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South Africa's coloured community: 'Still marginalised after apartheid' - BBC Africa

Title: South Africa's coloured community: 'Still marginalised after apartheid' - BBC Africa
Runtime: 10:28
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: South Africa’s coloured community, the official term for mixed-race people in the country, were alienated during the country’s apartheid regime.

Many in the community now feel that the current democracy also marginalises them – that they “aren’t black enough”.

Violent protests recently rocked coloured communities across South Africa.

Fed up with gangs, drugs and unemployment, residents took their frustration to the streets.

The BBC’s Vauldi Carelse went to find out what’s at the heart of this anger.

Video journalist: Christian Parkinson

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'I lost blood during my pregnancy because of depression' | BBC Africa #TalkitOut

Title: 'I lost blood during my pregnancy because of depression' | BBC Africa #TalkitOut
Runtime: 4:14
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Six months into her pregnancy, Linda Nderitu experienced blood loss caused by perinatal depression. Now she’s speaking out about the mental illness, with the hope of helping other women who are facing the same struggle.

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'I am a victim of Kenya's fake drugs crisis' | BBC Africa Documentary

Title: 'I am a victim of Kenya's fake drugs crisis' | BBC Africa Documentary
Runtime: 14:32
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The worldwide trade in fake drugs is now a 30 billion dollar industry according to WHO, a figure that has nearly tripled in the last five years. In Kenya the Pharmaceutical Society of Kenya estimates that 30% of all medicines sold are counterfeit, or substandard with anti-malaria and antibiotics being the most commonly falsified drugs.

BBC’s Life Clinic explores how counterfeit drugs are making their way into the Kenyan market with potentially fatal consequences. David Wafula investigates.

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Fake Me: Living for Likes #TheSheWord - BBC Africa documentary

Title: Fake Me: Living for Likes #TheSheWord - BBC Africa documentary
Runtime: 22:25
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Fake or real, truth or lie, how can you tell the difference? Especially in an age where internet use is booming in Africa - up an incredible 20% in the last year alone.

With so many of us out there on social media trying to put our best face forward, the bar seems to be getting higher and higher to look good, have successful work and love lives. But in our lust for likes, are we forgetting who we really are? And are we losing a grip on reality?

As part of the BBC's #BeyondFakeNews season, we went to Nairobi, Kenya to find out.

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'I'm living two times above the age society thought I'd die at' - Talk It Out - BBC Africa

Title: 'I'm living two times above the age society thought I'd die at' - Talk It Out - BBC Africa
Runtime: 5:36
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: What is it like to be born with a disease that is not treatable? How does one navigate life when in constant pain?

Arrey was diagnosed with sickle cell when she was 2 years old. She has recently begun to talk about her condition on public forums.

What does her friend think about this secret?

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La Lucha: Fighting for a better DR Congo - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: La Lucha: Fighting for a better DR Congo - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 10:03
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Dozens of people were killed in clashes with government forces across the Democratic Republic of Congo in 2016.

They were protesting President Joseph Kabila's decision to postpone elections for another two years.

#BBCAfricaEye follows the leading members of a non-violent citizen group called La Lucha, who campaign for political reform in DRC and for Kabila to step down.

But will their call for free and fair elections ever become a reality?

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'A guilt I can't even put to words' - My miscarriage story #TalkItOut - BBC Africa

Title: 'A guilt I can't even put to words' - My miscarriage story #TalkItOut - BBC Africa
Runtime: 7:05
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: For 18 years, Caroline struggled with alcohol addiction. So much so that she lost two babies through miscarriages caused by alcohol.

Now, one year sober, she shares her deepest secret with one of her closest friends who she lied to, when she sat on a bottle of alcohol in her house.

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Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - BBC Africa Book Club

Title: Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - BBC Africa Book Club
Runtime: 16:51
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: On this week's book review, BBC Africa's Princess Irede Abumere and fellow bookworm Mimi Chaka talk about Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's 'Americanah', which is in the process of being adapted into a television series and will star Lupita Nyong'o.

Americanah tells the story of a young Nigerian woman, Ifemelu, who immigrates to the United States to study at university.

Some of the other books we've reviewed in this series:
*Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi: https://youtu.be/3J1iDB4_nFg
*My Sister, The Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite: https://youtu.be/OfL686sA6K8
*Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi: https://youtu.be/GCJGMVUeYP4
*Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo: https://youtu.be/ejjVbQ16OKY
*Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor: https://youtu.be/dtApxlhUlwA

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Should a woman ever propose to a man? #TheSheWord - BBC Africa

Title: Should a woman ever propose to a man? #TheSheWord - BBC Africa
Runtime: 9:31
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Is it okay for a woman to propose to a man?

