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The Story of Botswana's First Youth Radio Station: Yarona FM | Africa Business Report
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- The Story of Botswana's First Youth Radio Station: Yarona FM | Africa Business Report
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- 9 years ago
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- Botswana's Yarona FM's founder Percy Raditladi speaks to BBC New's Africa Business Report about the rise of the Botswana's first youth radio station. Yarona FM shows the vast potential of young people in Botswana through their radio station, with plans to expand into relatively untapped digital markets.
Listen to Yarona FM here: https://yaronafm.co.bw/radiochannel/listen-live/
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- Debate: Is Africa Re-inventing Democracy?
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- 9 years ago
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- Watch a debate about democracies in Africa hosted by the BBC's Alex Jakana.
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- Analysis: Boko Haram and Baga Satellite Images
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- 9 years ago
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- BBC Hausa Editor Mansur Liman analyses reports that satellite images of Nigerian towns attacked by Boko Haram show widespread destruction and suggest a high death toll.
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- Akwasi Sarpong's Focus on Africa 'front page'
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Akwasi Sarpong outlines the stories featured in Focus on Africa.
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- Focus on Africa: Watch the presenter behind the scenes
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
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- Watch presenter David Amanor as he begins the 15:00 GMT edition of Focus on Africa, on 13 January 2015.
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- African cartoonists produce drawings after Paris killings (BBC Focus on Africa TV)
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- 9 years ago
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- Cartoonists around the world have been reacting with pen and paintbrush to the Paris killings. Some images from African artists: 1 - 2. Talal Nayer (Sudan), 3. Gado (Kenya), 4 - 6. Damien Glez (Burkina Faso - France), 7. Victor Ndula (Kenya), 8. Brandan Reynolds (South Africa)
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- Behind the scenes: Salim Kikeke reports from Pemba
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- 9 years ago
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- Behind the scenes with BBC Africa's Salim Kikeke as he takes a break from recording his report on the importance of cloves for the tiny Indian Ocean island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania.
His full report can be found on Focus on Africa TV and radio, or visit bbcafrica.com to read his online feature.
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- Africa Cup of Nations Results
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- 10 years ago
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- A group of sports journalists discuss the results from the final round of qualifying matches for the 2015 Africa Cup of Nations finals in Equatorial Guinea.
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- How to launch a fashion label in Uganda? | African Dream
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- 10 years ago
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- Definition Africa is a Ugandan fashion label founded by three female entrepreneurs - Nadia Bhegani, Olga Mugyenyi and Nahida Bhegani. As part of the latest series of African Dream, they shared their experiences of being part of a business partnership. They try to work with only local suppliers and use only African raw materials.
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- Africa Beats: VILLY & The Xtreme Volumes, Nigeria
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- 10 years ago
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- Villy - Oliseh John Odili - says Africans have put up with bad government for too long. They should protest more, like people in other parts of the world. Villy is a Nigerian Afro-fusion singer and songwriter, who splits his time between Lagos and Accra. He sings in Igbo, Yoruba, Pidgin and English. His anger at what he sees as complacency inspired Make Me Mad, the song he performs with his group, the Xtreme Volumes, for BBC Africa Beats. Inspired by a variety of artists, his sound reflects rock, soul, hip hop, jazz and African influences. Villy is bucking the digital trend and putting his energies into delivering strong live performances based on good old fashioned musicianship.
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- Songhoy Blues playing at The Kings Head, London
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- 10 years ago
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- Malian rockers Songhoy Blues play their song Al Hassidi Terei at The Kings Head, London, on 12 November 2014
Recorded with a mobile phone.
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- Ugandan singer Desire Luzinda is latest victim of 'revenge porn'
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- 10 years ago
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- They call it Revenge Porn -- the publication of nude pictures of an individual without their consent - and it has become a global issue. In Uganda, naked photos of the musician Desire Luzinda, have gone viral on social media networks and have been published in newspapers. Her ex-boyfriend is alleged to have posted them on Facebook - the post saying "to teach her a lesson". Uganda's Minister for Ethics wants HER arrested, accusing her of engaging in pornography. Focus on Africa's Catherine Byaruhanga spoke to Desire Luzinda and sent this report.
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- Zambians bid farewell to President Sata
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- 10 years ago
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- So the sharp tongue of the man affectionately called 'king Cobra' in Zambia will be heard no more... Michael Sata, Zambia's President for the past 3 years was laid to rest earlier today after being given a state funeral in Heroes Stadium. The leader who came in on a populist vote in 2011 died in a London Hospital a fortnight ago after suffering from a long undisclosed illness. Today he was heralded at home as thousands came to bid him farewell.
