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Women of Africa: Preparing a cup of fresh coffee in Ivory coast

Title: Women of Africa: Preparing a cup of fresh coffee in Ivory coast
Runtime: 1:10
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Ethiopia is the home of coffee, but other African countries are increasingly developing a taste for the bean - particularly in Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Kenya and Uganda.

As part of our Women of Africa: Africa's New Businesswomen series, Ivorian cafe owner Fabienne Dervain explains how to make a good brew.

Watch the full interview online: http://bbc.in/1Q4FJVo

Wedding brings "normality" in a country battling Boko Haram

Title: Wedding brings "normality" in a country battling Boko Haram
Runtime: 2:38
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Nigeria has been battling the Islamist extremist group Boko Haram for the past six years. Suicide bombings still take place on an almost weekly basis, but in recent months the army has made significant gains, taking back most major towns and cities.
For some people life is now getting back to a degree of normality.
BBC Hausa's Jimeh Saleh has returned to his hometown of Maiduguri - where he was invited to a wedding.

Title: What is life like under Boko Haram?
Runtime: 3:32
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Their towns were burnt to the ground, their sons were shot dead and their daughters abducted - just some of the horror stories we've been hearing from survivors of the Boko Haram insurgency - which has torn apart north-east Nigeria. A report by BBC Africa's Jimeh Saleh.

Turning plastic waste into a solar-powered school bag

Title: Turning plastic waste into a solar-powered school bag
Runtime: 0:39
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: South African entrepreneur Thato Kgatlhanye, founder of Rethaka Repurpose Schoolbags, explains how her innovative company designs and manufactures school bags from recycled plastic bags in South Africa. Watch the full interview with Thato: http://bbc.in/1Z822PK. Part of the BBC's Women of Africa: Africa's New Businesswomen series.

Exclusive: BBC Africa travels to Boko Haram's stronghold

Title: Exclusive: BBC Africa travels to Boko Haram's stronghold
Runtime: 4:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: When Nigeria's new President Muhamadu Buhari was inaugurated in May 2015, he vowed to crush Boko Haram, by the end of this year.
The world’s most deadly terrorist group's six-year insurgency in the North East of the country has seen more than 17,000 people killed and more than 2 million others displaced.

With the deadline on 31 December 2015 - BBC Hausa's Jimeh Saleh returned to his home town of Maiduguri, the capital of Borno state to see what progress has been made. Jimeh and his team were granted exclusive access to travel with the army. They are the only journalists to have been taken to Boko Haram's stronghold, The Sambisa forest, during this conflict.

Rugby's Rasta Referee: "Records are there to be broken"

Title: Rugby's Rasta Referee: "Records are there to be broken"
Runtime: 2:31
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: South Africa's Sevens Rugby team known as the Blitz Bokker won the Cape Town leg of the HSBC Sevens World Series earlier this month (Dec 12-13). Sevens Rugby is a shorter version of the 15 player union game rugby, played by seven players and in seven minutes in each half. While the sport is known for its fast paced athletes and noisy fans, the referees aren't usually in the spotlight, but there is one South African referee who is making a name for himself. Rasta Rasivhenge is a former mathematics teacher turned professional referee. He spoke to the BBC about his love for the sport.

Taste of Home | Taking Haute African Cuisine to Paris

Title: Taste of Home | Taking Haute African Cuisine to Paris
Runtime: 2:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Loic Dable is a young Parisian whose family comes from Ivory Coast.

He's just opened a gourmet restaurant right in the middle of Paris' chic 16th arrondissement, near the Eiffel Tower and Arc de Triomphe.

There, he is trying to persuade French lovers of Haute Cuisine to sample some African flavours.

BBC Africa's Peter Okwoche went to Paris for a tasting.

Taste of Home | Re-inventing African food in London

Title: Taste of Home | Re-inventing African food in London
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Duval Timothy, Folayemi Brown and Fodio Todd started The Groundnut as a supper club in South London, serving up their own unique recipes and cocktails alongside old favourites like mandazi and plantains.

Following the success of their pop-up dinners, they wrote a book and got published by one of the biggest British publishers, Penguin.

