High-profile spiritual leaders exert broad political influence in India, most recently in driving a widespread anti-corruption protest. The World’s Alex Gallafent reports.
The World’s Alex Gallafent gets some pretty tough assignments. Like this one: trying out potato jalapeño latkes made by NYC-based Mexican chef Julian Medina.
The World’s Alex Gallafent reports from Johannesburg that South Africans are thinking about how to move on after the former leader dies. Some say that currrent leaders need to draw more from Mandela’s political legacy and exemplary personal ethics. Others say it’s time to move on.
Swazis are restless and their king is widely viewed as corrupt. But despite some protests, The World’s Alex Gallafent reports that Africa’s sole remaining monarchy seems likely to survive.
The World’s Alex Gallafent brings us the story of an 88-year-old tribal chief from Swaziland. He’s also a veteran of World War Two.
The World’s Alex Gallafent takes us into the New York studio of the Bulgarian-born artist Christo. Christo has just won federal approval for his latest project – a series of billowing panels of translucent fabric along the Arkansas River in Colorado. It’s called “Over the River” and it’s scheduled to go up for two weeks in 2012.
The World’s Alex Gallafent reports on South Africa’s latest pop sensation, Zahara. Her debut album has gone multi-platinum in South Africa, and she gave a private performance to Nelson Mandela.
The US State Department has been sending musicians overseas for years. The World’s Alex Gallafent meets a pair of American jazz musicians, Keri Chryst and Jeff Hoffman, as they deliver a workshop to a group of young vocalists in Swaziland.
Over the years I’ve developed an unenviable reputation as a serial track-changer. That is, I put on a bit of music for a friend, eagerly await the looks of rapture I assume will surely come over them, and then—either when said looks don’t appear or I think of something better to play—I change the track [...]
I’m in Johannesburg thanks to the International Reporting Project: There’ll be lots to say here and on the radio about South Africa and race, and race and religion, and religion and sexuality, and sexuality and HIV/AIDS. But for now, a few thoughts on public safety in Johannesburg.
An Indian improv troupe wants to do more than make people laugh. It wants to promote social change.
The language is having trouble keeping up with the times without the help of English.
A look at the changing role of visual imagery of famine in the media.
Nafissatou Diallo has broken her public silence on the sexual assault case.
James Murdoch is facing increasingly loud calls for his resignation. Other members of the Murdoch family may benefit.