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- BBC African Footballer of the Year 2014
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- 10 years ago
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- Sports journalists discuss the players shortlisted for the 2014 BBC African Footballer of the Year award.
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- BBC African Dream: Swaady Martin-Leke, of Yswara tea brand
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- 10 years ago
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- As part of the BBC's African Dream series, which looks at entrepreneurs across the continent, the Ivorian founder of luxury tea brand Yswara discusses the importance of being based in a region where people feel "alive".
Swaady Martin-Leke says she decided to "implant" her luxury brand in South Africa. The businesswoman opened her first shop in Johannesburg. She then decided to aim for Nigeria before turning her attention to the entire continent via digital sales.
Watch her explain the source of her inspiration.
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- The key events behind Blaise Compaore's rise to power
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- 10 years ago
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- Find out why Blaise Compaore is referred to as West Africa's Godfather .
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- State of emergency in Burkina Faso
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- 10 years ago
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- After a day of angry protests across the capital Ouagadougou, the president is reported to have declared a state of emergency. A report still unconfirmed. And there are a few things we still cannot say for sure as the story unfolds. Several government buildings have been burnt including the one housing the state television.Focus on Africa's Lebo Diseko has been looking at today's events.
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- Arab Spring rapper Klay BBJ says Tunisia now worse off
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- 10 years ago
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- Tunisia's 2011 revolution kicked off the Arab Spring. Three years later, however, many young Tunisians feel that nothing has changed.
Millions went to the polls last week in Tunisia's latest free elections, but at the same time, a rap critical of the system has been trending on YouTube, as young hip-hop artist Klay BBJ tunes in to the post-revolution blues blighting many of his peers.
Reporter: Mai Noman
Video journalist: Greg Brosnan
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- Protesters set fire to Burkina Faso parliament
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- 10 years ago
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- Protesters angry at plans to allow Burkina Faso's President Blaise Compaore to extend his 27-year-rule set fire to parliament in the capital.
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- Africa Beats - Lala Njava
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- 10 years ago
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- Lala Njava released her first solo album, Malagasy Blues Song, in 2013 but she has a long career behind her. She comes from a musical family of 15 children and from an early age she performed with her brothers and sisters. It quickly became clear that she was the lead singer, and her voice is astonishing – deep and distinctive. For BBC Africa Beats, she performs with her brothers Pata and Dozzy Njava, and her cousin Christian Ravalison. The sound they make is grounded in Malagasy tradition but also highly original, with a Western rhythm section and strong trance, blues and afrobeats elements. Lala and her three brothers now live in Brussels, but they are still highly concerned by the issues their native land faces, and Lala is donating a portion of the revenues from her CD sales to a tree planting project.
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- AFRICA BEATS - THE GOOD ONES
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- 10 years ago
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- The Good Ones are a four piece band from Rwanda. When lead singer and songwriter Adrien Kazigira decided to form a group, he went looking for “the good ones”, the best musicians he could find. The three others he now plays with are a subsistence farmer like him, a driver and a teacher. In Rwanda they mostly play at weekends at weddings and funerals.
With just a guitar, some unusual percussion and harmonizing voices, they create a compelling sound which is traditional and yet fresh. ‘Eudia’ which they perform for BBC Africa Beats, is a love song written by Adrien for his wife after her death.
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- FIGHTING THE EBOLA STIGMA
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- 10 years ago
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- With cases of Ebola starting to travel outside of Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea - the outbreak is gaining more and more attention on social media. Well one campaign started by Sierra Leonean blogger Hannah Foullah is getting a lot of attention in her country. She wanted to end the prejudice she feels that Sierra Leoneans at home and abroad have been facing because of Ebola. She asked people to send her photos of themselves via Facebook. She's put slogans on them, affirming what Hannah feels is a strong positive identity.
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- My name is Dauda Fulla and I'm a Ebola survivor
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- 10 years ago
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What about the survivors? How are they coping? 24 year old Dauda Fulla spoke to the BBC from Sierra Leone. He contracted the disease in August from his father - who went on to die. Although Dauda survived - life for him is now a daily struggle.
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- Legendary Ethiopian jazz musician Mulatu Astake
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- 10 years ago
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We meet the Godfather of Ethio-jazz music and the message he carries in his songs. Some of you might be familiar with that sound. If not, Let me introduce you to Mulatu Astake, the Godfather of Ethio-jazz. Trained in London, New York and Boston, he fuses jazz and latin sounds with traditional Ethiopian music. And it's still as relevant today as it was when he first began, over four decades ago. He stopped by our studios recently and I asked him about his musical journey.