The BBC’s Peter Okwoche met them in a South London market in to find out more.

BBC Africa is running a special week of radio and TV programmes about African food in Europe from 14-18 December.

Taste of Home | How to cook African food with a European twist

Title: Taste of Home | How to cook African food with a European twist
Runtime: 2:34
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Cooking African food with a European twist is London-based Ghanaian cook Fafa Gilbert's big passion.

She has set up a YouTube channel - Ndudu by Fafa – to teach people her recipes. "Ndudu" means food in Ghana's Ewe language.

BBC Africa's Peter Okwoche visited her kitchen to sample her creations.

Taste of Home | Eritrean cafe top ranked in London

Title: Taste of Home | Eritrean cafe top ranked in London
Runtime: 2:43
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Shewa Hagos and her sons changed their sandwich shop into a traditional Eritrean cafe in 2014.

Within a few months, the Blue Nile had become London's best restaurant on the review site TripAdvisor.

BBC's Africa's Peter Okwoche went to test his taste buds.

Taste of Home | Nigerian food pops up in London

Title: Taste of Home | Nigerian food pops up in London
Runtime: 2:47
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Computer scientist Nky Iweka gave up her day job a few years ago to dedicate herself to Nigerian cuisine.

Her mission is to introduce her passion to the world, which she does at home in London, where she has set up a Nigerian pop-up restaurant.

The BBC's Peter Okwoche went to meet her.

Title: UK army signs training deal with Kenya
Runtime: 4:26
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Kenya has signed a deal with the UK, allowing the British Army to continue training thousands of troops in the country every year.
The agreement still needs to be ratified by both the UK and the Kenyan parliaments, but it will allow the army to use what has become its biggest foreign training area for live firing drills.
The BBC's Africa Correspondent Alastair Leithead joined one of the exercises.

Title: From human waste to cooking fuel
Runtime: 1:38
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: WATCH: Ghana's capital Accra has had a reputation for poor waste management, but is now trying to turn this to its advantage - recycling human waste into cooking fuel. #ghana #accra #BBCAfrica #recylcling

WomEng: Building the next generation of female engineers | Women of Africa

Title: WomEng: Building the next generation of female engineers | Women of Africa
Runtime: 2:29
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Meet the last of our eight ‪#WomenOfAfrica‬ unsung heroes: inspiring South African civil engineer and co-founder of WomEng, Today's woman of Africa is Naadiya Moosaje, who is an engineer and co-founded WomEng, a group that helps African women gain knowledge, networks and access to the fields of engineering and technology.

"It’s such a proud moment for me to have these girls come up to me and say, “Naadiya, you have changed my life. I’m an engineer because of you.” It gives me goose bumps every single time."

Learn more here: https://www.womeng.org/

Do African societies accept women in leadership ?

Title: Do African societies accept women in leadership ?
Runtime: 27:21
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Today at 1100 GMT as part of the BBC's ‪#‎100women‬ series, BBC Africa will host a Google hang-out to discuss whether African societies can accept women in leadership. If you're a woman in a leadership position, what kind of reaction have you had from those inside and outside your organisation? Are men still reluctant to accept women in positions of power and the decisions they make? Do men feel threatened by the advancement of women in the workplace? Do quota systems help to get women up to parity with men? Or are they a backward step? Are young girls still groomed to be the helper at home rather than someone with ambitious targets? Do women subconsciously limit themselves to expect less from a career? What is the price women pay for pursuing their goals? Let us know your thoughts and experiences

Title: Pope song made in Uganda
Runtime: 1:47
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Parish Priest, Father Michael Senfuma has written a song which he'll perform for Pope Francis during his visit to Uganda.

The thirty-seven year old will be part of tens of thousands of young people attending a papal rally in Kampala.

Father Michael says he's been thinking of the song's lyric's since Pope Francis' inauguration.

Didier Drogba would like Chelsea F.C. job

Title: Didier Drogba would like Chelsea F.C. job
Runtime: 2:42
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Former Chelsea striker Didier Drogba says he has an agreement to return to the club once he finishes playing and wants it to be as manager.

Drogba, who now plays in Canada, scored 164 goals in two spells with the Blues.

