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On Daybreak Africa: U.S. President Joe Biden delivered his State of the Union address where he touted the achievements his administration has made, include creating 12 million new jobs and successfully managing the COVID-19 pandemic. Plus, UN authorities report that a peacekeepers convoy was attacked late Tuesday in the city of Goma, near an internally displaced people’s camp. For this and more, stay tuned to Daybreak Africa!

African Beat showcases the latest and the greatest of contemporary African music and conversation. From Benga to Juju, Hip Life to Bongo Flava, Bubu to Soukous and more, host David Vandy has his finger on the pulse of the hottest African music and related issues today.

Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.

Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James is now the National Basketball Association's all-time scoring leader.  On Tuesday night, LeBron passed the previous record held by former Lakers star Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and now has 38,390 career points, three points more than Kareem.  On Wednesday's show, we'll have reactions from LeBron, Kareem, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, Lakers coach Darvin Ham, and others.

This week, Ethiopian American artist and Industrial designer Jomo Tariku joins us to talk about his Afrofuturistic furniture featured on Marvel's Black Panther-Wakanda Forever. Tanzanian filmmaker Honeymoon Aljabri on her new movie Dodoma. In our vox pop segment, Ghanaians speak on ways to help fix their economy.

Africa News Tonight is a lively news magazine show featuring VOA correspondent reports, interviews with African officials, opposition leaders, NGOs and human rights activists. News feature stories look at science and technology, environmental issues, humanitarian topics, and the African diaspora.

On this edition of Straight Talk Africa, host Haydé Adams and her guests discuss U.S. President Joe Biden’s first State of the Union address during which he outlined his domestic and foreign policy priorities. Plus, what does the African Governance Index reveal about the continent? Our guests include Mo Ibrahim, founder and chair of the Mo Ibrahim Foundation, Johanna Leblanc, managing partner at Jleblanc Global Consulting and Calvin Dark, president of RC Communications.