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(woman singing in foreign language)
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♪ I'm still standing with blood on my shoe ♪
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♪ I protected all the women and me ♪
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♪ My bones are stronger my roots are deeper ♪
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♪ I can tell you all the stories in me ♪
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♪ I can tell you all the stories in me ♪
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(funky blues music)
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(singing in foreign language)
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I want my continent to be a place
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where people can dream and believe that their dreams are valid.
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That they can realize those dreams.
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My home is embattled by desertification and drought...
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...migration and conflict.
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The Sahel is one of the regions that suffers the most from the changing climate.
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(singing)
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Being from Mali, being African,
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I cannot look the other way.
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We need to create solutions
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for the issues that we're facing.
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♪ I keep on ♪
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♪ Walking ♪
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♪ I keep on ♪
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♪ Going ♪
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I heard about this ambitious idea
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that aims to combat desertification
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and re-green landscapes from Senegal to Djibouti,
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west to east.
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This 8,000-km Great Green Wall would be my roadmap.
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The Great Green Wall,
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it's not just about planting trees.
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Restoring the land is a matter of survival.
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This is a story of resilience.
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This is a story of...
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actively taking your destiny in your own hands.
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I wonder if it's going to work in the end.
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Is it going to help stop people from migrating?
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I'm searching for answers.
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I'm trying to understand...
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...how can we create an African dream?
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♪ I keep on walking ♪
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♪ I keep on going ♪
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♪ I keep on ♪
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♪ Walking ♪
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♪ I will always get up and keep on walking ♪
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The Sahel is a region south of the Sahara Desert.
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It's very dry and very hot.
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You can see how the changing climate affects people.
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We all have a responsibility to do something.
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It's a shared responsibility.
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(soft guitar music)
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I can use my voice as an artist to share what's at stake.
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So I'm on this epic journey
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that I'm starting here in Senegal.
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(French chatter) (laughter)
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I'm going to travel all along the Sahel,
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and I'm recording an album to tell the story of the Great Green Wall
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and the challenges that we face.
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Didier Awadi is a pioneer in West African hip-hop.
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I remember seeing him with his group,
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Positive Black Soul, when I was a teenager.
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It was a first time for me to see hip-hop in an African language.
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And with issues that I could relate to.
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It was, like: "This is us. He's talking about us."
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(soft guitar music) (Inna singing)
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(Inna laughing)
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- Thomas Sankara was Burkina Faso's revolutionary president in the 1980s,
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and a leader in the Pan-African movement.
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Sankara said, "We must dare to invent the future."
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- And his words have become a kind of mantra for this journey.
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- The Sahel is one of the most vulnerable places on Earth.
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It's on the frontline of climate change.
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More than 80% of people survive on some form of agriculture.
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If people can't work their land...
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...millions across the region will be forced to migrate.
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(man singing)
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I heard this saying here. It's:
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(Inna laughing) (man singing)
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(farmers singing)
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(hip hop)
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- Yeah!
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The song is about migration.
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How young people get pushed away by the desert.
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I wanted to remind young people that...
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there used to be a dream here.
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- For me, the most important thing:
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restore the hopes, even if it seems to be...
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- Hopeless. - Sorry for my broken English, huh?
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I've been colonized by the French, so... (laughter)
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(snapping fingers) ♪ Unh ♪
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- People are always asking themselves:
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"Should I stay or should I go?"
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What would you do?
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For some people, there is no choice.
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You have to go.
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"I have nothing to eat, I cannot farm,
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I have zero way to earn money. What should I do?"
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- Big Makou went on this journey trying to go to Europe.
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He went up to Libya.
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Got caught by the Libyan government and put in jail.
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When he was on this journey, he had a phone call.
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He learned that he was going to have a baby,
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and it shifted something in his mind.
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Insh'Allah. - Insh'Allah.
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- Then he came back to his village.
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Salaam-Alaikum. He wanted a future for his kid.
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- That's when he wrote the song that has become the anthem of the village.
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- The African dream, for a long time, has been out of the continent.
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A lot of people share the same experience.
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By restoring the land,
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maybe people will be able to create their dream here.
