Ladies and gentlemen. Welcome many of those. To Africa makes we are your source of African music and the music from African continent and the African Diaspora. Welcome to the show My Name is that in a call on you on. 91.7 f.m. And San Francisco and also on the web at k l w dot au or our g. I see my partner. On the blue I cannot. I cannot hear All right let s talk. Kenya. You. Blue Mike let s try the green. Mikes and they not working right away. We re going to play some music and I ve got a menorah and all here and. The house is full of Africans and too many if you ask me to be in one room. But we re going to come right back as soon as I get the. Mikes working and for now let s listen to some music this song is by a man named for Billy Williams who for many many years one of his songs my like has been trance covered by so many so many great. Belafonte. And Miriam McCann Bon Amor but a song that is also as popular but in Kenya as this song called Taxi Driver about renting a taxi to driv
Department accuses 3 Gupta brothers of bribery capturing government contracts and misappropriating state assets will Ross reports the sanctions which have been welcomed by the South African government freeze any u.s. Based assets belonging to the 3 Gupta brothers and the businessmen. American and international firms with subsidiaries in the us are effectively banned from doing any business with these 4 men they re accused of conspiring with the former president Jacob Zuma to get lucrative government contracts leading to the disappearance of billions of dollars of public funds the Gupta s who deny any wrongdoing left South Africa in a hurry and the scandal cost Mr Zuma the presidency women in Iran have been allowed to attend a football match in large numbers for the 1st time in decades is a way around demolished Cambodia by 14 goals to nil in a World Cup qualifier women had previously been barred from soccer stadiums. World news from the b.b.c. . Indigenous protesters in Ecuador have t
Woods who is white China is taking steps against the n.b.a. After the Houston. Tweeted support for democracy. Yesterday. Today China s state broadcaster says it won t show to. Games between. Its 3 scientists have been awarded this year s Nobel Prize physics N.P.R. s Geoff Brumfiel reports Together they ve created the foundation of understanding of the history of the universe the prize for one to 3 researchers. Discovered Jupiter like planets orbiting another star and the 3rd work on the early universe and sort of how the universe came together what it s made of the. This is. My name is Racine a fountain I am a writer write about the environment in kindergarten I had a teacher named misspeaking she was black favorite teacher and one of the things that she did to encourage natural connections with the students in her class she had a contest to see who could see the 1st robin of this spring who ever reported back seeing the 1st robin of the spring would get a prize Looking back I don t k
Thing for a composer to make this kind of maiden voyage. Now we could spend the rest of this hour talking about what a symphony is in fact there is no general agreement but to me there s a really obvious way to answer the question and that is simply to listen to the great works composed in the form and let s start with the father of the symphony Franciosa of Haydn Haydn s maiden voyage in the symphony form comes from the 750 s. He s in his twenty s 2527 years old living in Vienna freelancer working all over town and I m glad he took the step because he s going to write another 100 symphonies after this one so this is an important maiden voyage listen to how he starts something s coming up Charles and bass is simply plea deal. Over that the 1st violin climbs higher and higher. We have the feeling we ve arrived somewhere in effect right at that spot right quit playing the horns come in with a fan fare. Like the arrival of an important person it sounds like somebody just walked on stage
It s left an extension beyond 2 with the 31st the New Deal legislators in Italy have passed a new law to cut the number of parliamentarians by more than a 3rd it passed in the Lower House but it may yet be subject to referendum Here s Dannii behind for Italy s prime minister. The change is historic making politics cheaper and more efficient Italy has the 2nd largest number of parliamentarians in Europe behind only Britain there have been numerous failed attempts to slash numbers in the past from the next election the number of M.P. s will be reduced from more than 602400 more than 100 seats in the Senate will also go not everyone approves critics say it will weaken popular representation and make Parliament more susceptible to lobbyists You re listening to the world news from the b.b.c. . Thousands of demonstrators continue to converge in the Ecuadoran capital Quito after violent protests forced President Lenin merino to move government headquarters to the port city of quiet keel Mr M