Ethnic groups in Africa

Music Heard on Air for September 5, 2013

Music Heard on Air

Tunes played between reports on The World for September 5, 2013 include the following artists: The Spy from Cairo, Samba Touré, Moriba Koita, The Feeling and Femi Kuti.

Music Heard on the Air for April 1, 2013

Music Heard on Air
The World

Funk Carioca Makes Comeback in Brazil Despite Bailes Crackdown

Arts, Culture & Media

Boston Band Club d’Elf

Arts, Culture & Media
The World

Harry Shearer watches Gustav from afar with the help of 30,000 satellites

Environment
The World

Geo Quiz and answer

Arts, Culture & Media

Today’s Geo Quiz takes us to the Horn of Africa, where an international team of scientists is studying a 35-mile long crack that opened up in the Afar region of Ethiopia in 2005. Afar is the answer to our Geo Quiz.

The World

Global Hit

Arts, Culture & Media

The World’s Marco Werman has details on the 15-year sentence handed to Rwandan singer Simon Bikindi for his role in the country’s 1994 genocide.

The World

Bringing justice to Rwanda’s rape victims

Conflict & Justice

Many thousands of Rwandan women were raped during the 1994 genocide, and their cases have been languishing in Rwanda’s broken court system, so now some are proposing to try these genocide rape cases in informal community courts