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(playback)
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(soft guitar music over beats)
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(singing and clapping continue)
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(Inna): In Senegal, the Great Green Wall has become a symbol of hope.
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But across the Sahel, it's more a vision than a reality.
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Less than 15% is underway.
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With so many issues affecting the region,
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I wonder if countries will be able to make this happen.
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In the North of Mali, where I come from...
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...there's a huge crisis.
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Almost half-a-million people have been displaced.
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We can see that because of desertification,
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because of the consequences of climate change,
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there is insecurity.
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(crowd chanting)
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We do have conflict.
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We do have poverty. But we have much more.
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(men singing)
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We have culture.
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We have traditions.
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We have music.
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I would like to share another narrative.
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♪ We will keep on fighting ♪
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♪ The light is coming ♪
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Un, deux. Un, deux.
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I really wanted to collaborate with the Songhoy Blues.
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They had to flee from the north of Mali, come to Bamako.
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They are the perfect example for other young people
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to see that there is hope.
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- When we first met, she was, like:
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"We need to write something to give hope to the new African generation."
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The idea of the melody and the whole text
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comes from that one word: African dream.
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♪ Africa yeah ♪
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♪ Africa eh ♪
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- We are from the north of Mali,
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and when you talk about desert, you wanna talk about melody.
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And the more you move from the desert to the south in the jungle,
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the more you move from the melody to the percussion.
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So we're trying to find that balance
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between the north and the south.
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(Inna singing)
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(band singing)
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♪ Africa yeah ♪
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♪ Africa yeah ♪
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♪ Africa yeah... ♪
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(singing) (guitar strumming) (laughter)
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(singing)
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- For as long as I remember,
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I've always wanted to be a musician.
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I've always wanted to use my voice.
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I started being an activist...
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because of my own story.
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When I was a kid...
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...I went through female genital mutilation.
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A family member took me...
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...and did it to me.
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It really messed with everything that I believed in.
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And so I decided to be vocal about the consequences.
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I used my music for my activism.
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(soft guitar music)
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♪ I used to walk 100 miles ♪
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♪ To get water for my people ♪
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♪ Used to walk 100 miles ♪
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♪ To get water to get water ♪
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I've been an activist for almost 15 years now.
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Music can educate people, it can open minds.
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(cheering) Merci beaucoup!
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(laughter)
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With the conflicts and the crisis going on...
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...it's difficult to focus on the Great Green Wall.
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We have to be aware of that...
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...to understand the struggle of people.
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And to understand what they are overcoming.
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♪ Africa yeah ♪
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♪ Africa yeah ♪
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♪ Africa yeah... ♪
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♪ Africa yeah ♪
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♪ Africa yeah ♪
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♪ Africa yeah... ♪
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(rapping in foreign language)
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(song fading)
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(horn blowing)
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- Well, I hope that it will bring awareness
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and shed a light on the stories of the people
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that we had the chance to meet.
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It's really important to show the world that we are doing something
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and that we are really the change-makers.
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- It's all connected.
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(background chatter)
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If people are not able to make a living where they are...
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...there are going to be conflicts.
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In the north of Nigeria...
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...the conflicts are strongly tied
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to the changing of the climate.
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Thirty-million people survive on Lake Chad's ecosystem.
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But in the last 50 years,
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the lake has shrunk by 90%.
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The armed group Boko Haram has taken advantage of the crisis.
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- Hello! - Hi!
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- Waje! - How are you? - I'm good!
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- Oh! - Oh!
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- Nice to meet you. - Nice to finally meet you. - Finally.
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(laughter) Waje is one of my favourite Nigerian pop stars.
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♪ I feel it in the air ♪
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♪ Feel it in the air ♪
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She uses her fame as a platform for good.
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♪ Anywhere you dey ♪
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Let them know say you be strong girl ♪
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We both care about issues that affect women.
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And during conflict,
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women and girls are the most vulnerable people.
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(children singing)
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- Hi. How are you? - I'm good. How are you?
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- I'm super, thank you. - Nice to see you.
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(singing)
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- So, Hauwa, you've been going to school for four years now.
