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, …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 28 May 2011
A tribute to Joe Mogotsi, the lead singer of South Africa's Manhattan Brothers, who died on 19 May 2011. The Manhattan Brothers were superstars in South Africa's musical golden age …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 21 May 2011
An examination of the challenges people in Ivory Coast face as they try to rebuild their lives now that the battle for the presidency is finally over. John James returns …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 23 April 2011
A look at a remarkable musical collaboration, the Sukiyaki Allstars, that's bringing Africa and Asia closer together and shows that culturally there's more in common than it might seem. The …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 16 April 2011
An exploration into whether it's physically and mentally possible to smash the next great sporting barrier and run the marathon in under two hours. Reporter Chris Dennis investigates, travelling to …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 26 March 2011
A studio discussion on the forthcoming Nigerian elections. What is the mood in the country and what impact the elections will have? With Oxford University lecturer Abdul Raufu Mustapha and …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 12 March 2011
In 2010 Senegal president Abdoulaye Wade offered 200 Haitian students places to study in Senegal as a gesture of 'black solidarity'. This programme speaks to two of the students who …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 12 March 2011
Former ANC politician Hilda Ndude remembers her important role behind the scenes of Nelson Mandela's historic walk to freedom on the eleventh of February 1990.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 March 2011
The problems for the young girls who live in rural Tanzanian wooden temporary huts, known as ghettos, in order to be close to school. At night drunk men often try …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 26 February 2011
A report from Northern Bahr el Ghazal in Southern Sudan as it prepares for independence. Martin Plaut talks to people there about the economy and cultures of both the Dinka …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 29 January 2011
A report from Eastleigh, the Somali district in the heart of the Kenyan capital Nairobi. What is life like for the residents of 'Little Mogadishu'? For some, it's a shopper's …