What鈥檚 on trend around the world?
Global trends, including freediving in Colombia, Sufi fusion music in Pakistan and South Korea鈥檚 new tourists. Plus 麻豆社 roadshow in Ethiopia; and My Home Town Tehran.
New fashions and passions are reported daily on the language services, so we鈥檝e brought together some of our favourites: freediving in Colombia, Sufi fusion music in Pakistan, dreadlocks in Nigeria, and a new kind of tourism in South Korea. With Beatriz de la Pava of 麻豆社 Mundo, Julie Yoonnyung Lee of 麻豆社 Korean, Princess Abumere from 麻豆社 Lagos, and Farah Karim from 麻豆社 Africa, whose Global Beats programme this week discovers new music in her second home, Pakistan.
Ethiopian roadshow
Three Horn of Africa language services took to the road in Ethiopia recently to meet their audiences and gauge the mood of the country a year after Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed took office. With Kaleb Moges of 麻豆社 Amharic, Bekele Atoma of 麻豆社 Afaan Oromo and Yemane Nagish of 麻豆社 Tigrinya.
My Home Town: Tehran
In the series where Fifth Floor colleagues take us to the place where they grew up through sight, sound, scent and other memories, we visit Tehran with Golnoosh Golshani.
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