Pulse

  • Autor: Vários
  • Narrador: Vários
  • Editora: Podcast
  • Duração: 10:25:50
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Sinopse

With sound-rich radio packages, interviews, and studio discussions, Pulse digs deep into the issues facing today's youth, from unemployment and career choice to social media and relationships. We top it off with a couple of fun hosts and plenty of music, including live bands in the studio and reviews of the German charts. The Generation Change podcast series, featuring young people making a difference all over the world, is a regular highlight on Pulse.

Episódios

  • Pulse - taking the pulse of youth culture

    01/11/2017 Duração: 19min

    Twenty jam-packed minutes of fun, mind-stimulating information and music: Each week, Pulse brings you the latest in youth culture from around the world.

  • Pulse: Go-go music - African origin funk music lives on in Washington DC

    01/11/2017 Duração: 03min

    Popular Go-go funk music remains alive in Washington DC as one band prepares to take their music back to its origins in Africa.

  • Pulse: Inclusive dance Uganda - disability is not inability

    01/11/2017 Duração: 07min

    Disability is not inability; we meet a Ugandan based British woman who is helping inspire disabled persons through music and dance.

  • Pulse: Awareness creation and innovation

    24/10/2017 Duração: 19min

    On this week's Pulse, we meet a young German based Ghanaian actress touring the world addressing social issues facing Europe and Africa, a young student at Makerere University in Uganda is making a positive impact in his community using a mobile app and we take a look at youth unemployment in Liberia. All this, right here on Pulse. Take a listen.

  • Pulse: German based Ghanaian theater performer tours the world.

    24/10/2017 Duração: 05min

    Gifty Wiafe is in Ghana, doing a theater performance as part of her world tour dubbed “It’s in the Blood”. She is addressing issues facing contemporary Germany and Ghana as well as other parts of the world.

  • Pulse: AgroDuuka app - connecting farmers to customers

    24/10/2017 Duração: 07min

    23 year old Bazil Mwota, a Makerere University student, is making a positive impact on his community through the agroduuka app. This app will be an avenue to connect buyers to producers without the need for third parties.

  • Pulse: Ghanaian Chef in London makes African food trendy

    18/10/2017 Duração: 07min

    It’s official, African food is one of the hottest new food trends in London at the moment. Thanks to young cooks like Zoe Adjonyoh whose father is Ghanaian and mother is Irish. Zoe runs a restaurant in Brixton and has just published a cookbook, entitled Zoe's Ghana kitchen. Emma Wallis caught up with her at a trendy café in east London’s hipster central.

  • Pulse: Refugees, African cuisine, Aftermath

    17/10/2017 Duração: 19min

    What does the future hold for young South Sudanese refugees in Uganda? A young Ghanian-Irish cook brings African Cuisine to London and her customers cannot get enough of it and the Queen of everything Beyonce goes bilingual on a new remix of Mi-Gente, the global hit single by J Balvin and Willy William. All that and much more in this weeks edition of pulse with your host Jane Nyingi

  • Pulse: Youth and Lifestyle

    10/10/2017 Duração: 19min

    On this week's Pulse we’ll look at some of the consequences of online hacking in Uganda, what the youth in Liberia hope for in the country's presidential elections and a summit in London is scheduled to address the issue of menstruation particularly in low income families in the UK.

  • Pulse: Consequences of hacking in Uganda

    10/10/2017 Duração: 06min

    In Uganda, celebrities use various social media platforms to expand their fan base and conduct business. But now, the social media dream has turned sour because the rich and famous have been suffering from a spate of account hacking. Local celebrities who have fallen victim to this scam say hacking negatively affects their brand.

  • Pulse: Period campaigner in London

    10/10/2017 Duração: 06min

    "Period poverty" not only affects girls and women in developing countries but also those in the UK. It is when a woman doesn't have enough money to afford adequate sanitary protection for her monthly period. Campaigners in the UK are gearing up for a period summit on the 14th October where they aim to push the issue in to the open. One of those campaigners is a 17 year old schoolgirl from London.

  • Pulse: Youth standing in the gap

    06/10/2017 Duração: 19min

    In Pulse this week, a team of volunteers in Ghana have embarked on a reading clinic encouraging children to read aloud. The young members of the Rohingya community in Pakistan are a ticking time bomb waiting to explode as their people face trouble in Myanmar and a look at what’s being going on on the social media front.

  • Pulse: Youth standing in the gap

    04/10/2017 Duração: 19min

    In Pulse this week, a team of volunteers in Ghana have embarked on a reading clinic encouraging children to read aloud. The young members of the Rohingya community in Pakistan are a ticking time bomb waiting to explode as their people face trouble in Myanmar and a look at what’s being going on on the social media front.

  • Pulse: Rohingya families in Pakistan

    04/10/2017 Duração: 05min

    The recent wave of violence in Myanmar reminds the Pakistani Rohingya community of the reasons they left their homelands back in the sixties. Now younger generations, born in Pakistan, are angry about what is happening to Rohingyas in Myanmar. Our correspondent went along to meet them and find out what impact the events in Myanmar and Bangladesh is having on them in Pakistan.

  • Pulse: Reading aloud in Ghana

    04/10/2017 Duração: 06min

    This year to mark "Founders Day" on September 21st a team of volunteers embarked on a reading clinic and book drive event in Tamale, Ghana.  The League of Young Female Leaders gathered a group of volunteers who read aloud to children, and got them discussing books, literature and education. Reading aloud to children improves their sense of imagination and helps them learn to read for themselves.

  • Pulse: Mentorship and change

    26/09/2017 Duração: 19min

    In this week's Pulse, Mentorship clubs are being formed in schools, in rural Ghana, to help young girls boost their confidence. A closer look at microchip implants in Sweden and DW's Wanjiku Mwaura tells us about her trip to eastern Germany and her impressions of the mood in the country prior to the elections.

  • Pulse: Mentoring girls in rural Ghana

    26/09/2017 Duração: 06min

    Many young girls living in rural communities in Ghana appear to have low confidence in themselves. In academia for instance, educationists say lack of self-esteem amongst girls has affected their performance. To break this cycle, Portia Derry and Angela Seidu are mentoring younger girls in schools by forming mentorship clubs which seek to advance the status of girls from low income communities.

  • Pulse:Sydney Film Festival 2017

    19/09/2017 Duração: 04min

    The touring arm of the Sydney Film Festival has just concluded the screening of nine films that showcase the best of Australian and international movies in some selected 19 regions. This year, the films screened include the multi Award-winning movie Ali’s Wedding, described as a Muslim Romantic Comedy, as well a documentary of the late pop star Whitney Houston titled “Why can I be me”.

  • Pulse: HIV cases on the rise in Chile especially among the young people

    19/09/2017 Duração: 05min

    As HIV cases continue to reduce in most parts of the world, in Chile the infection rate has increased especially among the young people. According to the government figures, there are about 65,000 people living with HIV in the country, with 41,000 already diagnosed with the virus

  • Pulse:Risks of being a young female blogger and activist in DRC

    19/09/2017 Duração: 19min

    Today on Pulse, we focus on Chile which is battling with high HIV cases especially among the young people, we get to hear from Passy Mubalama on risks and challenges of being a young female blogger and activist in DRC, also you will get to know about the ongoing Sydney Film Festival all that plus some great music from Davido, Eddy Kenzo, Jason Derulo, and much more with your host Jane Nyingi.

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