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 · 8 February 1993
African veterans recall guarding Egypt, the North African campaigns of Tobruk and El Alamein, and invading Italy, fighting with the free French, and being a prisoner of war, including an …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 7 February 1993
During World War II, a million Africans served on one side or the other. Why did men from Sierra Leone, Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Tanzania, Sudan and other countries serve in …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 5 February 1993
Abram was Peter the Great's godson - an Ethiopian in 18th Century Russia who rose to become a general in the Russian imperial army.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 30 January 1993
The increase in popularity for wearing the veil or hijab in Egypt and what it says about the country.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 14 January 1993
Politics in Seychelles including the establishment of the creole language as the islands' official language and the move towards a new constitution for the Indian Ocean Nations.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 10 January 1993
Constitutional crisis in Lesotho - what next for King Moshoeshoe II and his son Letsie III?
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 22 December 1992
Retrospective highlights of the last twelve months of African Perspective.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 6 November 1992
The lives and daily experiences of Zimbabwean women whose work involves various forms of transport.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 23 October 1992
Bloody confrontation in Monrovia, three years after civil war.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 22 October 1992
All aspects of diamond mining in South Africa: security, sorting and extraction at the Venetia Diamond Mine, the country's largest producer of diamonds.