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 · 3 October 1998
Africa's younger generations are moving away from traditional family care. Africans have respected their elders and a large extended family could guarantee support and respect for the elderly. But Africa's …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 26 September 1998
The music school that teaches visually impaired girls in Cairo via listening and reading music via Braille.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 18 September 1998
Writers Lueen Conning Ndlovu and EKM Dido were categorised as 'coloured' undered South Africa's Apartheid regime. They talk about identity during that time - and after Apartheid.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 24 July 1998
The new stock exchange in Twiga House, Dar es Salaam only traded for one hour a week on Wednesdays when it was first launched.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 18 July 1998
The rise of breast cancer in the developing world. Meet the Kenyan women raising awareness of a disease that gets little attention in Africa.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 10 July 1998
Liberian local reporters Olive Thomas and Vinnie Rogers work for Star Radio and their stories reflect the effect of seven years of civil war. Olive reports on the poor state …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 26 June 1998
How are unemployed former miners from Lesotho doing now that they are no longer able to work in South Africa?
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 13 June 1998
Fiona Ledger visits the home of Jemima and Joseph Tear who live near the radio station just outside Monrovia where Charles Taylor made his first broadcast before taking power.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 11 June 1998
In 1991 a group of street children persuaded a French Canadian teacher to show them to juggle and Circus Ethiopia was born. The performances look to the Ethiopian traditions of …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 June 1998
Life as one of the 250,000 Somali people in eight refugee camps in Ethiopia.