The ladies of #TheSheWord discuss dating in modern day Africa and the challenges that come with risking it all for love.

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Meet Dino Maamria, the only African manager in British professional football

Title: Meet Dino Maamria, the only African manager in British professional football
Runtime: 7:07
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Born in a tent in the Tunisian desert, Noureddine 'Dino' Maamria has undertaken an unusual route to becoming manager of League Two side Stevenage FC. Today, the 47-year-old is the only African manager working in professional English football.

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Eric Omondi: "My brother's cocaine addiction affected our relationship"

Title: Eric Omondi: "My brother's cocaine addiction affected our relationship"
Runtime: 11:29
Date posted: 8 years ago
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‘I don’t have to be a mother to be a woman’ | What defines womanhood? #TheSheWord - BBC Africa

Title: ‘I don’t have to be a mother to be a woman’ | What defines womanhood? #TheSheWord - BBC Africa
Runtime: 3:51
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: What does it mean to be a woman? In defiance to a society that has historically linked womanhood to a maternal role in public life, meet the women who are challenging traditional beliefs about womanhood.

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"I wanted to die": The 'hell' of kafala jobs in the Middle East - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: "I wanted to die": The 'hell' of kafala jobs in the Middle East - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 5:21
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Many African and Asian countries have banned the recruitment of domestic workers for countries in the Middle East who subscribe to the “kafala” system.

Under the system, foreign maids are legally bound to their employer and have limited rights.

Employers can take advantage of their position and many women are overworked, underpaid and physically abused.

Testimonies from women who escaped and private recordings show a world of powerlessness and abuse, hidden behind closed doors.

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Sharing my abortion secret - Talk It Out - BBC Africa

Title: Sharing my abortion secret - Talk It Out - BBC Africa
Runtime: 7:24
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Sally has a secret that she hasn't shared with her loved ones, until now. She decided to break her silence about an abortion that she had many years ago - and the first person she's telling is her daughter.

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‘My wig got caught on public transport’ - #TheSheWord - BBC Africa

Title: ‘My wig got caught on public transport’ - #TheSheWord - BBC Africa
Runtime: 6:34
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: How would you react if your wig fell off in public? The ladies of the TheSheWord Ciru Muriuki, Femi Nyame, Phonsina Archane and Chiki Kuruka share their most embarrassing hair stories, discuss why women need to be in charge of how they look and take us down memory lane on their own individual hair journeys.

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Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor - BBC Africa Book Club

Title: Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor - BBC Africa Book Club
Runtime: 15:46
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Wondering what to read next? In the second episode of The Book Review, part of a vlog series, BBC Africa's Princess Abumere talks about Akata Witch - or What Sunny Saw in the Flames - by Nnedi Okorafor. This week's guest is Abdulmalik Fahd from BBC Pidgin who also had some thoughts to share on the book, first published in 2011.

Each episode Princess will be looking at recent books, music and exhibits coming from West Africa and beyond.

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What's wrong with being a 'sugar baby'? #TheSheWord -BBC Africa

Title: What's wrong with being a 'sugar baby'? #TheSheWord -BBC Africa
Runtime: 24:04
Date posted: 8 years ago
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How do you tell your friend you are an alcoholic? - Talk it Out - BBC Africa

Title: How do you tell your friend you are an alcoholic? - Talk it Out - BBC Africa
Runtime: 7:20
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Joyce from Ghana struggled to stay sober for 15 years. She started drinking alcohol in her early 20s but she quickly became an alcoholic.

She says she felt strong and brave while drunk but her habit took a heavy toll on her family life.

Now at 39, she has been sober for two years and feels confident to share her secret with her friend.

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How is the African woman valued? #TheSheWord chatshow - BBC Africa

Title: How is the African woman valued? #TheSheWord chatshow - BBC Africa
Runtime: 24:28
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The African woman is said to be the pillar of the society. But how is she valued? And how does she value herself?

Adesuwa Onyenokwe from Nigeria, Ingrid Nantege from Uganda, Valentine Njoroge from Kenya and Christine Yohannes from Ethiopia engage on the first BBC Africa women’s discussion programme, #TheSheWord as they unpack the value of women in Africa.

