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 · 5 October 2000
The infectious eye disease trachoma, which affects 500 million people and causes blindness. It is preventable and treatable.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 29 September 2000
History of the meeting of cultures in South Africa and Mozambique.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 22 September 2000
MTV was established in 1999, the last country on the continent to get TV. What's happened in the year since television has come to Malawi?
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 7 September 2000
Exploration of the River Niger from Mopte to Timbuktu.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 6 September 2000
A guided tour and history of Fort Hare, a South African University that counts among its alumni prominent South Africans Nelson Mandela and Oliver Tambo, and a number of African …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 21 August 2000
"It's not a circumcision, it's a mutilation... it is a harmful traditional practice." Debate about circumcision in Mali which has one of the highest FGM rates - an estimated 80% …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 16 July 2000
Profile of Nigerian acting icons and married couple, Olu Jacobs and Joke Silva.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 7 July 2000
Behind the scenes at Radio Voice of the Handicapped (VOHM) in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 30 June 2000
The solar-powered rural community radio station Radio Douentza, based in Mali.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 9 June 2000
The conflict between two pastoralist groups in northern Kenya around the town of Isiolo - and attempts at peace.