Today on Pulse, we meet Uganda’s first female DJ. Sit down with the first African winner in Google’s annual coding competition. And, find out about a project giving marginalized youth a voice. All that and more with host Jessie Wingard.

How do you overcome challenges as a young person? Two youngsters in Ghana tell us about their gambling addiction, a blogger discusses press freedom in Uganda and the Indian city of Goa reclassifies the palm tree.

Twenty jam-packed minutes of fun, mind-stimulating information and music: Each week, Pulse brings you the latest in youth culture from around the world.

On today's show we'll be exploring some uncomfortable truths; from how to talk about sex in rural Ghana; to the dirty business of migration politics in the Netherlands; and meeting the Spanish youth who are unable to leave home.

Twenty jam-packed minutes of fun, mind-stimulating information and music: Each week, Pulse brings you the latest in youth culture from around the world.

This week on Pulse: Rapping for peace in Central African Republic +++ Ghana's Rastafarians fight discrimination against their dreadlocked children +++ Sierra Leonean blind musician reaching for the skies

This week on Pulse: An outlook on the media freedom in Africa. We also find out why most Zambian women can't do without weaves and hair extensions and join Zimbabwe's national football team on the pitch as they gear up for the 2017 AFCON tournament. Plus #My2017Commandments is trending..find out why.

On Pulse this week, two teenage girls go on trial in Morocco after being suspected of same-sex conduct. We meet an African football team, playing club football in Germany, with players from all over the African continent and we hear the story of two chocolatiers in Vietnam.

Twenty jam-packed minutes of fun, mind-stimulating information and music. Listen to Pulse every Wednesday as audio on demand.

It's Christmas time in many parts of the world, a time of the year which is traditionally about giving and feasting. But just like many other years, some people are experiencing food shortages and famine. This week on Pulse we head to Maiduguri, in northern Nigeria, hear from a pop-up restaurant from Spain and about organic farming in Senegal.