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Racism for Sale
In February 2020 a shocking video began to circulate on Chinese social media. A group of African children are being instructed, by a voice off-camera, to chant phrases in Chinese. The kids repeat the words with smiles and enthusiasm - but they don't understand that what they're being told to say is ''I am a black monster and my IQ is low''. The clip ignited outrage in China and beyond. But no one ever answered the crucial questions: Why was this filmed? Where was it shot? Who made it? These questions send 大象传媒 Africa Eye reporters Runako Celina and Henry Mhango on a journey into a Chinese video-making industry that exploits vulnerable children across the continent.
Kush: Into the Mad World
Kush - a cheap, new, illegal drug high is taking the youth of Sierra Leone to a dark place. Young people driven mad. Young people killing themselves. Young people harming themselves and others. Psychiatric wards are filling up with Kush cases and police are battling to win the war against the drug. With kush use spreading like wildfire, with ever-younger users being exposed to it, Africa Eye reporter, Tyson Conteh, investigates the drug and asks whether Sierra Leone can stop the march of this dangerously addictive high?
Kenya's Killer Roads
Have the network of roads which criss-cross Kenya become death traps? Between 2020 and 2021 Kenyan road deaths rose more than 20 per cent. Last year, more than 4500 were killed and over 16,000 injured. The Kenyan Government says drunk driving, overloading, and speeding are among the top causes of the carnage. But is corruption also a factor? Journalist Richard Chacha, himself paralysed in a road accident ten years ago, joins Africa Eye to expose rouge driving school employees who, for a fee, fix it for rookie drivers to get behind the wheel without ever having to take a driving test. Africa Eye also reveals how brokers take cash to beat the vehicle safety testing system, enabling taxis fit for the scrap heap to be driven on Kenya's roads... and carry passengers.
Forced to Beg: Tanzania's Trafficked Kids
Impoverished families in Tanzania are being tricked into giving up their disabled children by human traffickers. Promised a better life, the children are instead smuggled into Kenya and forced to beg, often for years. Africa Eye goes undercover to expose the traffickers trading in human misery and helps one young victim escape his captors.
The Bandit Warlords of Zamfara
In north western Nigeria ultra-violent bandit hangs raid villages,
Seychelles, Heroin and Me
A former drug user gives 大象传媒 Africa Eye exclusive access to his struggling community in county's many ghettos - as he explores why Seychelles has the biggest heroin problem in the world.
Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua: Episode 3
TB Joshua's miracles have gained him global recognition, and hundreds of foreigners visit his church in Lagos every week, seeking healing. But when TB Joshua's church guesthouse collapses, killing 116, people start to ask questions. And as his disciples try to escape his church, TB Joshua does all he can to ensure his darkest secrets stay hidden.
Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua: Episode 2
Nigerian superpastor TB Joshua explodes onto the global stage with Emmanuel TV, one of the world's most subscribed Christian channels. Behind closed doors in his church in Lagos, life is hard for his teenage 'disciples'; they have dedicated their life to him and must obey his every command. His own daughter confronts him about alleged abuse and violence and pays a heavy price.
Disciples: The Cult of TB Joshua
Two young women in Britain watch a VHS tape that will change the course of their lives forever: a Nigerian preacher can apparently heal the sick, cure cancer and AIDS. They decide to visit his church in Lagos to meet him. Joshua invites the teenagers to become his disciples, joining dozens of other young people who live on the church premises and do his every bidding. But life as a disciple isn't what they imagined.
