This smartphone app seeks to grow podcasts and audiobooks in Ethiopia

The World

Today is World Radio Day. Throughout the world, radio remains one of the most widely consumed mediums. Of course, these days there are different forms of tuning in, such as podcasts and audiobooks. In Ethiopia, a new app called “Teraki,” the Amharic word for storyteller, is one new online audio platform. The World’s Halima Gikandi brings us more.

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