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What do you like about school?
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- What about you, Fatima?
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- So you're an activist against child marriage.
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- Yeah, I'm against child marriage.
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- How old are you? - I'm 14. - Fourteen.
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And what is Hauwa's story?
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- You're such brave girls.
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Hauwa, I know that you like to sing.
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Do you want me to sing?
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(Inna laughing)
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(speaking foreign language)
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One, two, go.
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♪ I keep on walking ♪
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♪ I keep on going ♪
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♪ I keep on walking ♪
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♪ I will always get up and keep on walking ♪
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♪ I keep on walking ♪
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This is a song that I wrote,
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and I didn't know that they were going to perform it. Oh, my God.
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♪ I keep on walking ♪
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(soft music)
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♪ I keep on walking ♪ (harmonizing)
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♪ I keep on going ♪
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♪ I keep on ♪
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♪ Walking ♪
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♪ I will always get up and keep on walking ♪
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(laughter)
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What... (vocalizing)
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- Every message has its melody, has its vibe.
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I think this one is very blues.
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It has a ballad feel to it. It's rich.
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(French chatter)
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My message is inclusion.
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That's why some of the words I'm writing, I'm writing in Pidgin.
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It's like our local English.
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Like, when I say: ♪ Oh sister ♪ that's very Nigerian.
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In that way, I sort of bring the Afro beat vibe to it.
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♪ Oh sister ♪
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♪ Why are you crying ♪
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How do we make sure that,
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even as the message is hope,
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we shine the light on the problem as well?
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- It's easier for them to recruit among the young people.
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But Bintu and Modu,
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who are here with us, were not recruited.
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They were abducted.
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How did you both get involved in this?
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(gunfire)
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- What age?
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(gunfire)
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- You said that smiling.
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- I couldn't sleep last night.
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I was just...
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The beautiful girls that we saw who lost their parents,
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killed by Boko Haram.
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And then knowing that I was going in to speak
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with an ex-fighter and the wife of three of them.
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But this was something that I've heard about, but it was so far.
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But seeing these two young people in front of me, it made it real.
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And I was just trying hard not to shake,
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because he told me that he killed so many people,
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but he was smiling while saying that.
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But at the same time, what these kids were asking for is:
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"Do not stigmatize us.
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We are also victims and we want a second chance."
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- One of the things that has...
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challenged me in this whole project
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is the fact that...
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me coming from Lagos,
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our realities are totally different.
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These regions are still very part of the country that I live in.
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- Yeah.
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- And I'm uncomfortable with the fact that...
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I will probably go back tomorrow and live my life as I've always.
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- It's all of us,
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because when you see that the lake has receded,
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that's not the villagers' responsibility.
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- Responsibility. - The consequences...
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are here for us to see.
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- Whatever I do now is gonna affect you, one way or the other.
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- In French, we call it:
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♪ Yeah hey ♪
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♪ Oh sister ♪
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♪ Why are you crying ♪
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♪ My brother ♪
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♪ Why are you scared and blue ♪
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♪ I know it's not that easy ♪ ♪ Easy ♪
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♪ The world can be deceiving ♪
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♪ Deceiving ♪
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♪ Today now you wear a crown of shame ♪
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♪ But through your eyes I see sunshine and rain ♪
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♪ When the world has turned its back on you ♪
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♪ I got you I got you ♪
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♪ When you feel it's all said and done ♪
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♪ I got you I got you ♪
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♪ When it's time for you to stand your ground ♪
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♪ I got you I got you ♪
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(music fading)
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(drumming)
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- Sometimes I can't help but wonder
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if we are ever going to succeed in this, because it's bold.
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(singing)
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(spirited singing)
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- Africa is home to the youngest population in the world.
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By 2050, there will be more than a billion young people
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under the age of 25 on the continent.
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With a growing population...
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...and the negative impact of the changing climate...
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...the number of youth expected to leave the continent...
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...will only increase.
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In Niger, women have an average of more than seven children.
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It's the highest birth rate on the planet.
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- Wow.
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(laughter)
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(baby crying)
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- For the youth across Africa...
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...Niger is the crossroads on the way to Europe.
