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This week you’ll hear the answer to the question about the Guediawaye Hip Hop Centre in Senegal. There’s an overflowing Sound Kitchen mailbag filled with your news, great music from Tanzania, and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the arrow in the photo and enjoy!

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Hello everyone!

Welcome to The Sound Kitchen. You can catch the programme on-the-air every Saturday at 6:15, 7:15, 14:45 and 16:45 universal time. You’ll hear the winner’s names announced and the week’s quiz question, along with all the other ingredients you have grown accustomed to: your letters and essays, “On This Day”, quirky facts and news, interviews and great music, so be sure and tune in every Saturday.

For our DX enthusiast friends: Our shortwave frequency is 11830 kHz on the 25m band, from 06.00 to 07.00 UT every day. We’ve had reception reports from Algeria, Australia, Bangladesh, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, China, Columbia, Cuba, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Germany, India, Indonesia, Israel, Italy, Japan, Kazakhstan, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Peru, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Sierra Leone, Slovenia, Sweden, the United Arab Emirates, Ukraine, the UK and the US, and although the frequency is “aimed” (or however that works) towards the African continent, give it a try. You never know … and be sure and send us your reception reports. Maybe we can get more time, which would be wonderful.

You can also hear our programs on WRMI (http://www.wrmi.net/) and WRN (http://www.wrn.org/listeners/). These broadcasters diffuse our programs out of the goodness of their hearts, but unless you tell us how you heard us we have no way of knowing … so do write and tell us how you listen to us.

Fabulous News! We now have an RFI English newsletter! On the very top of our homepage, there’s a little tab that says “Newsletters”. Click on it and fill out the form, and every day you’ll receive the latest from the RFI English website.

We look forward to seeing all your names on our brand-new subscriber’s list. And congratulations to our web team for making it happen. Way to go David, Tony and Isabelle!

We want to hear from you. We have a phone number you can call to leave us a message, so we can hear your voice. Just call, give your name, your country, and a short message - something like “I love RFI”, because of course you do – and we can put you on-the-air. The number to call is: + 33 1 84 22 95 82.

A hearty welcome to two new official RFI Listeners Clubs. There’s the Divin-Alam RFI Club in Alim-Fundong, Cameroon, with Njang Marinette Njong as president, and the Naz RFI and Internet Fan Club in Faisal Abad, Pakistan, with Rasheed Naz as president. Additionally, the Hope Yang RFI Club in Njinikom, Cameroon, Jinabo Cyrille Fointama, president, has just added new members - so welcome to you too, new Hope Yangers!

That brings us up to 53 official RFI Clubs across the world – we are so pleased!

If you would like to create an official RFI club or transform your existing listeners club into an RFI club, click on the link below for information on how to get started.

http://www.english.rfi.fr/culture/20141218-how-form-official-rfi-listeners-club

We have new RFI Listeners Club members to welcome, too: there’sDavid A B Konneh from Monrovia, Liberia; Francis Sundima Tucker from The Gambia, and Preeti Bhatta, from Murshidabad, India. Welcome welcome welcome!

So glad you have joined us!

You too can be a member of the RFI Listeners Club – just write me at english.service@rfi.fr and tell me you want to join, and I’ll send you a membership number. It’s that easy. When you win a Sound Kitchen quiz as an RFI Listeners Club member, you receive a premium prize.

The Fourth Annual RFI Clubs Football Tournament is underway! RFI provides footballs, jerseys and trophies to RFI Clubs who want to organize their own tournaments to correspond with the World Cup games, and several RFI English Clubs signed up. You’ll see their photos on our Facebook pages and hear about their matches on The Sound Kitchen, so be sure and tune in every week.

RFI Clubs: Be sure to always include Audrey Iattoni (audrey.iattoni@rfi.fr) from our Listener Relations department on all your RFI Club correspondence. Remember to copy me (thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr) when you write her so that I know what is going on, too.

We’ve made a Facebook page just for you, the RFI English Clubs. It is a closed group, so when you apply to join, be sure you include the name of your RFI Club and your membership number. Everyone can look at it, but only members of the group can post on it. If you haven’t yet asked to join the group, go to https://www.facebook.com/groups/583819955292977/ and fill out the questionnaire !!!!! (if you do not answer the questions, I click “decline”).

Are you interested in forming an official RFI Club, or transforming your existing club into an official RFI Club?  Here’s how: http://en.rfi.fr/culture/20141218-how-form-official-rfi-listeners-club

This week’s quiz:On 19May, I asked you a question which required you to listen to one of our “International Reports”, a program which features our correspondents from around the world reporting on a huge variety of happenings all over the globe.

Specifically, you were to listen to a report sent to us from Senegal, by Emmanuel Landais. Emmanuel reported on a center for disenfranchised youths in Dakar, called the Guediawaye Hip Hop Centre, which was founded by the international hip hop star Fou Malade. But it is not just hip hop that the youngsters are learning at the center, Emmanuel reported … there’s something else. My question to you was: what is this “other thing”? You were to listen to the report and write in with what the young people at the Guediawaye Hip Hop Center in Senegal are learning to do aside from hip hop. I even gave you a hint: the kids are called the “green volunteers”.

The answer is:gardening! Hence the "green" volunteers. As the founder of the center Fou Malade explained to Emmanuel Landais, by providing a safe place for the troubled youths and providing them with work – the gardening – he hopes to teach them the value of work, to teach them pride through work, and become, as he said: “valuable to society, rather than a burden”. It seems to be working, too. People in the neighborhood come to the center to buy their produce, get to know the young men, talk to them as they pass by … all leading to harmonious relationships and a feeling of community, of belonging - something which the young men, sadly, know little about. Bravo Guediawaye Hip Hop Center – and thanks, Emmanuel Landais for telling us about it.

The winners are: Five RFI Listeners Club members this week, three from India: Selva Raj from Tamilnadu; SK Tanveer Hussain from Odisha and Jayanta Chakrabarty from New Delhi. Changing continents, there’s Father Stephen Wara from Bamenda, Cameroon and Bernard Egbe from Abuja, Nigeria.

Congratulations winners!

Here’s the music you heard on this week’s program:Chabrier: “Espana”, performed by the BBC Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin; Rimsky-Korsakov: “The Flight of the Bumblebee” and “Matrida Huna Siri” written and performed by Mbaraka Mwinshehe.

Do you have a musical request? Send it to thesoundkitchen@rfi.fr

This week’s question ... You'll have to listen to the show to participate. You have until 27 August to enter this week's quiz. The winners will be announced on the 1 September program. When you enter, be sure you send your postal address in with your answer, and if you have one, your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

Send your answers to:

english.service@rfi.fr

or

Susan Owensby

RFI – The Sound Kitchen

80, rue Camille Desmoulins

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

or

By text … You can also send your quiz answers to The Sound Kitchen mobile phone. Dial your country’s international access code, or “ + ”, then  33 6 31 12 96 82. Don’t forget to include your mailing address in your text – and if you have one,your RFI Listeners Club membership number.

To find out how you can win a special Sound Kitchen prize, click here:

http://www.english.rfi.fr/culture/20141218-sound-kitchen-essay-contests

To find out how you can become a member of the RFI Listeners Club, or to form your own official RFI Club, click here:

http://www.english.rfi.fr/culture/20141218-how-form-official-rfi-listeners-club

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