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 · 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 …