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Sixty-million people are expected to leave by 2050.
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What else can you do...
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...than try to find a better life?
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Bonjour, mon frère.
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(soft guitar music)
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(crying)
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(soft flute and guitar music)
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Being able to provide for your family
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is the duty of a lot of young people.
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A lot of them decide to go
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and find the opportunities somewhere else.
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They will go through hell.
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When you really don't have the choice, you take that risk.
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I thought that I really knew Africa,
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because of the different experience that I've been through in my life.
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But during this journey, I realized that I know nothing.
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I am not that brave, I'm not that resilient.
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Because I was far, far, far...
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from what I've seen.
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When most people think about Ethiopia...
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...they think of the famine in the 1980s.
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More than 400,000 people died.
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The country was devastated by major drought.
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What most people don't know...
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...is that today...
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...they have another story to tell.
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Oh, hi, Betty! - Hello.
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- Nice to meet you. - Nice to meet you, too.
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Welcome to Ethiopia. - Thank you. (laughter)
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- So this is actually the end of your journey.
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Do you think your experience is fuelling this last song?
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- That will definitely have an impact,
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and that's the exciting part of the challenge
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of coming to a country and collaborating.
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We still have the images of the famine in the '80s.
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What I wish, with the music that we're doing,
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is that the world can see another side.
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- In this country, we have 82 different ethnics,
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with different language and different culture.
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(singing) (drumming)
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On top of it, we have different religions.
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For all of us to live together,
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we harmonize in some sort of way.
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And it creates this Little Africa...
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...within Africa.
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- Betty G makes these traditional Ethiopian sounds with pop music.
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(crowd cheering) We both want to incorporate the idea of unity into the song.
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My hope is that all the musicians coming together...
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...can be a reflection of the spirit of the Great Green Wall.
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- This is an amazing project that you guys are working on.
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What kind of change would you want to see with the audiences,
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or with the people who are gonna get a hold of this album, this song?
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- It's about people being inspired by these stories.
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Knowing that in Africa,
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it's not just about disease and poverty.
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Hopefully, it will change the idea that people have of Africa.
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01:14:19,755 --> 01:14:21,131
- That image needs to be different,
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not just for the rest of the world, but even for ourselves.
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- The Great Green Wall has brought hope.
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The first step to achieving anything is--
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- Is you have to dream it first. - Yeah, and you have to believe that you can do it.
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♪ I will rise with you I will stand with you ♪
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If I have to I will fight for you ♪
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We need to change the mind-sets.
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Empowering all these young people
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will assure us that the future will be brighter.
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I started this journey travelling from west to east,
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and the Great Green Wall has been a roadmap for me to create an album.
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And the main goal for this album is to bring awareness
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to this region of the Sahel.
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The initiative started here in the African Union,
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but I would like to know how we're going to achieve the goal.
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- If you see something as just a problem...
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01:16:30,637 --> 01:16:34,139
...you're not going to find a solution.
421
01:16:42,524 --> 01:16:46,653
To achieve anything ambitious...
422
01:16:47,654 --> 01:16:51,156
...it starts with a change of mind-set.
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01:17:07,841 --> 01:17:10,593
Thank you for meeting me in your home.
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01:17:10,593 --> 01:17:13,555
- Yes, uh... (laughter)
425
01:17:16,724 --> 01:17:18,809
- And this one?
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01:17:19,017 --> 01:17:21,479
- Avocado. Ah. - Avocado.
427
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- You were here in 1984 when the famine happened.
428
01:17:37,119 --> 01:17:40,498
How did that personally impact you?
429
01:19:21,098 --> 01:19:22,976
- All of this?
430
01:19:45,915 --> 01:19:48,083
- Incredible.
431
01:20:21,325 --> 01:20:22,910
- Yes.
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(singing)
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01:21:42,364 --> 01:21:47,619
- I never expected that the region of Tigray would be so green.
434
01:21:49,371 --> 01:21:53,918
The work that the communities have done in 30 years
435
01:21:53,918 --> 01:21:57,714
is just... mind-blowing.