"I want to give back to the club which has given so much to me. I have agreed that with the club directors," the 37-year-old told BBC Africa.

Title: African women in Business
Runtime: 2:45
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Women starting and working in their own businesses is most definitely good progress - and it's happening more and more in Ghana. The only issue is, most are stuck at the "micro" level. About 80 per cent of women-owned businesses are unable to expand - as Metro TV's Naa Kwarley Oteng-Boadu reports from Accra for the BBC.

WOMEN OF AFRICA: Deafblind lawyer Haben Girma on breaking barriers

Title: WOMEN OF AFRICA: Deafblind lawyer Haben Girma on breaking barriers
Runtime: 2:28
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Haben Girma was the first deafblind student to graduate from Harvard Law School. Today the Eritrean-American fights for better education for deafblind people worldwide.

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[Video opens with photos of African women and lively music. Music ends with the words: ‘Women of Africa: Africa’s Unsung Heroes’ under the BBC logo]

[Screen now shows Haben sitting in a chair in her office]

Haben says: “My mother grew up during the 30 years of war in Eritrea, where Eritreans struggled to gain independence from Ethiopia. And when she was 16, she took the very dangerous journey, walking three weeks through the deserts of Eritrea. And then a reparatory organisation helped her come to the United States.”

[Screen now shows text on black background, reading:]

Haben Girma

Lawyer

Haben, 27, was born in the US after her mother fled Eritrea as a refugee in the e...

First deafblind Harvard lawyer on breaking barriers, dancing + surfing

Title: First deafblind Harvard lawyer on breaking barriers, dancing + surfing
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Haben Girma is the first deafblind graduate of Harvard Law School - but she doesn't want to be the last. Today the Eritrean-American lawyer campaigns to improve accessible technologies for people with disabilities, through her organisation Disability Right Advocates.

Haben is the sixth inspiring woman to be recognised in the BBC's Women of Africa: Africa's unsung Heroes series.

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Haben: "I grew up facing access barriers as a deafblind person, and that inspired me to become a lawyer. And work to remove access barriers facing people with disabilities around the world.

Graduating from Harvard Law School says a lot about what can be done when people have the right attitude.

About 12 years ago, I attended a camp for the blind and met an amazing blind dancer. She taught me my first swing and salsa lessons.

I also do tandem surfing. Surfing feels very liberating and exciting. And I love being able to ...

Title: Ugandan gay refugees in Kenya
Runtime: 1:00
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Hundreds of people in Uganda's lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community have fled the country to escape homophobia and persecution. But many are now stuck in Kenya where the situation is not much better.

Title: What's on Focus on Africa TV today?
Runtime: 0:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Violence in Burundi, Sierra Leone is declared Ebola free and much more. Sophie Ikenye on the latest African and international news stories coming up on Focus on Africa TV, today at 17.30 GMT on BBC World News.

Title: Odion Ighalo on Ballon D'Or list
Runtime: 3:01
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Super Eagles and Watford striker Odion Ighalo is currently the top goal scorer in England this calendar year.
He told the BBC Africa’s Stanley Kwenda that he is not getting carried away by this rich goal scoring form. He believes more African players deserve to be on the FIFA Ballon d'Or list.
Ivory Coast and Manchester City midfielder Yaya Toure is the only African player who made the year’s list.

Title: A film about women turning 50 in Lagos
Runtime: 2:57
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Fifty is a new Nigerian film about four successful, glamorous women in the ever-bustling, mega-city of Lagos.

Apart from success, they have another thing in common: they are all hitting the big 5-O.

It premiered at the London Film Festival a few days ago and is out in cinemas in Nigeria in December.

BBC Africa’s Adrian Duke spoke to the director, Biyi Bandele – who two years ago also directed Half of a Yellow Sun - and began by asking him: Why a film about 50-year-old women?

(Image courtesy of the BFI London Film Festival)

Sibling rivalry - Andre Ayew talks about facing his brother Jordan

Title: Sibling rivalry - Andre Ayew talks about facing his brother Jordan
Runtime: 1:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: How many sets of brothers can you name in football? The Charltons? The Nevilles? The Toure brothers?

