African Perspective

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 · 25 January 2001

n 1968 the mixed heritage residents of District Six on the slopes of Table Mountain in South Africa were forcibly removed and the area was declared a whites only. Thirty …


BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 25 January 2001

Meeting the human rights of prisoners in Uganda's prisons is a struggle.


BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 12 January 2001

A visit to the Namib region of Angola in search of the tribe of nomadic pastoralists, the Himba, whose way of life has - ironically - been preserved by Angola's …


BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 January 2001

Martin Davis on the rising death rate in the city of Blantyre due to AIDS and the effect it's having on the cost of funerals.


BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 8 December 2000

BBC journalist Josephine Hazeley returns to her home country of Sierra Leone to find out how the society and its people are dealing with the aftermath of the gross violation …


BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 4 December 2000

Developing the use of technology and the internet in the Tanzanian capital Dar Es Salaam


BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 19 November 2000

Shifting climatic conditions and a loss of livestock mean that traditional a nomadic lifestyle is no longer possible and the Tuaregs have turned to farming, skills that they are learning …


BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 9 November 2000

The efforts of poor urban communities to raise funds and build their own homes.


BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 November 2000

Riding aboard the Phelophepa train which serves rural areas and provides free screening and affordable healthcare to supplement existing health facilities.


BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 20 October 2000

Why do people smoke cigarettes? Dr Tony Marinho, poet and doctor from Nigeria takes us on a journey through the temptations of cigarettes.