African Perspective Episodes Episode guide
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Voices in Time - Biafra
A compilation of reports, interviews and speeches on the Biafran War from the archives
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Eritrea
The development challenges facing Eritrea a year after breaking away from Ethiopia
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Right Wing South Africans
Right wing white South Africans anticipate conflict after referendum on democratic reform
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Equatorial Guinea
Anthony Goldman looks at one of Africa's most isolated and impoverished nations
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Rhodesian Rhythms
A look back to the township jazz music of the 1950s
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West Goes East - Part Four - Zanzibar
Zanzibar through the eyes of Cameroonian journalist Veronique Edwards
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West Goes East - Part Three - Tanzania
Tanzania through the eyes of Cameroonian journalist Veronique Edwards
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West Goes East - Part Two - Kenya to Uganda
Uganda through the eyes of West African journalist Veronique Edwards
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West Goes East - Part One - Kenya
Impressions of Kenya through the eyes of Cameroonian journalist Veronique Edwards
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Mozambique under President Joaquim Chissano
Emerging from civil war and developing a relationship with South Africa
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Jack Mapanje
Interview with Malawian writer Jack Mapanje as he takes up a fellowship at York University
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The Nile
Is there enough water in the Nile to meet Egypt's growing needs?
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Voices From the New World
A history of Trinidad from the descendants of Africans to the island's Indian community
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New Life, New South Africa
Alice and Ben talk about their thoughts of the future as they prepare for their first baby
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What it is to be Rich, Black and South African
Powerful and prosperous black South Africans including Richard Maponya
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Namibia Independence
Terry Benson looks at Namibia's first year of independence under Sam Nujoma
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Mogadishu
Ten months after the fall of dictator Siad Barre and 21 years of his regime
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African Education
What can governments afford and should parents pay for books and equipment?
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Cruel to be Kind
How Zimbabweans are coming to terms with the harsh effects of economic reform
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Uganda's Resistance Committees
"A system of participatory democracy" originally founded by the National Resistance Army
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Living with AIDS - Part Three
In the grip of an HIV/AIDS, the Kagera Region of Tanzania has 50,000 orphans
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Living with AIDS - Part Two
People across Africa talk openly about coming to terms with being HIV+ or having AIDS
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Living with AIDS - Part One
What are those at the front line in South Africa doing to tackle HIV/AIDs?
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Against The Tide - Part Five, Seretse Khama
The first President of Botswana, Seretse Khama, and his struggle to marry Ruth Williams
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Against the Tide - Part Four, Ghana
Has the NAM outlived its usefulness as a buffer against superpower domination?
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Against the Tide - Part Three, Friday Mavuso
"The damage caused by Apartheid... We disabled people talk about double discrimination"
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Against The Tide - Part Two, Kwame Nkrumah
Life in exile of former Ghanaian head as described in letters to his assistant June Milne
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Against The Tide - Part One, Kwame Nkrumah
Life in exile of former Ghanaian head as described in letters to his assistant June Milne
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Future of Afrikaans in South Africa
A former language of oppression, what place does Afrikaans have in the new South Africa?
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Marriage Between Different Cultures, Tribes or Countries in Africa
How people meet, what families think, the similarities and differences between cultures