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- Professor Ali Mazrui in his own words
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- 10 years ago
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He was ranked among the world's top 100 public intellectuals. A leading pan-Africanist and influential political writer, professor Ali Mazrui, has died in the United States, aged 81. The renowned Kenyan scholar published many books and articles on African politics, the impact of political Islam and North-South relations. He advocated an ideology of African liberalism and was critical of foreign exploitation of Africa's resources and people. Let's listen to him speaking on the BBC in 1979 delivering a series of radio lectures on -- "The African Condition".
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- Several people arrested in Mozambique's Nampula city after supporters of rival parties clash.
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- 10 years ago
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In Mozambique now where campaigning has ended in a generally calm and festive environment, except in Nampula city in the north. Day-long clashes erupted between supporters of Mozambique's ruling Frelimo and opposition party Renamo. Police was forced to use tear gas to disperse both sides. Reports say more than 20 people have been injured, several others have been arrested. Focus on Africa's Emmanuel Igunza reports.
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- Africa Beats - Omawumi Megbele
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- 10 years ago
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Omawumi Megbele is a Nigerian singer-songwriter and actress with a great voice and oodles of charm and humour. She gained attention as the 2007 runner-up on the reality TV show West Africa Idols and has subsequently won multiple awards in Nigeria. Her debut single "In the Music" was a hit, and she has since released two albums, Wonderwoman and The Lasso of Truth. "If You Ask Me", the song she performs for Africa Beats, tackles the sensitive subjects of incest and child abuse. Omawumi wrote it after she witnessed a shocking exchange between a father and daughter. The father was telling his girl off for going out with boys, to which she retorted something along the lines of "and who was it who slept with me first?" The song is produced by Cobhams Asuquo, one of the most talented a...
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- BBC Africa's Anne Soy - The challenges of Ebola
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- 10 years ago
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- BBC Africa's health correspondent Anne Soy takes a look at the scale of the Ebola challenges and the speed of the response.
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- Africa Beats - Songhoy Blues
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- 10 years ago
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- When Islamist militants captured Timbuktu and banned secular music, the members of Songhoy Blues felt they had no choice but to leave their homes in the north and head south to the Malian capital, Bamako. They were traumatised by having to leave behind loved ones, but they also had some luck. British musician Damon Albarn and his Africa Express collective went to Mali in a gesture of solidarity, and Songhoy Blues was one of the bands they recorded for their Maison des Jeunes album. As a result, the desert band's international career has taken off and they have played at several European festivals.
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- BBC World News - Focus on Africa
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Almaz's story: The illustrations which bring to life the harrowing tale of a young Ethiopian domestic worker abused by her employers in Saudi Arabia. Journalist Benjamin Dix and artist Lindsay Pollock speak to BBC Africa's Sophie Ikenye about how comic books can be used to tell powerful stories.
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- HardTalk: Professor Peter Piot on the Ebola crisis
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- 10 years ago
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- The man who first identified the Ebola virus back in the 70s, Professor Peter Piot, has told the BBC that it took 1000 Africans to die and two Americans to be repatriated before a public health emergency was declared.
In an interview with the TV programme HARDtalk which will be broadcast on Friday, he also commented on the first diagnosis of a case outside Africa.
"This is going to happen again. That’s why it’s so vital that in West Africa we bring this epidemic under control. Because otherwise it will be a continuous source of infection for any other country in the world," he said.
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- Abused and unpaid - story of an Ethiopian servant in Saudi Arabia
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- 10 years ago
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Now, for all the news and stories we cover here on BBC Africa there are voices we struggle to reach. People who aren't able to speak to us, those who are fearful of speaking to journalists, or those who simply want to forget. Shedding light on some of our darkest moments can be uncomfortable. One journalist, Benjamin Dix has started to use animation to give a voice to those who would otherwise not speak out. Together with artist Lindsay Pollock, he created this animation about Almaz, a young girl who left Ethiopia to travel to work in Saudi Arabia and was used as a domestic slave.
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- Tumi Molekane, South Africa's poetic MC performs Signs for BBC Africa Beats
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- 10 years ago
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What do you do if you spot a cockroach in your kitchen? Stamp on it? Reach for insecticide? If you are Tumi Molekane, one of South Africa's most lyrically gifted rappers, you take a different approach. You observe it and use it to trigger a thought process about random events, and how we explain them away. The outcome leads to collaborating with guitarist Tiago Correia Paulo from Mozambique and you end up with a beautiful song called Signs.
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- Africa Beats: Aziza Brahim performs refugee blues Lagi
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- 10 years ago
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Africa Beats seeks out the most innovative and interesting up and coming musicians from the continent, and Aziza Brahim was chosen because of her beautiful fusing of traditional Saharawi vocal style.
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- Africa Beats: M.anifest back in 'inspirational' Ghana - BBC Africa
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Ghanaian rapper M.anifest kicks off new season of BBC Africa Beats with a medley of hits.
