Extra Golden
Extra Golden is an unusual collaboration of musicians from Western Kenya and the Eastern USA. They recorded their first CD in Kenya, on a laptop, in a bar. Studio 360's Rob Weisberg asks the motley...
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[Unedited] Binyavanga Wainaina With Krista Tippett
We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective to the morality and...
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Binyavanga Wainaina — The Ethics of Aid: One Kenyan's Perspective [remix]
We explore the complex ethics of global aid with a young writer from Kenya, Binyavanga Wainaina. He is among a rising generation of African voices who bring a cautionary perspective to the morality and...
View ArticleA New Constitution for Kenya
Kenya may soon have a new constitution, which would reduce the powers of the Kenyan president, give citizens a new bill of rights and pave the way for land reform. Kenya is a key African ally of the...
View ArticleA Clean Election Brings Kenya a New Constitution
Kenyan politicians and citizens are celebrating a new constitution and a new future. Final results showed that the new constitution passed with 67 percent of the vote. The peaceful voting contrasts...
View ArticleInternational Criminal Court Moves to Indict Kenyan Politicians
News on Kenyan elections that sparked violence in 2007 and early 2008 was delivered today in the Netherlands. The disputed elections left 1200 dead and over 500,000 displaced, and now, the...
View ArticleHollywood in the Serengeti
A family’s trip to Africa changes everything in this excerpt from Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Goon Squad.Hollywood in the Serengeti: this entire program is given over to a single story, “Safari,”...
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TN MOVING STORIES: Feds Investigate Possible Oil Market Manipulation -- Taxi...
The Federal Trade Commission has launched a probe into whether companies, refineries, and/or traders have manipulated crude oil markets. (Wall Street Journal)A group representing thousands of New York...
View ArticlePersonal Debt Piles Up in Kenya
The economic crisis is being felt not just on Wall Street and among the international markets. It's hitting regular people all around the world. We look at Kenya where banks are fiercely competing for...
View Article750,000 Could Perish in Somali Famine
East Africa's worst drought in 60 years is only getting worse. The United Nations declared famine earlier this week in a new part of southern Somalia, and warned that as many as 750,000 people could...
View ArticleOver 100 Die in Pipeline Explosion in Nairobi
Over 100 people are dead and more than 80 have been taken to the hospital after a gas pipeline exploded in Kenya's capital this morning. The pipeline runs through Nairobi's densely populated Siani...
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[Unedited] Wangari Maathai with Krista Tippett
This unedited interview with Wangari Maathai was recorded in 2006 and is included in our show, "Planting the Future." Download the mp3 of the produced show at onbeing.org.
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Wangari Maathai — Planting the Future [remix]
A remarkable Kenyan woman and environmentalist speaks from experience about the links between ecology, human flourishing, war and peace, and democracy. And she shares her thoughts on where God resides.
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Hollywood in the Serengeti
A family’s trip to Africa changes everything in this excerpt from Jennifer Egan’s A Visit from the Good Squad.Hollywood in the Serengeti: this entire program is given over to a single story, “Safari,”...
View ArticleSelected Shorts: Money, Greed and Power
SHORTS collaborated with the public radio show Planet Money to bring you two stories about spending and earning, and one about compulsory consumerism. First, Kevin Canty’s “Where the Money Went”...
View ArticleAfrican Crossover Music
For this New Sounds, listen to musicians from Belgium, Switzerland, the U.K., and Italy working together with musicians living in Kenya, Senegal, Mali, Ethiopia and Burkina Faso. Hear the late...
View ArticleNairobi: A Young and Bustling City
The target of the Al Shabaab attacks—the Westgate Mall—is a popular destination not only for well-off Kenyans, but also for expats and international tourists. Among those killed last weekend were the...
View ArticleWestgate Shootings: The Kenyan Diaspora Watches
Kenyans in East Africa and abroad are watching the terror attack at an upscale Nairobi mall unfold. We hear from some members of the Kenyan diaspora about what they know and how their community is...
View ArticleMall Security in the Wake of the Attack in Kenya
The deadly attack at a mall in Nairobi, Kenya, is raising concerns about safety at our shopping centers. On Wednesday, a Long Island mall was temporarily on lockdown, while police searched for the...
View ArticleA resurgence of global terrorism?
The terrible attack on the Westgate shopping mall in Nairobi has refocused the world’s attention on the threat of urban terrorism. Gideon Rachman is joined in the studio by defence and diplomatic...
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