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Cameroon: Anatomy of a Killing - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: Cameroon: Anatomy of a Killing - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 11:07
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: In July 2018 a horrifying video began to circulate on social media. It shows two women and two young children being led away at gunpoint by a group of Cameroonian soldiers. The captives are blindfolded, forced to the ground, and shot 22 times.

The government of Cameroon initially dismissed the video as “fake news.” But #BBCAfricaEye, through forensic analysis of the footage, can prove exactly where this happened, when it happened, and who is responsible for the killings.

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'Money wives': the children sold to repay debts - BBC documentary

Title: 'Money wives': the children sold to repay debts - BBC documentary
Runtime: 4:31
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Through a tradition called "money marriage", some young girls are used as currency in a type of modern slavery among the Becheve people in southern Nigeria. Children are sold to men as old as 90 to settle debts or as a form of payment. BBC Africa hears from the girls themselves, an elderly husband and the man fighting against the custom.

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Hunting down gangsters with Kenya’s Ahmed Rashid - BBC Africa Eye documentary

Title: Hunting down gangsters with Kenya’s Ahmed Rashid - BBC Africa Eye documentary
Runtime: 27:50
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: In 2017, mobile footage of a plain-clothed policeman gunning down two apparently unarmed men went viral in Kenya. But who is this cop and what prompted the shooting?

#BBCAfricaEye joins controversial officer Ahmed Rashid as he seeks to rid the streets of gangsters and criminals. For the first time, cameras are allowed to follow his team in action in the Somali neighbourhood of Eastleigh, Nairobi. We hear from those who praise his unit and those who condemn them for what they say are a spate of extra-judicial killings.

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Exclusive interview with Ugandan MP Bobi Wine

Title: Exclusive interview with Ugandan MP Bobi Wine
Runtime: 3:51
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Uganda's pop star MP Bobi Wine speaks exclusively to BBC Swahili's Zuhura Yunus in the US, where he has been receiving medical treatment.

The military denies his allegation that he was assaulted in their custody.

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Bridget Achieng: "Baby girl, nothing goes for nothing" - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: Bridget Achieng: "Baby girl, nothing goes for nothing" - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 6:10
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: In Kenya, "sugar daddy" relationships are out in the open - in nightclubs, on campuses, and all over social media.

Bridget Achieng is a Kenyan model, socialite, and reality TV star. But she didn’t always live the glam life. She takes us back to the slums where she grew up, and talks frankly about how she made herself famous through sex appeal, rich tycoons, and social media.

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"If he's asking me to sleep with him, I will" - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: "If he's asking me to sleep with him, I will" - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 6:06
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: In Kenya, "sugar daddy" relationships are out in the open - in nightclubs, on campuses, and all over social media.

Grace is a single mum and nightclub dancer who dreams of being a star. She goes to the Kenyan coast looking for a rich “sponsor” - AKA sugar daddy - who can fund her dream of making it as a singer. But is there such a thing as easy money?

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"Sometimes, sex ain't wrong at all" - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: "Sometimes, sex ain't wrong at all" - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 4:29
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: In Kenya, "sugar daddy" relationships are out in the open - in nightclubs, on campuses, and all over social media.

Female students “prefer dating older men than dating school kids” in Nairobi, says 21-year-old Jane. Although she comes from a traditional family in rural Kenya, Jane freely admits that she gets support from two older guys, and asks, “What is wrong about sex anyway?”

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Get to know Patson Daka, Zambia's football sensation

Title: Get to know Patson Daka, Zambia's football sensation
Runtime: 3:41
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The inspirational story of Patson Daka, the 19-year-old football sensation from Zambia, who plays for Austrian giants Red Bull Salzburg.

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Zarika: From the Kenyan slums to WBC World Champion

Title: Zarika: From the Kenyan slums to WBC World Champion
Runtime: 3:09
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: By the time she was 16, Fatuma Zarika had two children. She had dropped out of school and thought her live was 'over'. She told BBC Sport Africa how she went from a poor single mother of two in Kenya to WBC World champion.

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Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo - BBC Africa Book Club

Title: Stay With Me by Ayobami Adebayo - BBC Africa Book Club
Runtime: 11:55
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: We're kicking off our very first episode of The Book Review, part of a vlog series with BBC Africa's Princess Abumere.

Each episode Princess will be looking at recent books, music and exhibits coming from West Africa and beyond.