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- Young African women in the diaspora on their hopes and fears
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- 10 years ago
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- 12 August is International Youth Day. Three young women in the diaspora tell BBC Africa about their hopes and fears for their future and for their family’s country of origin. Stephanie, 19, is from Nigeria. Ferhiyo, 19, was born in Denmark and is of Somali descent. Christiana, 20, was born in the UK and is of Nigerian heritage.
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- Who stood out at Africa Fashion Week? | Sincerely Oghosa
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- 10 years ago
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- British-Nigerian YouTube creator Oghosa Ovienrioba speaks about designers she was impressed with at Africa Fashion Week London. Also known on YouTube as creator Sincerely Oghosa, Oghosa shares her thoughts on the designers showcasing at Africa Fashion Week in London.
Check out her YouTube channel here: https://www.youtube.com/c/sincerelyoghosa
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- Vlogger LizLizLive reviews Africa Fashion Week London
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- Fashion vlogger LizLizLive gives gives her verdict on Africa Fashion Week London 2014 to BBC Africa.
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- BBC Africa reporter ends report from Glasgow Commonwealth Games in true Scottish style
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- BBC's Peter Musembi finishes his report for Focus On Africa TV with a surprising Scottish twist...Wait till 0"25 for the "reveal".
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- Focus on Africa editor Stephane Mayoux and Newsday host Bilkisu Labaran discuss France v Nigeria.
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- What is Nigeria's image abroad?
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- We are hosting a discussion on how Nigeria's image is perceived across the world as part of our monthly BBC Africa debate.
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- Why Nigeria has not defeated Boko Haram
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- 10 years ago
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- Exactly a year after Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan declared a "state of emergency" in north-eastern Nigeria, it seems to have had little effect in curbing the Islamist insurgency. Focus on Africa's Alex Jakana has more.
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- Is the Nigerian government powerless? | BBC Focus on Africa
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- 10 years ago
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- 19 people have been killed following a bomb blast in the Nigeria's Capital Abuja. It's the second such incident in the city in just over two weeks. Leaving many to wonder why the Nigerian government seems so powerless. BBC Focus on Africa speaks to Nigerian Political Commentator Kayode Ogundamisi about president Goodluck Jonathan, Nigeria's militart and Boko Haram.
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- Soyinka calls on the President to show leadership
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- 10 years ago
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- The Nigerian government has come under a great deal of criticism over it's handling of the Boko Haram menace. Nobel Prize winner Professor Wole Soyinka is the country's foremost writer and social commentator. Mr Soyinka discusses why the government appears helpless
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- Abducted Nigerian girls still missing
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- 10 years ago
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- Security forces in Borno State in Nigeria are searching for 100 teenage girls abducted by suspected members of the Islamist militant group Boko Haram.
The abductions come a day after 71 people were killed in two explosions at a bus station in the capital Abuja.
Will Ross reports
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- BBC Africa/Chinese Freedom Discussion
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- 10 years ago
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- As part of our #Freedom2014 season, BBC Africa and BBC Chinese Service will jointly host a Google hangout debate today (Wednesday) 12 March. Students from China (based in the US and the UK) and young people from Africa (based in China and Africa) will talk about what freedom means to them: Is there a universal definition of freedom? What freedom looks like in China and why some Africans look up to Beijing as a different model of national development? The programme starts after 25 seconds.
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- How to improve Nigeria's educational system
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- 10 years ago
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- It will take least 70 years for all children in Africa to have access to primary school education according to a report from UNESCO.
Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the worst affected regions-- with Nigeria having the highest number of children without a primary school place. Kenya and Burkina Faso are also listed amongst the top ten .
Girls are still more likely to miss out on school than boys and this is more prevalent among disadvantaged, rural families.
We spoke to a teacher in the Nigerian city of Lagos and here is what she thinks needs to be done to improve the educational system on the continent.
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- Champion of Africa: Highlights of Komla Dumor's brilliant career
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- 10 years ago
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- Tributes have been paid to BBC TV presenter Komla Dumor, who died suddenly at his home in London at the age of 41.
Ghana-born Dumor was a presenter for BBC World News and its Focus on Africa programme - and had a humorous and charismatic presenting style.
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- The family of Rwanda's former spy chief Paul Karegeya react to his death
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
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- The United States has strongly condemned the killing in South Africa of the former Rwandan spy chief Paul Karegeya. His nephew, David Batenga, is now in Johannesburg. He described to the BBC's Nomsa Maseko how he felt when he arrived on the crime scene.
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- 2013 - the best of Focus on Africa
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- 10 years ago
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- A special edition of Focus on Africa TV - bringing you some of the best of our reported stories from 2013. Part two