This weekend there'll be sibling rivalry at Villa Park as Swansea City's Andre Ayew takes on Aston Villa's Jordan Ayew.

Andre tells Sport Wales there'll be no love lost between them - for 90 minutes on the pitch.

You can watch BBC Sport Wales at 21:00 BST on Friday 23 October on BBC Two Wales, Football Focus on BBC One at 12:10 Saturday 24 October and via the iPlayer.

WOMEN OF AFRICA | Phindile Sithole-Spong on living with HIV

Title: WOMEN OF AFRICA | Phindile Sithole-Spong on living with HIV
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: "People thought that because you're HIV positive it's a death sentence... I wanted to rectify those misconceptions". Meet the first of our 'unsung heroes', Phindile Sithole-Spong - activist and founder of Rebranding HIV.

Women of Africa is a special season recognising inspiring women around the continent. The first series, Africa's Unsung Heroes, celebrates eight women making a difference in their community. Join us every Wednesday until 2 December to meet all our heroines.

Beasts of No Nation - Abraham Attah, actor

Title: Beasts of No Nation - Abraham Attah, actor
Runtime: 0:50
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Beasts of No Nation, a film about civil war in an unnamed West African country, had just had its UK premiere at the BFI London Film Festival.

The movie, written and directed by Cary Fukunaga, is based on a novel by Nigerian-American writer Uzodinma Iweala and takes its title from an album by Fela Kuti.

It features British actor Idris Elba in the role of a warlord who trains an orphan as a child soldier, played by a 14-year-old first-time actor from Ghana, Abraham Attah.

Last month, Attah won the Marcello Mastroianni's Best Young Actor Award at the Venice Film Festival.

“I don’t know anything about child soldiers so when I got the role I had to do some small research about the war,” he told BBC Africa’s Frenny Jowi.

Traditional jewellers at the Victoria Falls

Title: Traditional jewellers at the Victoria Falls
Runtime: 2:02
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Ndau people from Zimbabwe are well known for their artistic skills. Joe Mutoko comes from a third generation of jewellers and is keeping up the family tradition in the resort town of Victoria Falls by creating bespoke high end jewellery known as the Ndau Collection.

Kenya: Where Princess Elizabeth became Queen

Title: Kenya: Where Princess Elizabeth became Queen
Runtime: 2:11
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: In February 1952, Princess Elizabeth was enjoying a short break in Kenya with Prince Philip, her husband of five years. It was a brief respite from their royal duties.
And it was here on 6 February, that the princess became Queen, after George VI passed away in his sleep.
Now Queen Elizabeth II is the UK's longest-reining monarch.

Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari talks to BBC Africa

Title: Nigerian president Muhammadu Buhari talks to BBC Africa
Runtime: 3:09
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: President Muhammadu Buhari on corruption in Nigeria's oil industry: "We are getting a lot of results. We hope in a couple of months' time we can make clear disclosures and start the prosecution of those that had been stealing the crude. (...) Those who have been in charge of the NNPC at top level, they can't claim ignorance of what has been happening for the last ten years". He was speaking to BBC Hausa Editor Mansur Liman.

Akon on Lighting Africa - BBC Africa Exclusive

Title: Akon on Lighting Africa - BBC Africa Exclusive
Runtime: 3:43
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Akon is well known for his music, but his new project for Africa is gathering momentum.
The Senegalese born musician is hoping to bring electricity to 600 million people across Africa through his "lighting Africa" project. Well, I caught up with him over the weekend and began by asking how far he's gone with the project

Bongani Khumalo: Why I got dropped from Tottenham Hotspur

Title: Bongani Khumalo: Why I got dropped from Tottenham Hotspur
Runtime: 2:00
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: What should a professional football player consider before moving clubs?
Former Bafana Bafana captain Bongani Khumalo who signed for Tottenham Hotspur Football Club after the 2010 World Cup in South Africa has some advice.
He says the focus should not only be on financial gains. The defender who struggled with injuries during his stint at the north-London club has since returned to his former South African club SuperSport United.

South African pop star Penny Penny reborn in clubs of LA

Title: South African pop star Penny Penny reborn in clubs of LA
Runtime: 4:50
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Have you ever wondered what happens to pop stars after their fame has faded?

