Al Jazeera launched a new global talk show called South 2 North -- the first global talk show based in Africa. The host, Redi Thlabi, talks to intriguing personalities from around the world. In the first episode, available online, Tlhabi talks to best-selling Indian author and activist Arundhati Roy and hears why she thinks that Nelson Mandela and Mahatma Gandhi should not be made into icons. 
Tlhabi is also joined by Ahmed Ag Kaedi, a Tuareg musician from northern Mali; Many Ansar, the director and founder of Mali's internationally acclaimed Festival in the Desert; and Tiseke Kasambala, the director of Human Rights Watch in South Africa, to discuss the role of music and the current situation in northern Mali.