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.