African Perspective Episodes Episode guide
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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?
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Growing Old in Africa - Part One
Africa's younger generations are moving away from traditional family care
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Hope and Light Institute
The music school that teaches visually impaired girls in Cairo
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Being 'Coloured' in South Africa
Writers Lueen Conning Ndlovu and EKM Dido talk about identity during and after Apartheid
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The Stock Exchange in Tanzania
Getting the new stock exchange in Twiga House up and running
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Breast Cancer in Africa
Meet the Kenyan women raising awareness of a disease that gets little attention in Africa
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On the Ground - Liberia
Special edition from Liberia. Presenter: Fiona Ledger.
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Miners and Mining in Lesotho
The unemployed former miners that are no longer able to work in South Africa
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Liberian Beachside Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ
Fiona Ledger visits the home of Jemima and Joseph Tear 15 miles from Monrovia
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Ethiopian Circus
What happened when some street children asked a teacher to show them how to juggle
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Somalian Refugees
Life as one of the 250,000 Somali people in eight refugee camps in Ethiopia
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Sierra Leone
Rebuilding Sierra Leone after return to power of elected president Ahmad Tejan Kabbah
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20th Century Ethiopia
From Haile Selassie's rise to prominence to Ethiopia's civil war
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Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
"When someone is sitting there, telling you what happened precisely to them, it hits you"
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New York's Senegalese Unlicensed Vendors
Why do Murid mystics go to New York in such numbers?
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Haratins
The life of Haratin oasis-dwellers in the Mauritanian desert of north western Africa
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Conflict in Northern Ghana
Tensions in northern Ghana between the Dagomba, Nanumba and Konkomba communities
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Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria
A tour of the waterside shanty town of Makoko built on the shores of Lagos
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Arun Western Makanata
The transition from colonial rule to independence and pan-Africanism in Tanzania
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After Zimbabwe Independence
What has happened to the combatants of Zimbabwe's independence?
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Ilha Da Mozambique
On a small island off Mozambique people follow a matrilineal line of descent
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Weddings in Northern Nigeria
A day-by-day guide to a traditional four-day Nigerian Muslim Hausa wedding
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Trokosi Women of Ghana
The girls given in slavery to religious shrines to atone for offences committed by others
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Chief Darlington Raphael Capote Wacka Singulu
Eyewitness account of the history of Malawi in the 20th Century
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Journey to Mali - Part Two
Music, history and culture - what makes Mali special among African nations?
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Journey to Mali - Part One
Music, history and culture - what makes Mali special among African nations?
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Sudan Civil War
The ferocious and costly SPLA battles in Sudan
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Growing Crime in Accra
What are the reasons for increased crime among Ghana's young people?
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Return to Rwanda
The return of a million Rwandan people after exile in Tanzania
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Peace in Mozambique
What five years of peace and rain have meant for people in Mozambique
