Haile Selassie's rise to prominence, the defeat of the invading Italian army during World War II and revolution - how some of the momentous events of Ethiopia's past touched the …

New York's Senegalese Unlicensed Vendors

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 May 1998

I thought it was going to be like a paradise on Earth, but it's not... You think about making money too much instead of praying. Why do Murid mystics go …

Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 May 1998

"When someone is sitting there and telling you what happened precisely to them, it hits you." Archbishop Desmond Tutu. Victims were given a voice, perpetrators were given the chance to …

Haratins

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 24 April 1998

The life of Haratin oasis-dwellers in the Mauritanian desert of north western Africa.

Conflict in Northern Ghana

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 2 April 1998

Tensions in northern Ghana between the Dagomba, Nanumba and Konkomba communities.

Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 13 February 1998

A tour of the waterside shanty town of Makoko built on the shores of Lagos where the houses are built on stilts.

Arun Western Makanata

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 February 1998

Eyewitness account of the history of Tanzania in the 20th Century with the series Memories from Elders. Born in 1918, Arun Western Makanata talks about working as a civil servant …

After Zimbabwe Independence

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 28 January 1998

What has happened to the combatants of Zimbabwe's independence? Some believe the government does too much for former fighters. But war veterans showed their sense of grevance in protests sparked …

Ilha Da Mozambique

BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 15 January 1998

A guide to life on a small island off Mozambique, where slaves were traded and people follow a matrilineal line of descent