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The children living next to Johannesburg's radioactive mine dumps

Title: The children living next to Johannesburg's radioactive mine dumps
Runtime: 8:28
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Johannesburg in South Africa has one of the world's largest gold deposits. After decades of mining, large swathes of the population are thought to be exposed to toxic and radioactive mine waste. Sophie Ribstein went to meet people living close to the dumps to find out what effect it is having on their health. Filmed and edited by Christian Parkinson.

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Malawi's Human Harvest - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: Malawi's Human Harvest - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 25:22
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: On a riverbank in rural Malawi, police find a headless corpse – one of dozens of victims apparently killed for body parts used in ritual magic.

Legendary Ghanaian journalist Anas Arameyaw Anas and local reporter Henry Mhango set out to investigate the deaths, and to find out who profits from these brutal killings.

But at secret meeting in a remote spot, the investigation goes terrifyingly wrong.

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Joel Embiid full interview: 'Why my dad didn't want me to play basketball'

Title: Joel Embiid full interview: 'Why my dad didn't want me to play basketball'
Runtime: 6:31
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Joel Embiid is one of the biggest basketball players in the world today. He spoke to BBC Sport Africa's Isaac Fanin about his dreams, his inspirations, and what it was like coming to America as a young kid.

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The secret lives of Kenya's drag queens - BBC News Africa

Title: The secret lives of Kenya's drag queens - BBC News Africa
Runtime: 1:56
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Gay men in Kenya who like to cross-dress have to do it behind closed doors. It's not easy being a drag queen in a country where homosexual acts are illegal. The BBC has been spending time with a group of young gay men who say drag is a way "to showcase their talent and diversity".

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When Alex Iwobi went to Lagos, Nigeria - BBC Sport Africa

Title: When Alex Iwobi went to Lagos, Nigeria - BBC Sport Africa
Runtime: 3:28
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: We met up with Arsenal and Nigeria footballer Alex Iwobi when he returned to Lagos to visit a football academy. He met up with some of the young players who look up to him as an inspiration.

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The Dahomey Mothers, the all-female army trained to kill

Title: The Dahomey Mothers, the all-female army trained to kill
Runtime: 1:56
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The Dahomey mothers or Amazons were a group of elite all-female soldiers, who were trained to kill and protect the Kingdom of Dahomey, in modern-day Benin. They started by protecting the king, but would go on to fight against the French.

They are the fourth story in a new eight-part series, African Women who Changed the World, which aims to shed light on great African women whose stories deserve to be heard.

This BBC Africa series has been produced using historical and iconographic research, but includes artistic interpretation.

Illustrations: Manuella Bonomi
Producer and editor: Kat Hawkins

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Rehab Nightmare: Drugs, Chains and Canes - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: Rehab Nightmare: Drugs, Chains and Canes - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 28:00
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: #BBCAfricaEye’s investigation goes undercover in the #Somali neighbourhood of Nairobi, Kenya, to expose a form of religious healing gone badly wrong.

Islamic rehab centres offer treatment to people suffering from addiction or mental health problems. But Somali reporter Jamal Osman discovers that, behind the closed doors of one rehab clinic, patients are routinely abused, beaten, and forced to drink a toxic liquid called harmala.

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Queen Amina, "woman as capable as a man"

Title: Queen Amina, "woman as capable as a man"
Runtime: 1:43
Date posted: 8 years ago
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What it's like to compete in Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz

Title: What it's like to compete in Ghana's National Science and Maths Quiz
Runtime: 5:51
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: A TV science and maths quiz show where schools are pitted against each other has had Ghanaians hooked for years. We followed one contestant on his journey of persistence and preparation, in the pursuit of victory.

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Huda Shaarawi and her fight for women's education in Egypt

Title: Huda Shaarawi and her fight for women's education in Egypt
Runtime: 2:18
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Her most famous moment came in 1923, when she threw her veil off outside Cairo train station, and encouraged others to do the same.

Huda Shaarawi's story is part of an eight-part series, African Women who Changed the World, which aims to shed light on great African women whose stories deserve to be heard.

This BBC Africa series has been produced using historical and iconographic research, but includes artistic interpretation.

Producer and editor: Kat Hawkins
Illustrations: Manuella Bonomi

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My Neighbour The Rapist - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: My Neighbour The Rapist - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 45:10
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: It's is one of the poorest parts of South Africa. But poverty is not the biggest problem here. Diepsloot is the most dangerous part of South Africa - especially if you are a woman.

