If you want to rule the world, these days, it seems that what you need is a super hot social media strategy. Someone who can promote you and make the things you talk about trend on Twitter and other social media portals. In Africa, one of the companies doing this is "African Tags". Vincent Osiemo, known as @vinny_wa on twitter works with African tags and explained how this company works.

The One Young World Summit has just wrapped up in Ottawa, Canada. 1300 people took part from over 190 countries. They examined issues as diverse as extremism, climate change, poverty and how to start up your own social enterprise. DW went to meet the delegates and find out a bit more about the issues which concerned them.

Thuli Madonsela will be ending her term as people's protector this week. During her time in office she's claimed a special place in the nation's heart, and particularly amongst its youth. She's not an Instagram celebrity though, but an advocate and constitutional force who stood up for the little people across South Africa and brought state organs to account.

On this edition of Pulse, we find out how intersex persons in Malawi overcome discrimination, how African men define beauty with regards a woman's skin color, about Tanzania's thriving, yet unknown film industry and about the all-growing 'Sheng' lingua franca in Kenya

At first glance 'The Rising of the Son' could be a spell-binding gangster movie emerging from the heart of Freetown, Lion Base, Sierra Leone’s hood of all hoods. But, this is Tunde's life story. A young man caught up in a gang, running away from his fears and living on the streets. Bringing this intimate perspective to the big screen is writer and director Patrice Bart-Williams.

Ten-year-old Canadian, Charlie Lowthian Rickert, is transgender and has been campaigning for trans rights since she was 8. She is already comfortable giving media interviews and recently received with rapturous applause by the LGBTQ community in Ottawa when she led the city’s Pride Parade. Sian Griffiths met with Charlie and her family during Pride Week in the capital.

On this week’s edition of Pulse with host Jessie Wingard, we meet Patrice Bart-Williams, a popular German-Sierra Leonean musician, and now up-and-coming film-maker, who seems destined for big ‘cinematic’ achievements. A young activist in Canada is paving the way for transgender rights. Plus, we hear about a woman redefining beauty for millions across the world.

In Canada, firefighting is seen as one of the last male bastions. Just three percent of firefighters there are women. Which is why fire chiefs are coming up with innovative ways to attract young women into the profession.

The subject of hair and how you wear it has made headlines in South Africa. Back in August, a group of students at Pretoria Girls High School staged a protest against a school policy they say banned their natural hair, requiring them to chemically straighten or braid it to conform to the school's strict code of conduct. The girls' protest sparked a national debate about racism in schools.

This week on Pulse: the politics of hair in South Africa, meet the director of the ‘first-ever African teen film’, and how sisters in Canada are doin’ it for themselves.