African Perspective Episodes Available now

Commonwealth Conference in Edinburgh Scotland
Discussion on the prospects for a future in the Commonwealth for Nigeria and Sierra Leone

31st December Women's Movement
What are the aims of this Ghanaian women's group?

Burkina Faso's Thomas Sankara
Profile and assessment of the legacy of former president of Burkina Faso Thomas Sankara

Railways in Kenya - Part Two
Fiona Ledger meets the people trying to put trains back on track

Railways in Kenya - Part One
Meet Kirpal Sandhu Singh, the last man in Kenya to drive a steam train

The Coloured Community of South Africa
Aspects of identity in Cape Town's coloured community in the township of Mitchells Plain

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess - Part Two
How Seyyida Salme met her German husband and her first impressions of Europe

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess - Part One
Seyyida Salme recalls her early life as a Muslim princess born in Zanzibar in 1844

Malaria in Kenya
Why is the disease so difficult to tackle?

Private Lives of Strangers - Part Two
Meet Gladys Hessi who prepares bodies for open caskets ahead of funerals in Ghana