Bar-Kulan Gets Going

Was delighted to do an interview with David Smith, the launch director of Radio Bar-Kulan. This is a new venture based on successful projects in Congo and the Central African Republic. The task of uniting Somalis in a country with no functioning central government is daunting. But, I believe, if anyone has the expertise to get it right, it is the team of Somalis working alongside David Smith at the moment.

Radio Meeting Place for Somalia

 

Here at the studios of Radio Bar-Kulan interviewing the staff of one of the most interesting radio stations I have visited in a long time. The rest of the city is off on Easter holidays, but not this place. The brainchild of Okapi Media, it has set out to broadcast to a country that have suffered civil war and a lack of a stable government for over 20 years.