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My Stolen Childhood: Understanding the trokosi system - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
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- My Stolen Childhood: Understanding the trokosi system - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
- Runtime
- 25:42
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Thousands of women across West Africa have been enslaved by a centuries old practice called “trokosi”. Girls are forced to live and work with priests in religious shrines, for the rest of their lives, to “pay” for the sins of family members. Although the practice has officially been banned in Ghana, it’s still happening there and in other parts of West Africa but on a smaller scale.
Twenty years after she was freed from this practice, Brigitte Sossou Perenyi goes on a journey to understand what trokosi really is and why her family gave her away.
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- South Africa's Usain Bolt? Akani Simbine shows us his favourite tattoo - BBC Sport Africa
- Runtime
- 1:39
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Commonwealth 100m champion, South Africa's Akani Simbine shares his tips for success on the track, shows us his favourite tattoo and tells us who he admires most.
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- Meet Marylove Edwards, Nigeria’s 13 year-old tennis sensation - BBC Sport Africa
- Runtime
- 2:58
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- They’re calling her the “Nigerian Serena” - but Marylove Edwards wants to be known by her own name.
BBC Sport Africa met the thirteen-year-old, who is tipped for future international success by top tennis coach Nick Bollettieri.
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- Title
- What does Yannick Bolasie wear to bed? 🤔 - BBC Sport Africa
- Runtime
- 1:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Everton FC and DR Congo winger Yannick Bolasie tells us what he wears to bed, gives his verdict on Messi vs Ronaldo and more.
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- Sweet Sweet Codeine: Nigeria's cough syrup crisis - BBC Africa Eye Documentary
- Runtime
- 52:55
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- In Nigeria, thousands of young people are addicted to codeine cough syrup – a medicine that’s become a street drug.
The Nigerian senate estimates that 3 million bottles of codeine syrup are drunk every day in just two states – Kano and Jigawa.
But who makes this syrup? And who sells it to Nigeria’s students?
#BBCAfricaEye went undercover to investigate.
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- Title
- Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed wants to resolve Eritrea disputes
- Runtime
- 2:47
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Ethiopia PM Abiy Ahmed wants to resolve Eritrea disputes
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- Title
- 'Who gets to belong in Africa?'
- Runtime
- 2:57
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- What makes a person belong in Africa?
It's a question that's been debated a lot over the years - both on the continent and within the diaspora.
South African YouTubers Pap Culture have been exploring this - having difficult conversations about xenophobia in the country, as well as celebrating traditional culture.
Lebo Diseko went to meet them in Cape Town.
Video journalist: Christian Parkinson
To view the Pap Culture channel you can follow the link below:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk4KfvYBQp6fXqQxP9ywG6w
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- Title
- Meet Amina Hersi - one of Africa's most successful female entrepreneurs
- Runtime
- 3:49
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- We speak to Amina Hersi, one of Africa's most successful female entrepreneurs.
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- Title
- Black Panther sets records across Africa
- Runtime
- 3:00
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Black Panther sets records across Africa
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- Title
- Uchechi Okwu-Kanu, wife of Nnamdi Kanu, 'still looking for answers'
- Runtime
- 5:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Freed from jail in 2015, but now his whereabouts are unknown. In an exclusive interview, Namdi Kanu's wife Uchechi Okwu-Kanu tells the BBC that she's still looking for answers.
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- Title
- Lupita Nyong'o on what Black Panther means for Africans
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- We get an insight into the making of Black Panther from Lupita Nyong'o.
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- Title
- The London barbershop launching Afrobeats stars
- Runtime
- 6:36
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Nikky Okyere is the chosen stylist of Premier League players and Afrobeat stars. His barbershop in Camberwell, South London, has become a platform for dancers and musicians to launch their careers.
Watch part one of Nikky's story here: https://www.youtube.com/edit?o=U&video_id=iWHuoSocCvY
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- Premier League footballers get hairstyles from this Ghanaian barber - BBC Africa
- Runtime
- 7:51
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Nikky Okyere, who came to the UK from Ghana, has become the go-to barber for English Premier League footballers from Africa, like Crystal Palace FC's Bakery Sako and Wilfried Zaha. Describing himself as a 'hair therapist', some of his other clients include Yakubu Aiyegbeni, Jordon Ibe, Asamoah Gyan, Christian Atsu, Mario Balotelli, Christian Benteke, and Danny Welbeck. Apart from running his own barbershop in Camberwell, south London, he also does home visits to some of his more famous customers.
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- Mohamed Abdullahi Farmaajo: Somalia's president speaks
- Runtime
- 4:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A year into his mandate Somalia's President tells the BBC that the first year was a warmup and now Al-Shabab's days are numbered.
