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African kids recording Chinese video messages: cute gimmick or racist exploitation?

ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ reporter Runako Celina tells us about her long search for the origins of a shocking video circulating on Chinese social media in 2020. It showed a group of African children being instructed to chant racist phrases in Chinese. The answers Runako found are in her ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa Eye documentary Racism for Sale.

For the love of mangoes!
We unleash the Fifth Floor mic in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Delhi bureau where colleagues from the Indian language services share their love of mangoes, especially their local varieties. Thanks to Siddhanath Ganu of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Marathi, Sarika Singh of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Hindi, Khushboo Sandhu of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Punjabi, Brijal Shah of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Gujarati, Venkat Prasad G of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Telugu and Saranya Nagarajan of ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Tamil.

New words and a culture shift in Ukraine
'Putler', 'Ruscists' and 'Anglo-Saxons': what words can tell us about the cultural shift in Ukraine since the invasion, and why some are 'changing their shoes mid-air', with Vitaliy Shevchenko from ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Monitoring.

Bangladesh container depot blast
The devastating explosion at the Sitakunda container depot near Chittagong killed more than 40 people and injured hundreds. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Bangla journalist Shahnewaj Rocky is from Chittagong and spoke with firefighters and some of those who rushed to help the victims.

Ventriloquist queen
American ventriloquist Angelique-Monet became a queen in Nigeria after falling in love with a Nigerian king and marrying him. She lives in Eti-Oni in southern Nigeria where she and her puppet, Milk the Cow, entertain local children with their skills. ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Africa's Youth News reporter Damilola Oduolowu caught her show.

(Photo: A Chinese greeting from African children. Credit: ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½)

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