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Mission Compass · Episode 42

Radio in the Sahel: Broadcasting Where Missionaries Can't Stay

With a West Africa field director (name withheld)

Across the Sahel, security conditions force missionaries out — but the radio signal stays. Our guest has spent two decades serving the region and explains why audio is often the only ministry that can remain when everything else evacuates.

In this episode: what a listening group looks like in a Muslim-majority village, how fix-tuned radios protect both listeners and broadcasters, and what happened when one chief asked for a second radio “for the far compound.”

Related: the Radios for the Sahel project is raising funds for 1,500 solar radios for this region — find it under Current Projects.

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