Africa region

1. Go to the site Radio Garden:

http://radio.garden/

Once the site loads explore African stations. Find and spend time during our first week listening to at least three different stations in at least three distinct African regions. As you listen to each of your stations, take notes as you try to use each station as evidence of some human geographical features of the area (ex. language, religion, cultural forms and functions of music or other forums such as talk shows). You can and should use this assignment along with our intro reading about African geography, the two assignments compliment each other. Once you are settled into a station, do internet searches to inform your notes, be sure to look for recent relevant news (a google news search would be a fine starting point) for the countries and cities you explore and select. In this orientation exercise, you do not have to understand the languages you will be listening to, but with patience you may be surprised what you understand. Push yourself to try to not select only what is easiest. So, if you do have some familiarity with languages (english and french have hundreds of millions of African speakers), forms of music (American r&b is huge continent wide), regions (perhaps you are from Nigeria) do not only choose stations broadcasting in languages or regions that you are highly familiar with.

2. Write and post an overview (150 words min.) explaining what you considered to be the three most important and interesting points that you found for each station. If possible consider any conclusions that you can draw about your three distinct regions including political geography (political borders), cultural geography (religion or language), physical geography (aspects of land area and usage – ex. high urban or rural areas). Organize and proof read your points. When you post you will be able to view other’s work.

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