Up Front - VOA Africa

A local women-led organization Dine Diaspora's initiative to celebrate Black women in the food industry. In Ghana, a crowdfunding initiative to invest in small-to-medium holder farmers.

On this fresh, fast-paced show VOA's Jackson Mvunganyi talks to teens and young adults about politics, trends, lifestyles, health, entertainment, and other issues touching listeners’ lives.

For more on Upfront visit www.upfrontafrica.com

On this fresh, fast-paced show VOA's Jackson Mvunganyi talks to teens and young adults about politics, trends, lifestyles, health, entertainment, and other issues touching listeners’ lives.

For more on Upfront visit www.upfrontafrica.com

Even though digital and visual media has proliferated, radio remains popular. We talk to two radio broadcasters about the power and influence of radio in their communities.

Plus, Nigerians are getting ready to go to the polls in a historic election. How critical is the youth vote?

On this fresh, fast-paced show VOA's Jackson Mvunganyi talks to teens and young adults about politics, trends, lifestyles, health, entertainment, and other issues touching listeners’ lives.

For more on Upfront visit www.upfrontafrica.com

On this fresh, fast-paced show VOA's Jackson Mvunganyi talks to teens and young adults about politics, trends, lifestyles, health, entertainment, and other issues touching listeners’ lives.

For more on Upfront visit www.upfrontafrica.com

This week, Ethiopian American artist and Industrial designer Jomo Tariku joins us to talk about his Afrofuturistic furniture featured on Marvel's Black Panther-Wakanda Forever.

Tanzanian filmmaker Honeymoon Aljabri on her new movie Dodoma.

In our vox pop segment, Ghanaians speak on ways to help fix their economy.

On this fresh, fast-paced show VOA's Jackson Mvunganyi talks to teens and young adults about politics, trends, lifestyles, health, entertainment, and other issues touching listeners’ lives.

For more on Upfront visit www.upfrontafrica.com

China has a long history of economic and political ties with Africa. It is one of the continent's largest trade partners, providing over $140 billion in loans to finance infrastructure projects.

Critics say that Beijing is practicing debt-trap diplomacy, by lending to countries that it knows cannot repay the loans. Additionally, as part of what has been termed ‘Palace diplomacy’ China has donated multiple million-dollar buildings--including the headquarters of the African Union in Addis Ababa-- to a number of governments across the continent. For more analysis i spoke to Jyhjong Hwang a Global China Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow at the Boston University Global Development Policy Center. She leads research for the Chinese Loans to Africa Database for the 2021-2023 research cycles.

On this fresh, fast-paced show VOA's Jackson Mvunganyi talks to teens and young adults about politics, trends, lifestyles, health, entertainment, and other issues touching listeners’ lives.

For more on Upfront visit www.upfrontafrica.com