436
01:21:59,882 --> 01:22:05,972
It's a perfect example for the rest of the Sahel...
437
01:22:06,764 --> 01:22:08,598
...to see that...
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01:22:08,598 --> 01:22:11,059
we can make a change.
439
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(music) (crowd cheering)
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♪ If the world thinks that you're not enough ♪
441
01:22:29,327 --> 01:22:32,999
♪ They cannot feel the fire in your bones ♪
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01:22:32,999 --> 01:22:36,919
♪ Here you stand in your truth and your flaws ♪
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01:22:36,919 --> 01:22:40,131
♪ Who are they to throw you their stones ♪
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01:22:40,131 --> 01:22:43,633
♪ I will rise with you I will stand with you ♪
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01:22:43,633 --> 01:22:48,765
♪ If I have to I will fight for you ♪
446
01:23:10,702 --> 01:23:12,621
♪ We will stand as one ♪
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01:23:12,621 --> 01:23:14,289
♪ We will lead as one ♪
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01:23:14,289 --> 01:23:17,666
♪ If we have to we will fight as one ♪
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01:23:17,666 --> 01:23:21,630
♪ I will rise with you I will stand with you ♪
450
01:23:21,630 --> 01:23:27,053
♪ If I have to I will fight for you ♪
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01:23:27,261 --> 01:23:30,223
(drumming and singing)
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01:23:51,368 --> 01:23:53,037
Being from the Sahel,
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01:23:53,037 --> 01:23:54,746
I knew that...
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01:23:54,746 --> 01:23:58,166
the change in climate affects people.
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01:23:59,919 --> 01:24:03,505
But now that I've been on this journey...
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01:24:03,881 --> 01:24:07,759
...now I know what kind of race we are in.
457
01:24:09,719 --> 01:24:13,182
We need to make this happen now.
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01:24:17,811 --> 01:24:22,316
I want to believe that we are going to do enough
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to protect the next generation.
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01:24:29,781 --> 01:24:34,287
Communities, they cannot make this change alone.
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01:24:36,122 --> 01:24:39,291
It has to become a movement.
462
01:24:40,834 --> 01:24:45,214
From the whole continent, from the whole world.
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- Please welcome Inna Modja.
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(applause)
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- Ladies and gentlemen,
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Your Excellency,
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I stand before you
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after making a great journey across the Sahel.
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This vibrant and vulnerable region that I love...
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...is embattledby desertification and drought,
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01:26:34,407 --> 01:26:38,035
migration and conflict.
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01:26:42,206 --> 01:26:46,210
With the acceleration of our changing climate,
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01:26:46,210 --> 01:26:49,629
we are now in a race against time.
474
01:26:56,720 --> 01:26:59,056
It won't be easy...
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01:27:00,515 --> 01:27:01,516
...but we all know
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01:27:01,516 --> 01:27:06,147
there is massive human potential to rise to the challenge.
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01:27:14,405 --> 01:27:17,699
I set out of my journey to record an album
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that captured the spirit of an African dream.
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01:27:22,787 --> 01:27:24,415
And in that quest,
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I was inspired by the resilience and the resolve of people.
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I might probably never see the end of this project...
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01:27:42,932 --> 01:27:46,811
...but we sow the seeds in our lifetime
483
01:27:46,811 --> 01:27:49,981
so other hands may harvest.
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01:27:54,111 --> 01:27:57,906
I cannot say we're going to be alright.
485
01:28:01,535 --> 01:28:04,996
It's up to us to write that story.
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01:28:07,124 --> 01:28:11,128
We need to be vigilant every day.
487
01:28:15,799 --> 01:28:17,468
It's up to us to...
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01:28:17,468 --> 01:28:20,137
create an African dream.
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01:28:25,892 --> 01:28:29,396
In the words of Thomas Sankara...
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"We must dare to invent the future."
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01:28:39,532 --> 01:28:42,617
As a daughter of the Sahel...
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...I ask you...
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...to please join me.
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(singing in foreign language)
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(rapping)
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(singing)
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01:30:50,954 --> 01:30:53,499
(man rapping)
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01:31:39,712 --> 01:31:41,921
(music)
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