success of their mother tiola sego a leading figure in nigeria's fashion industry the sisters launched clan to cater to the modern african woman we're inspired by things and experiences that we have had here on the continent i think people are actually just tired of clothing that doesn't have depth it doesn't have salt the sisters received rave reviews at shows such as new york fashion week and have since gone global by partnering with retailers like us-based platform the folklore international partnerships like the one we have with the folklore have really helped us to expand and have given us a lot more visibility when we're producing on larger scales we're empowering our workforce here which has direct economic benefits for many young nigerian designers zizzi cardo is a role model and an example of an international success story a well-established brand back home her nigerian inspired designs have also appeared at shows in new york paris london and milan global collaboration or even participating in international events is very very important you see what people are doing out there the new innovations she credits international exposure as helping to open doors throughout her 20-year career there was a time i was applying for something with the uk and the most important things they asked me was what are the international bodies that i've worked with and by the time i listed it i got approved i didn't have global referrals and opportunities to work with other people i wouldn't understand what i have within me that it is pure it is unique to me for up-and-coming designer volube adebiyi her goal is to introduce ethical and sustainable african fashion to consumers around the world her brand cotton loops has won praise at several international trade shows while also growing its footprint across africa our international journey at curtin started with us showing at pure london in 2018 and we were voted top five most sustainable brands of 700 brands of 40 countries so obviously that was huge for us in 2021 her global ambitions took a huge leap forward she was one of just 20 nigerian designers selected to be part of a u.s government skills exchange scheme called the international visitors leadership program ivlp has opened a lot of doors it also helped us to harness our global opportunities recognition for me local global is some sort of an affirmation that what i'm doing is accepted and while it's humbling it also pushes me to do more female nigerian designers are fast becoming the powerhouse of the global fashion world increasing demand for african-inspired fashion from the us and europe is helping them to grow their brands internationally and strengthen collaborations between african and western fashion industries showing the world what it is that we can do in africa that's one of the biggest things that we stand for and you know that's what the future is going to be like you

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