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African Perspective Episodes

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    Growing Old in Africa - Part Two

    What happens to the elderly in rural areas when younger people have gone to the cities?

  2. Growing Old in Africa - Part One

    Africa's younger generations are moving away from traditional family care

  3. Hope and Light Institute

    The music school that teaches visually impaired girls in Cairo

  4. Being 'Coloured' in South Africa

    Writers Lueen Conning Ndlovu and EKM Dido talk about identity during and after Apartheid

  5. The Stock Exchange in Tanzania

    Getting the new stock exchange in Twiga House up and running

  6. Breast Cancer in Africa

    Meet the Kenyan women raising awareness of a disease that gets little attention in Africa

  7. On the Ground - Liberia

    Special edition from Liberia. Presenter: Fiona Ledger.

  8. Miners and Mining in Lesotho

    The unemployed former miners that are no longer able to work in South Africa

  9. Liberian Beachside 蜜芽传媒

    Fiona Ledger visits the home of Jemima and Joseph Tear 15 miles from Monrovia

  10. Ethiopian Circus

    What happened when some street children asked a teacher to show them how to juggle

  11. Somalian Refugees

    Life as one of the 250,000 Somali people in eight refugee camps in Ethiopia

  12. Sierra Leone

    Rebuilding Sierra Leone after return to power of elected president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah

  13. 20th Century Ethiopia

    From Haile Selassie's rise to prominence to Ethiopia's civil war

  14. Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa

    "When someone is sitting there, telling you what happened precisely to them, it hits you"

  15. New York's Senegalese Unlicensed Vendors

    Why do Murid mystics go to New York in such numbers?

  16. Haratins

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

  17. Conflict in Northern Ghana

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

  18. Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria

    A tour of the waterside shanty town of Makoko built on the shores of Lagos

  19. Arun Western Makanata

    The transition from colonial rule to independence and pan-Africanism in Tanzania

  20. After Zimbabwe Independence

    What has happened to the combatants of Zimbabwe's independence?

  21. Ilha Da Mozambique

    On a small island off Mozambique people follow a matrilineal line of descent

  22. Weddings in Northern Nigeria

    A day-by-day guide to a traditional four-day Nigerian Muslim Hausa wedding

  23. Trokosi Women of Ghana

    The girls given in slavery to religious shrines to atone for offences committed by others

  24. Chief Darlington Raphael Capote Wacka Singulu

    Eyewitness account of the history of Malawi in the 20th Century

  25. Journey to Mali - Part Two

    Music, history and culture - what makes Mali special among African nations?

  26. Journey to Mali - Part One

    Music, history and culture - what makes Mali special among African nations?

  27. Sudan Civil War

    The ferocious and costly SPLA battles in Sudan

  28. Growing Crime in Accra

    What are the reasons for increased crime among Ghana's young people?

  29. Return to Rwanda

    The return of a million Rwandan people after exile in Tanzania

  30. Peace in Mozambique

    What five years of peace and rain have meant for people in Mozambique

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