Ethiopia: New 'reality radio' show reaches out to youth
ADDIS ABABA: Yehualshet Getu, 22, excitedly freshens up and changes his clothes: today is a big day. "I have a first date with a girl I've known for a long time at school," he tells his best friend. "After I talk to her for a while I will kiss her."
His date, Elizabeth Denberu, 20, is just as excited, trying to decide which dress to wear on her big night out: "I am eager to listen to what he will say to me," she says to her best friend. "Today we will talk and laugh, but I do not want to do anything after that."
The conversations, and later the date itself, are recorded and broadcast every week on a local Ethiopian radio station, Sheger FM, in a new 30-minute youth-focused radio show, Dagu Addis.
