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Celebrate the weekend by dancing to Afrobeat, eating Indian street treats, watching a play that's equal parts Shakespeare and Tarantino or greening up your neighborhood.

It’s time for another edition of weekend passport, where we help you find a way to experience another country without having to buy a plane ticket.Today we’re heading to the Congo.

Director Claude Lanzmann was a French resistance fighter and a lover of Simone de Beavoir. He’s best known for his epic nine-and-a-half hour documentary, Shoah. The film is considered to be one of the most important records of Holocaust history.

Kids cost a pretty penny these days. According to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, it costs a middle-income, two-parent family $226,920, on average, to raise a child from birth to age 18—that’s almost 14 grand every year!

Russell Johnson followed a truck full of drum-banging party-goers near Lake Erhai in Yunnan Province, China. He was unexpectedly invited to a very happy and noisy traditional Bai wedding. Russell shares his experience on Worldview.This piece comes from the Public Radio Exchange.

In China, marriage-age men outnumber women by the millions. Experts predict that by 2020, the number of men unable to find wives will reach the population of Texas. Many men have taken on traditionally female roles in the community like caregiving. Worldview examines China's entirely male villages.

China has the world’s highest rate of cesarean births. Nearly half of all Chinese women deliver their babies by C-section, and in many cases for no medical reason.