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 · 21 May 2000
When the Limpopo river flooded in February 2000 the city of Xai-Xai was cut off from the capital Maputo and the city moved temporarily to higher ground.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 21 May 2000
Prisoners are given training to handle, breed and raise birds such as grey parrots, cockatiels and love birds at Pollsmoor prison in South Africa. The rehabilitation bird-rearing project gives inmates …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 May 2000
Thousands of Burundians have crossed the border to escape civil war and make new lives in the refugee camps of Western Tanzania. There are currently over 250,000 Burundians living there. …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 28 April 2000
How the war is affecting people in small towns and villages such as Bugama and Kiseru.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 14 April 2000
How people are affected by the increasing poverty in Zimbabwe.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 7 April 2000
A portrait of Algerians' long history of living in France
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 2 April 2000
Fatima Parker describes her childhood, her love of languages - she speaks eight - and why she keeps returning to her homeland, Algeria.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 February 2000
Profile of chief Mrs Ekei Essien Oku who writes about the impact of the British missionaries who colonised Calabar, Nigeria in the 19th Century.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 29 January 2000
The dreams, hopes and aspirations of the sapphire diggers at the Ilakaka sapphire mine in Madagascar.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 22 January 2000
An exploration into the life of Tippu Tip, a Swahili-Zanzibari trader, notorious slaver, plantation owner and governor.