African Perspective
British Broadcasting Corporation
Documentaries on all aspects of Africa - from politics to history, from music to conflict.
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BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 24 September 2011
The story of one of Africa's greatest travellers from the 14th Century, Ibn Battuta. He was a great chronicler of his time and left the first written account of one …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 17 September 2011
In Senegal, there's been a boom in informal gold mining in recent years. The programme visits a remote village in the south-east of Senegal to explore what life is like …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 20 August 2011
For over 20 years Uganda was terrorized by the Lord's Resistance Army. Thousands of children were forced to become child soldiers. Now the LRA has gone, can they come to …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 13 August 2011
2/2 programmes about the 100 year old, 600-mile railway line in East Africa from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria. Ayisha Yahya travels on the existing creaking line and asks …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 6 August 2011
100 years ago a 600-mile railway line was completed in East Africa from the Indian Ocean to Lake Victoria. It was an engineering miracle, but its financial and human cost …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 30 July 2011
10 million people face famine in the Horn of Africa which is in the grip of the worst drought in decades. A look at how the UN World Food Programme …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 23 July 2011
Next year London hosts the Olympic Games. For years there have been dreams of an African city one day doing the same. Steve Vickers travels to Durban to find out …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 9 July 2011
An exploration of how Africa's newest country, South Sudan is going to feed its people. It imports more than 80% of its food from neighbours. But it has lots of …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 9 July 2011
An exploration of how Africa's newest country, South Sudan is going to feed its people. It imports more than 80% of its food from neighbours. But it has lots of …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 2 July 2011
A look at why tens of thousands of Sahrawi people are still in refugee camps, 20 years after they thought the would be returning to their homeland across the border, …