The World’s Andrea Crossan reports from Nairobi, Kenya on worries over the swine flu hitting Africa. Just under 10 cases have been confirmed in sub-Sarahan Africa. But health experts are concerned about the disease spreading in the continent’s crowded slums. Listen
Anchor Lisa Mullins tells us how Kenyan politicians are taking the news that they must trade in their luxury cars for fuel-efficient cars. Listen
The World’s Andrea Crossan goes for a ride on Nairobi, Kenya’s preferred method of transportation, the mini-bus known as a matutu. On the way, she captures some photos and videos that give you a feel of what life is like for both those who ride, and those who work.
The answer to today’s Geo Quiz is the Egyptian city of Luxor located at the site of the ancient city of Thebes. Four Egyptian mummies from the Brooklyn Museum underwent a CAT scan this week. Anchor Lisa Mullins gets the story from the museum’s Egyptian art curator Edward Bleiburg. Listen
Anchor Marco Werman speaks with Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi the director of a documentary film that focuses on Senegalese musician Youssou N’Dour and his controversial 2004 album “Egypt.” The album was controversial in Senegal because it mixed music and religion. Listen
We were looking for the name of a book, and a country in Africa. The answers are “Out of Africa,” and Kenya. Listen
Today’s Global Hit features a tale of two piano masters — one from New Orleans, the other from Bamako, Mali. Anchor Marco Werman tells us who they are and how they borrow elements from each other’s musical culture. Listen
Africa’s longest-serving leader — Omar Bongo of Gabon — died this week. Anchor Marco Werman looks at the leaders who now move up on the list of longest reign over a country. Listen
The World’s Andrea Crossan is currently on assignment in Kenya. Follow along as she meets President Obama’s step-grandmother, and hears about the problems facing Kenyans today.
The oil company Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to settle a lawsuit accusing the company of human rights abuses in Nigeria. Shell is paying out 15.5 million dollars to relatives of the Nigerian writer and activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and others executed in 1995. The lawsuit claimed Shell was complicit in their deaths, though Shell did [...]
In the African nation of Zambia, abortion is legal, but few women realize it because abortion carries tremendous stigma and few medical clinics are prepared to offer the procedure. Rose Hoban visited a hospital in Lusaka. (contains graphic imagery)
We’re heading for the streets of an African mega-city. People there refer to the perennial traffic jams as “go-slows.” This is a chaotic city with a population of somewhere between 12 and 18 million people. It’s in Nigeria, but it’s not Nigeria’s capital. That would be Abuja.