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- Title
- My music is like soup | Jahseen | Global Beats
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Jahseen is one of a new generation of Senegalese musicians who challenges what people around the world considers Senegalese music to be. Jahseen talks about the plurality of global music influences and what inspires her music. From Brazilian sounds and bossa nova to Motown and Mbalax, Jahseen combines lots of influences into a sound that in uniquely hers.
Listen to BBC World Service Global beats here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01yvy2g
- Title
- Robert Mugabe - from war hero to president
- Runtime
- 2:06
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- A look back at the career of Zimbabwe's leader Robert Mugabe as he resigns as president after a 37-year rule.
- Title
- In conversation with Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate in Literature
- Runtime
- 18:03
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Nigerian Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka looks back at the 1962 Conference of African Literature, which vowed to change Africa using Literature. He was speaking to the BBC's Veronique Edwards.
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- Noëlla Coursaris Musunka: from the catwalk to the classroom in DR Congo
- Runtime
- 2:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Meet the inspirational Noëlla Coursaris Musunka - model, philanthropist, entrepreneur and founder of Malaika School in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Aerial video images of Malaika - courtesy David Burns
Photos - courtesy Malaika.
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- 360: Inside DR Congo's deadly Nyiragongo volcano
- Runtime
- 1:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Celestin Mahinda and his team of scientists constantly monitor the Nyiragongo volcano in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Based in the nearby town of Goma, they have saved lives by warning local communities of impending eruptions.
- Title
- Bull wrestling for love
- Runtime
- 4:22
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Warning: Video contains some graphic images of human injury
For centuries, Betsileo men in Madagascar have hosted “Savika” bull wrestling tournaments to win the hearts of local women. Andy Rafanambinantsoa is single, and desperate to find his love.
Bulls, which are considered sacred, are not harmed in traditional Malagasy Savika.
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- Amina Yuguda wins 2017 Komla Dumor award
- Runtime
- 15:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Journalist Amina Yuguda from north-eastern Nigeria won the third BBC World News Komla Dumor Award. BBC Africa's Victoria Uwonkunda chatted to her live on Facebook about what winning meant to her and her future ambitions.
Find out more about the award here:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-38971404
- Title
- Five Fingers for Marseilles, a South African western
- Runtime
- 2:12
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Modern-day South African western Five Fingers for Marseilles premieres this week at the Toronto International Film Festival.The film's screenwriter and producer Sean Drummond told us why a fresh spin on this beloved genre was the perfect way to look at issues facing the country today.
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- Taekwondo champion kicks gender inequality where it hurts
- Runtime
- 1:33
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Thursdaline Peter is a medal-winning Taekwondo fighter and Nigeria's youngest referee. As well as teaching young people self-defence, she is also a passionate advocate for gender equality.
- Title
- BBC Pidgin - FUSE ODG explains what 'chale' means
- Runtime
- 0:21
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- BBC Pidgin - FUSE ODG explains what 'chale' means
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- Title
- BBC Pidgin - Peter Okwoche, DJ Edu, Akwasi Sarpong and Didi Akinyelure show some love
- Runtime
- 0:43
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Akwasi Sarpong, DJ Edu, Didi Akinyelure and Peter Okwoche love BBC Pidgin
Website: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
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- Title
- BBC Pidgin is for Basketmouth, Toyin Abraham, Harrysong everybody!
- Runtime
- 0:57
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Basketmouth, Toyin Abraham and Harrysong show their passion for BBC Pidigin
Website: https://www.bbc.com/pidgin
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- Title
- Duduzane Zuma: Exclusive interview with the South African President's son - BBC Africa
- Runtime
- 18:08
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- President Jacob Zuma’s son denies that he is involved in corruption. In an exclusive wide ranging BBC interview Duduzane Zuma, who is a business partner of the controversial Gupta family, spoke candidly about the corruption scandal engulfing South Africa. Our Correspondent Milton Nkosi travelled to Dubai to meet him.
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- Title
- Akon's plan for an 'iTunes for Africa'
- Runtime
- 1:41
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Senegalese-American singer Akon wants to create a music streaming service in Africa to compete with its global competitors. The artist has announced he is purchasing 50% of the Senegalese company Musik Bi.
- Title
- Lagos jollof festival
- Runtime
- 1:04
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Food lovers in Nigeria have been attending the inaugural Jollof festival in Lagos. The festival was held ahead of what some have declared World Jollof Day - 22 August.
- Title
- Tinie Tempah photobomb girl Olajumoke - from bread seller to model
- Runtime
- 1:54
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- How did a girl hawking bread who photobombed Tinie Tempah on the streets of Lagos rise to become a national celebrity and successful model? This is the real life Cinderella story of Olajumoke Orisaguna.
Photograph - Ty Bello.
- Title
- On patrol in Africa's lawless wild west
- Runtime
- 2:54
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- BBC Africa's Tomi Oladipo joins a UN peacekeeping patrol in Mali, where smugglers, drug traffickers, arms dealers and militants thrive in the lawless lands to the north of Timbuktu.
