In the Democratic Republic of the Congo, street rappers fight President Joseph Kabila’s government with music.

This radio documentary explores how culture and language can become entombed in the history books if diversity is not purposefully protected.

As rising sea levels slowly engulf the ancestral graves of a fishing community in Ivory Coast, residents are moving their relatives before their bodies are lost forever.

Each year, people around the world drink about 6 billion cups of rooibos tea. That’s 15,500 tons of the stuff, produced annually. And all of it comes from just one small place in South Africa.

Smokestacks dominate. The Matimba and Medupi power stations lord over shacks, farms, houses, schools, busy churches, emptying shops, and gun stores arming a vast hunting industry. There’s a McDonald’s. And, underneath the carbon dioxide plume, the coal town of Lephalale roils in anger, racism, corruption and fading hope.

Longread on the Cultures of the Danube Delta.

On the 24th of February 2022, the Russian Federation invaded Ukraine. The field research, in both Romania and Ukraine, for this article was conducted in 2021.