Warning: the video has shocking and upsetting scenes.

Details of UK organisations offering information and support with sexual violence are available at bbc.co.uk/actionline, or you can call for free, at any time to hear recorded information on 0800 077 077

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Africa's football success: Local coaches or foreign?

Title: Africa's football success: Local coaches or foreign?
Runtime: 5:19
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: The debate has raged for years amongst football fans: should national teams hire local or foreign coaches? So far, no World Cup winning country has ever gone to the tournament with a foreign coach. Should African football teams keep local coaches for the World Cup?

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Title: Yaa Asantewaa, Ghana's Warrior Queen
Runtime: 2:11
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Yaa Asantewaa was a Ghanaian warrior queen, born around 1840, who rose up to lead an army against the invading British.

She is the first story in a new eight-part series, African Women who Changed the World, which aims to shed light on great African women whose stories deserve to be heard.

This BBC Africa series has been produced using historical and iconographic research, but includes artistic interpretation.

Producer and editor: Kat Hawkins
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Why is Egypt so good at Squash? - BBC Sport Africa

Title: Why is Egypt so good at Squash? - BBC Sport Africa
Runtime: 7:45
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: There are some sports in which certain countries are just really good at. We're talking New Zealand and Rugby, Brazil and football, Kenya and middle distance running.

And it might surprise you that an African country dominates the sport of squash. BBC Sport Africa's Isaac Fanin is here to find out why Egypt is so good at squash.

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Cameroon Burning: The unseen war - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: Cameroon Burning: The unseen war - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 9:44
Date posted: 8 years ago
Description: Hundreds of shocking mobile phone videos from Cameroon have surfaced in the past six months. They are coming from the English speaking part of the country, where rebels are fighting to form an independent state called "Ambazonia".

#BBCAfricaEye analysed these films, shedding fresh light on who is responsible for the violence.

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Sauti Sol's Short n Sweet: meet choreographer Aggie the Dance Queen

Title: Sauti Sol's Short n Sweet: meet choreographer Aggie the Dance Queen
Runtime: 4:07
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: You'll know her from Sauti Sol and Nyashinski's "Short n Sweet". Aggie the Dance Queen has made a name for herself, and we caught up with her in her dance studio to talk about her fame, her future plans, and THAT outfit.

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Betraying the Game: Anas Aremeyaw Anas investigates football in Africa - BBC Africa Eye Documentary

Title: Betraying the Game: Anas Aremeyaw Anas investigates football in Africa - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
Runtime: 51:06
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Almost one hundred football officials across West Africa and Kenya have been caught on camera accepting cash in a sting operation. It’s part of a two-year long undercover investigation by controversial Ghanaian journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas.

#BBCAfricaEye has had exclusive access to the footage for their latest documentary. In one case a World Cup bound assistant referee from Kenya accepted six hundred dollars from a man posing as an official of a Ghanaian premiership team.

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Talking "This is Nigeria" with Falz: full interview

Title: Talking "This is Nigeria" with Falz: full interview
Runtime: 5:45
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: His music video "This is Nigeria" has gone viral, with millions watching it within days of its release. Falz tha Bahd Guy talks to BBC Africa's Usifo Umozokpea about why he decided to cover Childish Gambino's This is Ameria, and comments on the backlash he has received since his video came out.

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What does a strongman eat? Iron Biby shares his advice - BBC Sport Africa

Title: What does a strongman eat? Iron Biby shares his advice - BBC Sport Africa
Runtime: 1:45
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: What does strongman Iron Biby eat for breakfast? What's his advice on getting more ripped? He shares his tips with BBC Sport Africa.

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5 ways drivers can make it to Formula 1 - with Axcil Jefferies - BBC Sport Africa

Title: 5 ways drivers can make it to Formula 1 - with Axcil Jefferies - BBC Sport Africa
Runtime: 2:20
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Zimbabwean racing driver Axcil Jefferies spoke to BBC Sport Africa on what it will take for African drivers to make it in Formula 1. He says it's still his dream to drive in an F1 race.

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Lauritta Onye, Paralympic gold-medallist, on "reaching the peak"

Title: Lauritta Onye, Paralympic gold-medallist, on "reaching the peak"
Runtime: 1:27
Date posted: 9 years ago
Description: Nigeria's star shot-putter Lauritta Onye talks to BBC Sport Africa about her rise to Paralympic gold and stardom.

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