- Title
- Ghana's dancing pallbearers - BBC Africa
- Runtime
- 2:17
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Pallbearers are lifting the mood at funerals in Ghana with flamboyant coffin-carrying dances. Families are increasingly paying for their services to send their loved ones off in style.
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- Title
- "Afro-fashion magician" who creates dresses in minutes
- Runtime
- 1:28
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- The "Afro-fashion magician" aka Ugandan designer Latif Madoi has become known for his "fast fashion" shows, where he takes a piece of fabric and creates a dress in just a few minutes.
- Title
- Madagascar's illegal sapphire mines
- Runtime
- 7:14
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Indris - the largest lemurs - are native to Madagascar but their existence is threatened by illegal sapphire mining. Since late last year more than 40,000 miners have descended on the island.
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- Title
- Aar Maanta, the Somali-British singer making music with refugees
- Runtime
- 3:15
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
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- Title
- Winnie Mandela makes a damning statement on the ANC's legacy
- Runtime
- 4:21
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
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- Title
- Emmanuel Adebayor opens up about his career, his family and himself
- Runtime
- 3:19
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
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- Title
- When former slave Martha Ricks met Queen Victoria
- Runtime
- 2:02
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- When former slave Martha Ann Erskine Ricks fulfilled her dream of meeting Queen Victoria, sailing from Liberia to England in 1892, she took with her a special gift for the monarch.
Here is her story, in her own words, read by her descendant Florence Dennis-Huskin.
Images of Martha are courtesy of the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Animation by Jenny Anderson.
Producer: Penny Dale
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- Title
- Nwankwo Kanu - Nigeria and Arsenal legend puts his heart into healthcare
- Runtime
- 2:18
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Nigeria and Arsenal legend Nwankwo Kanu inspired millions across Africa as a player. Now he wants to make a difference off the pitch, by improving healthcare on the continent.
He was talking to the BBC as part of the Where Are They Now? series, looking at ex-Premier League players from Africa.
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- Title
- Salif Diao - former Senegal and Liverpool midfielder passes it forward to the next generation
- Runtime
- 2:56
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Former Senegal midfielder had to spend 10 days sleeping rough under a stadium while awaiting his trial with his first club.
The ex-Liverpool and Stoke player now runs his own academy which trains Senegalese children in football, but only if they stay in school.He's been talking to BBC Africa as part of the Where Are They Now? series, looking at ex-Premier League players from Africa.
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- Title
- Peter Ndlovu - catching up with Africa's first black Premier League footballer - BBC Africa
- Runtime
- 2:51
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Former Zimbabwe footballer Peter Ndlovu has said he would be prepared to give his national shirt to President Robert Mugabe.
The former Coventry City striker was the first black African player to play in the English Premier League.
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- Title
- El Hadji Diouf - Senegal and Liverpool's controversial football legend
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 9 years ago
- Description
- Controversial Senegal football legend El Hadji Diouf says he's fitter than ever and enjoying life away from the pitch, advising the president on how to bring through the next generation of sport stars.
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- Title
- The South African men turning the tide of violence against women
- Runtime
- 3:06
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
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- Title
- Ilhan Omar interview: "It was the young people that believed in my ideas"
- Runtime
- 3:08
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Ilhan Omar speaks to the BBC about her experience getting elected as State Representative for Minnesota, and responds to Donald Trump's comments about the Somali community in her home state.
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- Title
- Uganda's enterprising paper bag lady
- Runtime
- 1:53
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- When the Ugandan government banned plastic bags, Rusia Orikiriza was a young student, but she spotted a business opportunity.
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- Title
- Using plastic bottles to build refugee homes
- Runtime
- 2:50
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Tatah Birka was born in a mud-brick house in a refugee camp. Now he is using plastic bottles to build stronger homes for refugees in Algeria.
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- Title
- Where are Sierra Leone's missing Ebola millions?
- Runtime
- 2:35
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Nearly three years after Ebola hit Sierra Leone, millions of dollars in funds raised to fight the deadly virus have still not been accounted for.
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- Title
- Ronke Aderinoye - African Women You Need to Know
- Runtime
- 1:24
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Ronke Aderinoye is a Nigerian farmer. She is on a mission to turn round Nigeria’s economy through agriculture.
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- Title
- Edna Adan Ismail - African Women You Need to Know
- Runtime
- 1:49
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Edna Adan Ismail has cashed in her life savings to build the first maternity hospital in Somaliland.
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- Title
- 'Weakness is a choice' - Meet the disabled bodybuilder changing perceptions
- Runtime
- 2:30
- Date posted
- 10 years ago
- Description
- Caleb Mutombo doesn’t fit the stereotype of a bodybuilder. He was born severely disabled and weighs less than 40kg. Despite that, he now competes in South Africa and hopes to inspire other people to follow him into the sport.
Video Journalists: Christian Parkinson and Late Lawson
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