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 · 17 October 1992
An examination of African-Americans represented in political life such as Alan Keyes, and in the public eye. The realities and legacy of division and segregation in the US's southern states.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 10 October 1992
Background to the LA riots which began on 29 April, 1992. The riots were triggered by the aquittal of four white police officers accused of beating Rodney King, against a …
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 2 October 1992
An estimated 20 million Africans were transported across the Atlantic Ocean against their will - which condemned them and their descendants to the margins of a newly-created white society.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 25 September 1992
The Lemba tribe, from South Africa and Zimbabwe, and its supposed ties to Israel and a distant Jewish ancestry.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 20 September 1992
The eventful months in Malawi, Dr Hastings Banda's repressive rule, human rights abuses, and the subsequent anti-government protests and block of humanitarian aid.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 10 September 1992
"You're supposed to maintain your cool." Behind the scenes in the world of diplomacy at the High Commissions for Nigeria - with Norma Dove-Edwin - and Lesotho in London.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 28 August 1992
The future of the United Nations in a world increasingly divided by regional conflict. Can it live up to the expectations of victims of war?
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 21 August 1992
The election process in Nigeria. David Bamford talks to politicians and voters and their hopes and fears for the future after nine years of military rule.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 14 August 1992
SADCC meeting in Windhoek, Namibia, to talk about regional co-operation on drought and food security in southern Africa.
BBC: British Broadcasting Corporation · 11 July 1992
The development of South African Jazz from the 1950s to 1990s. Why did it catch on in Cape Town?