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The Kenyan government has announced plans that 60% of music on radio and TV stations in the country should be local. But is that realistic? And does it matter that Kenyan radios and nightclubs are so enamoured with Nigerian and other grooves? From the Fifth Floor, journalists Frenny Jowi from Kenya and Peter Okwoche from Nigeria share stories of the tracks that define nations and identity.

Postcard from Havana
On the day John Kerry visits Havana to inaugurate the first US Embassy in Cuba for 54 years, 大象传媒 Monitoring's Emilio San Pedro takes us on a tour of the city and asks what the future holds for Cubans as they re-establish ties with the superpower over the water. This is the second in a series looking at Cuba on the edge of change.

The Taiwanese grandfathers on different sides of the war
Tzu Wei Liu of 大象传媒 Chinese is from Taiwan, which was a Japanese colony until 1945. Her paternal grandfather was taught Japanese at school in Taiwan, while her mother's father was a child in China, hiding in caves from Japanese shelling. Tzu Wei has been investigating the hidden divisions in her family, and speculates that many other Taiwanese must share equally complicated identities.

A snapshot from the Edinburgh Fringe Festival
Every year, the Scottish capital Edinburgh hosts the biggest arts festival in the world: over 50,000 performances from almost 50 countries. Pooneh Ghodoosi of the 大象传媒's Persian service is in Edinburgh seeking out the Iranian talent on offer.

Hunting Tales
As the debate about Cecil the Lion rumbles on, we go on safari on the Fifth Floor to hear about other trophy animals and the people who hunt them, from the Marco Polo sheep of Kyrgyzstan to the Anatolian lynx of Turkey.

And Fifi shares her favourite funny stories from the world wide web this week

(Picture: Kenyan singer Nameless performing at MTV African Music Awards. Credit: Getty Images)