What’s on trend around the world?
Global trends, including freediving in Colombia, Sufi fusion music in Pakistan and South Korea’s new tourists. Plus ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ roadshow in Ethiopia; and My ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Town Tehran.
New fashions and passions are reported daily on the language services, so we’ve 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Mundo, Julie Yoonnyung Lee of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Korean, Princess Abumere from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Lagos, and Farah Karim from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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 ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Amharic, Bekele Atoma of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Afaan Oromo and Yemane Nagish of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Tigrinya.
My ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ 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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