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Pulse this week takes us to Ghana where one out five girls is married off before she reaches 18, we hear from an Oxford University student what young people make of Brexit and can rock 'n' roll ease the tension in the Korean Peninsula? These stories plus some good music to spice things up.

This week on Pulse; The Sierra Leonean community in London pays tribute to the mudslide victims of Freetown. In Kenya, political rivals Raila Odinga and President Uhuru Kenyatta differ on the repeat of presidential election, and does poverty have a color? We head to South Africa to find out.

In this week's edition of Pulse we take a look at African pop artists who are going abroad to make their music videos, the hard life of beach hawkers on the mediterranean islands, and we’ll get to hear from a Ugandan journalist who fled his country 8 years ago.

For the media in Africa restrictions range from subtle forms of censorship to imprisonment for journalists just doing their jobs. We meet Moses Okile Ebokorait, a journalist who fled his home country 8 years ago. He had to leave Uganda, because he saw that it was no longer safe for him. He now lives in Germany as a freelance journalist.

In today's world, image is everything. This has led to a major transformation in the African music industry with the artists not only investing heavily in top quality audio but also videos. Although some of them travel as far the US to shoot their videos the most preferred destinations of many are South Africa and Dubai.

There’s almost no corner you can turn in South Africa's most famous city, Cape Town, without bumping into beautiful people with toned bodies. Our reporter, Kerstin Welter, met a passionate entrepreneur, who not only owes his life to fermented foods but dedicated it to spreading the knowledge as far as he can. In a, let’s say, very 'sexy' way.

In India, relatively few women work in the sciences or engineering. And there certainly aren’t many who have grown up in the slums who get into those fields. But, one man in Mumbai is trying to change that.

This week on Pulse, we follow our gut in South Africa and get cravings for fermented foods. Girls in one of the world’s biggest slums are coding and building smartphone apps. We meet a German rapper who’s just returned from Africa, plus lots, lots more with host Jessie Wingard.

This week on the show, could Africa be harboring the next Albert Einstein? Lesbians in Pakistan are being silenced, often with tragic results. And, did Kenya's youth vote swing the election? All that and more coming up on this jam-packed edition of Pulse with host Jessie Wingard.

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