In 1994 Giyani Kulani was working as a cleaner in a South African recording studio when he persuaded the producer to let him sing on a track.

The song they made became a huge hit turning Kulani into a superstar known across Africa by his nickname, Penny Penny.

A few years later, record sales dried up and Penny Penny swapped the studio for politics, becoming a local councillor.

Recently things changed again when he received a phone call from Los Angeles.

Penny Penny told his story to BBC News.

Video journalist: Christian Parkinson

TANZANIA - Why women marry women in Mara region

Title: TANZANIA - Why women marry women in Mara region
Runtime: 0:41
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Marriages of convenience happen all over the world - and for many different reasons.
In Tarime, Mara region in the northern corner of Tanzania, an age-old tradition involves women marrying women.
This alternative family structure - known as Nyumba Nthobu - has adapted to modern times.
A report from Tulanana Bohela.

Title: BBC POP UP KENYA - NAIROBI TOUR
Runtime: 2:26
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Our travelling bureau BBC Pop Up has been in Kenya for the past several weeks, covering stories recommended to them by their viewers.
Now that Nairobi is returning to normal after US President Barack Obama's recent trip to the country, BBC reporter and Nairobi resident Michael Kaloki is taking a journey around some of his favourite places in the city.

The artist who 'paints' with recycled plastic

Title: The artist who 'paints' with recycled plastic
Runtime: 3:06
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The materials needed to make art can be expensive, too expensive for some.
But one artist in South Africa has found away to combine his artistic passion and his love of recycling. Mbongeni Buthelezi collects plastic bags from the streets around his Johannesburg studio and melts them to create a unique kind of art - he calls it "plastic fantastic".

Video journalist: Christian Parkinson

Kenyan 'killer brew' addicts losing both alcohol and private parts

Title: Kenyan 'killer brew' addicts losing both alcohol and private parts
Runtime: 5:37
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Authorities in Kenya are cracking down on illicitly brewed alcohol following a recent spate of deaths.

Homemade alcohol, sometimes called "killer brew", is popular among poorer Kenyans in central parts of the country.

Addiction is having a devastating impact on many communities and, as BBC Pop Up discovered, some wives have been driven to desperate measures.

Produced by the BBC's Christian Parkinson

Kenya: A guide to the land of 68 languages

Title: Kenya: A guide to the land of 68 languages
Runtime: 2:51
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Kenya is the land of languages - 68 of them to be precise (although one is extinct).
English and Kiswahili are the principal languages, but the country has dozens of ethnic groups, most of which have their own dialects.
The diversity is particularly apparent in Kibera, one of the largest slums in Africa, where BBC Pop Up also found young people using a form of slang called Sheng.

BBC Pop Up filmed this story after it was suggested by a member of the audience.

Produced by the BBC's Chris Parkinson

BBC Pop Up: Kenyan entrepreneurs hoping to be next Steve Jobs

Title: BBC Pop Up: Kenyan entrepreneurs hoping to be next Steve Jobs
Runtime: 3:07
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Nairobi is widely regarded as a hotbed of tech innovation. But what makes Kenya's capital so special?

US president Barack Obama recently attended the Global Entrepreneurship Summit in the city, BBC Pop Up visited one local start-up trying its best to make the lives of commuters less stressful.

BBC Pop Up is the BBC's travelling bureau that films your story ideas.

Video journalist: Christian Parkinson

Tribute to Komla Dumor by his former BBC colleagues

Title: Tribute to Komla Dumor by his former BBC colleagues
Runtime: 2:21
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Komla Dumor was an exceptional Ghanaian broadcaster who in his short life made an extraordinary impact - in Ghana, in Africa and around the world. He represented a confident, savvy and entrepreneurial side of Africa.
Through his tenacious journalism and compelling storytelling, Komla Dumor worked tirelessly to bring a more nuanced African narrative to the world.

Nancy Kacungira: BBC Komla Dumor Award Winner

Title: Nancy Kacungira: BBC Komla Dumor Award Winner
Runtime: 0:52
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: A Ugandan journalist with a background as an entrepreneur, radio, TV reporter and presenter has won the first BBC World News Komla Dumor Award.

