Rapping behind bars in Cameroon
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You're listening to the documentary from the BC World Service. Welcome to the fifth floor from the VBC World Service with me, Farnike Amy D. The BC World Service broadcasts in forty-five languages around the world. Our job here at the fifth floor is to bring you the best of those stories in English. Coming up, how a 13-year-old boy's rejection by an Egyptian football academy sparked a national conversation about anti-Christian discrimination.
Since 1990, there was only one famous Egyptian football player who was Christian who was playing in Al Ahli, which is one of the major football clubs in Egypt. People now are speaking about that out loudly.
But first. Nubel Prison in Douala, Cameroon operates a bit like a city within a city. The facility has its own taxis, its own law enforcement, but And its own market. The jail is overcrowded and under resourced and the occupants have adapted the jail's stretched system to work for them. An on-site music studio and label has also sprung up and found an international audience. Widali Chibelushi, journalist for BBC World's Online Africa, came into the fifth floor studio to tell us more about it.
A twenty twenty-two report from the human rights um organization, Human Rights Watch, found that there was four thousand seven hundred prisoners there and that's four times the capacity. And so you've got like prisoners sleeping in the courtyard under the stars because there's just not enough beds and they actually call them the penguins because they huddle together outside in the courtyard. And then also sanitation's really poor, so there's not clean drinking water, there's not enough food, so you get prisoners fighting over food. Water Also a lot of violence as well. So you've got gangs that operate in the prison, taking each other's food, money. Um, yeah, it can get quite bad there. In twenty twenty two there was a cholera outbreak and again human rights organisations have put the fact that it spread so quickly down to the fact that it's so overcrowded, the conditions are so poor, so at least six people died during the outbreak and th that's the figure that the authorities gave, but um d detainees have said that it's the death toll was much larger.
Yeah. When I was watching the videos, it doesn't even look like a prison. It kind of looks like a favela or like kind of like a spiralling slum. B a free for all basically. Yeah. Yeah. What kind of people end up in this prison?
So unlike a lot of prisons where you've got like either maximum security or prisons where, you know, you've got people that go for doing petty crimes with new ball is just the whole range. So you've got people who are on death row for doing murders, but you've also got people who have committed very low like petty crimes and minor crimes. So For example, there's a musician called Yeje who is from Nigeria but she moved to Cameroon to live with her uncle. And at the age of sixteen she ran away from his house and stole some of his money because of she says that he was abusing her. And so she ended up in New Bell for stealing from her uncle. So That is obviously in the women's prison are are they mixed?
Yeah, it's mixed.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–8:34
2
What makes New Bell Prison in Douala operate like a city within a city?
8:34–11:31
3
How severe is overcrowding at New Bell and what are its health impacts?
11:31–17:22
4
Who ends up behind bars at New Bell – from death‑row inmates to petty thieves?
17:22–23:07
5
How was the on‑site music studio and Jail Time Records created?
23:07–29:10