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Africa Lives On The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
The New Africa
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Millions of people across Africa tune into Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ World Service
every day.
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Now, Africa Lives On The Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ allows the World Service
to take the pulse of today's Africa and convey African-produced and themed
programmes to its English Network audience.
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The programmes seek to identify and explore trends that
will significantly shape Africa's future, uncover previously unreported
stories, and find out what young Africans have to say about their country.
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World Service News & Current Affairs brings listeners
authored reports from African journalists, a special edition of From
Our Own Correspondent and a series of short documentaries
about Africa's expanding middle class.
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Digital radio listeners get the chance to hear three popular
African Current Affairs programmes: Focus
on Africa, Network Africa and Africa
Live.
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Global Business
interviews successful African entrepreneurs, investigates the burgeoning
telecoms industry and assesses the importance of Kenya's unofficial "grey"
economy.
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Online, there's a special edition of Talking
Point on the new Africa, and Global
Village Voices hears from a young African audience - some
of them from the diaspora.
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Each day, from Monday 4 to Friday 8 July, magazine programme
Outlook will be co-hosted
with re-broadcast partners from East and West Africa, hearing
from young people about their lives and their vision of Africa's future.
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Arts programme The Ticket
discusses the future of African cinema, theatre, literature and music
with prominent young African film directors and writers; and
Masterpiece goes to Nollywood to profile the newly emerging
Nigerian film industry.
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Reporting Religion and
In Praise of God reflect
religious trends in Africa, reporting from Nigeria - which has been described
as the heart of the Christian world in the 21st century.
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