Nancy Kacungira, a television anchor for Kenya's KTN television channel, was selected from nearly 200 applicants.

African prints in London Liverpool Street - Part 2

Title: African prints in London Liverpool Street - Part 2
Runtime: 2:29
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Petticoat Lane in the heart of the UK's capital, London, has been the home of African fashion for over five decades.
West Africans even travel to London for their cloth.
It is also a place where BBC Africa's Uwa Nnachi and Genevieve Sagno used to go as children with their parents to buy African cloth. They went back as part of our fashion series to see if things have changed and whether it's still the place to get your favourite African dress.

African prints in London Liverpool Street - Part 1

Title: African prints in London Liverpool Street - Part 1
Runtime: 1:53
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Petticoat Lane in the heart of the UK's capital, London, has been the home of African fashion for over five decades.
West Africans even travel to London for their cloth.
It is also a place where BBC Africa's Uwa Nnachi and Genevieve Sagno used to go as children with their parents to buy African cloth. They went back as part of our fashion series to see if things have changed and whether it's still the place to get your favourite African dress.

US President Barack Obama arrives in Kenya on Air Force One

Title: US President Barack Obama arrives in Kenya on Air Force One
Runtime: 0:39
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Barack Obama arrives in Kenya on the first visit to his ancestral home as serving US president with the focus on security, trade and rights.

Guest vlog: The Curly Cockney | Mixed Race Hair | Identity | My Hair Journey

Title: Guest vlog: The Curly Cockney | Mixed Race Hair | Identity | My Hair Journey
Runtime: 2:14
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: UK vlogger Jade Reynolds (aka The Curly Cockney) reveals the pressures of growing up with mixed race hair - and how going natural helped her embrace the African side of her identity. #HairTalks

Focus on Africa: Marlene Abuah on African hair and identity

Title: Focus on Africa: Marlene Abuah on African hair and identity
Runtime: 2:47
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Shouldn't it be up to each person to decide what they consider beautiful, what they consider African? Marlene Abuah, Founder of Natural Gloe and contestant on BBC styling competition Hair, talks to Focus On Africa's Sophie Ikenye about identity and hair in Africa.

Part of BBC Africa's #HairTalks season.

Title: Acholi Machon duo from South Sudan
Runtime: 2:17
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: The Acholi Machon (Old Acholi) duo from South Sudan play the likembe, an acoustic thumb piano.

They say their music is inspired by a long line of musicians and a love for their land.

Ahead of their performance at the Womad music festival in the UK, the BBC’s Sophie Ikenye welcomed them at Focus on Africa’s studios in London.

They played their song Acholi Kabedobe (Acholi Land Is A Good Place) from their 2014 album Lapwong (Freedom Fighters).

Natural vs Relaxed: Why do people judge me by my hair?

Title: Natural vs Relaxed: Why do people judge me by my hair?
Runtime: 3:31
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: How should African women wear their hair? There is a debate raging at the moment: Natural hair v chemically straightened hair - commonly known as relaxed hair.

While chemical relaxers remain popular, there is a movement to promote afros and hairstyles that are considered by some to be more African.

The BBC's Pumza Fihlani in Johannesburg looks at the politics around black hair. #HairTalks

Makadem from Kenya on Bengla and Ohangla music

Title: Makadem from Kenya on Bengla and Ohangla music
Runtime: 6:25
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: Kenya’s Makadem, also called the Ohanglaman, is known for his fusion of the Benga and Ohangla music.

Here he speaks about his music with Focus on Africa’s Sophie Ikenye and plays his nyatiti.

BBC Africa | #HairTalks | Sophie Ikenye: "I've had this haircut since 1996!"

Title: BBC Africa | #HairTalks | Sophie Ikenye: "I've had this haircut since 1996!"
Runtime: 1:06
Date posted: 11 years ago
Description: "I've had this haircut since 1996/1997, so this is the only hairstyle I've known for a very, very long time!"

As part of BBC Africa's #HairTalks special series, Focus on Africa presenter Sophie Ikenye talks about why it's all about the fringe. #HairConfessions #WhatDoesYourHairSayAboutYou

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