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African Perspective Episodes

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    Freetown's Reconstruction

    Rebuilding a shattered capital city a year on from the end of Sierra Leone's brutal war

  2. Cape Coast, Ghana

    A tour of the town of Cape Coast, Ghana including the supposedly haunted Fort William

  3. Scars of Apartheid - Colour Classification

    Born black to conservative white parents, Sandra Laing on her relationship with her family

  4. Scars of Apartheid - White Guilt

    Pieter explains how it is to be white in South Africa in the aftermath of Apartheid

  5. Scars of Apartheid - Soweto

    Mother and son Mary and Ephraim recall the day Ephraim took part in the demonstration

  6. Like Mother Like Daughter - Part Two

    Nigerian writers Omowunmi and Mabel Segun talk about each other's achievements

  7. Like Father Like Son - Part One

    Uganda's former Minister of Justice Godfrey Roulay and his son Joel in discussion

  8. Like Mother Like Daughter - Part One

    The story of an African student leaving home to attend Harvard University

  9. The Pyramids of Sudan

    Meroitic empire's pyramids served as tombs for the kings and queens of Napata and Meroe

  10. Angolan Refugees in Zambia

    Refugees explain their experiences of the Angolan civil war

  11. The African Cup of Nations in Mali

    What has it taken to put on a huge sporting event in one of the world's poorest countries?

  12. Shaba Concerts

    The 1900s tradition of the concert party or variety show continues in modern Ghana

  13. South African AIDS Epidemic

    In 2001 five million South Africans were living with HIV

  14. In the Black - Part Four

    Building a thriving businesses in Ghana

  15. In the Black - Part Three

    How Somali business people have created and expanded highly successful companies

  16. In the Black - Part Two

    How the emergence of a black middle class can help business in South Africa

  17. In the Black - Part One

    Microfinance and small businesses in Kenya

  18. The United States - Post 9/11

    Africans living in the US assess the changing social landscape post 9/11

  19. Mombasa, Kenya

    Robin White takes a tour of the Kenyan port city of Mombasa

  20. Islam in Mali

    "Politics and religion cannot make a good soup"

  21. Zimbabwe - The Struggle Within the Struggle

    Former combatants in Zimbabwe's war of independence speak about the political crisis

  22. Going Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ to Table Mountain

    Forcibly removed in 1968, the former residents of District Six return

  23. Uganda Prisons

    Meeting the human rights of prisoners in Uganda's prisons is a struggle

  24. The Namib and Himba

    In search of the Himba, whose way of life has - ironically been preserved by Angola's war

  25. Death in Malawi

    The rising death rate in due to AIDS and the effect it's having on the cost of funerals

  26. International Human Rights Day

    How Sierra Leone is dealing with the civil war's human rights abuses

  27. Tanzania Internet

    Developing the use of technology and the internet in the Tanzanian capital Dar Es Salaam

  28. Mali Tuaregs

    Climatic conditions and a loss of livestock mean that Tuareg people have turned to farming

  29. South Africa's Poor Urbanites

    The efforts of poor urban communities to raise funds and build their own homes

  30. South Africa Healthcare Train

    Riding aboard the Phelophepa train which serves rural areas and provides free screening

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