BBC Africa
Protesters set fire to Burkina Faso parliament
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- Protesters set fire to Burkina Faso parliament
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- 0:16
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 4:19
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 4:19
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 1:59
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 0:52
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 0:53
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 2:46
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 4:21
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 2:14
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 4:27
- Date posted
- 12 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
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- 9:08
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 1:37
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 1:15
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 4:27
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 4:21
- Date posted
- 12 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
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- 4:06
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 1:46
- Date posted
- 12 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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- 2:40
- Date posted
- 12 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
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- 0:40
- Date posted
- 12 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
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- 0:41
- Date posted
- 12 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.
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- 2:12
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- via YouTube Capture
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- What is Nigeria's image abroad?
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- 47:06
- Date posted
- 13 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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- 2:53
- Date posted
- 13 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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- 3:07
- Date posted
- 13 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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- 0:13
- Date posted
- 13 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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- 2:30
- Date posted
- 13 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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- 51:01
- Date posted
- 13 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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- 2:02
- Date posted
- 13 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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- 1:24
- Date posted
- 13 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
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- 2:10
- Date posted
- 13 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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- 12:57
- Date posted
- 13 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
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- 2013 - the best of Focus on Africa
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- 11:08
- Date posted
- 13 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 one
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- VIDEO: The moment Madiba was laid to rest
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- 1:36
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Nelson Mandela's body has been laid to rest in a family plot, after political and religious leaders paid tribute to South Africa's first black president at a state funeral service.
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- Funeral farewell to Nelson Mandela
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- 1:25
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- The former South African President, Nelson Mandela, is being laid to rest, at his boyhood home of Qunu, in the eastern Cape. The public part of the ceremony is taking place inside a specially constructed marquee, with thousands of mourners, including senior politicians and a number of foreign dignitaries, paying their last respects.
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- Manu Dibango | What is your musical legacy? | Interview aged 80
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- 2:59
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Manu Dibango is the most famous musician from Cameroon and perhaps one of Africa's most dearly loved. Manu Dibango speaks about his legacy, favourite performances and memories through his musical career as a saxophonist.
Born 80 years ago, Manu Dibango started his career in the 1950s, the saxophonist has become a globe-trotting musician, living and regularly performing in France, Belgium, Jamaica, the DR Congo, Ivory Coast and in Cameroon.
His music has provided inspiration to pop stars like the late king of pop Michael Jackson to Rihanna.
He first attained global fame in 1972 when he released Soul Makossa and remained one of the most internationally celebrated African musicians into the mid-1990s.
BBC Africa's Sophie Ikenye asked him which of many, many performances he now finds the most memorable.
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- Nigeria's Goodluck Jonathan mourns Mandela
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- 1:33
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- The Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan has declared three days of national mourning following the death of former South African president Nelson Mandela. He spoke to BBC Africa about the example set for today's African leaders by Mr #Mandela.
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- Eritrea's Ambassador Tesfamichael Gerahtu speaks to the BBC
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- 7:41
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Eritrea's Ambassador to the UK and Ireland responds to allegations that as many as 30,000 Eritreans have been kidnapped and tortured in the Sinai desert over the last four years. He spoke to the BBC's Komla Dumor.
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- Yaya Toure named 2013 BBC African Footballer of the Year
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- 3:30
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Yaya Toure has won the 2013 BBC African Footballer of the Year award.
The Ivory Coast and Manchester City midfielder, who had been nominated in each of the past four years, beat Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, Victor Moses, John Mikel Obi and Jonathan Pitroipa to this year's crown.
The 30-year-old told BBC Africa's Peter Okwoche: "I think I've been nominated for five years in a row and finally winning the award is amazing.
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- FETSUM on music and his Eritrean roots
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- 3:44
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Urban folk singer FETSUM was born in Egypt to Eritrean parents and grew up in Italy and Germany, where he currently lives.
His songs - which combine traditional African rhythms with soul, reggae, folk and rock - bear testimony to that mix of experiences.
He sang one of them, Waitin' for You, from his album The Colors of Hope, accompanied by guitarist Leon Schurz, for the BBC's Focus on Africa.
And he told presenter Komla Dumor more about his life and music.
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- Fetsum | Egypt | BBC Focus on Africa
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- 3:39
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Berlin-based musician Fetsum, of Eritrean origin, sings his autobiographical song "Egypt" - from his album The Colors of Hope - with guitarist Leon Schurz. Fetsum performs Egypt for the BBC World Service's Focus on Africa radio programme. In this guitar and vocals performance, Fetsum shows his soulful musical prowess.
Lyrics:
I was born by a mosque in Egypt
While preachers were crying
Mother couldn't hear my voice
That evening she was deaf at that time
A young girl at the age of seventeen
With ideals in her mind
Passed the torch to the next generation
Giving birth to a child
To her left there were sycamore trees
And there were figs to her right
She would put a cotton veil on my face
Just to keep sands from my eyes
Along the river Nile a myriad of trials
Made tears pour like rain
That's when she whispered humble words
To my ears saying, "Thanks for saving my life"
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- Who will be crowned the 2013 BBC African footballer of the year?
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- 31:25
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Who will be crowned the 2013 BBC African footballer of the year?
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- Candidates for BBC African Footballer of the Year 2013: Jon Obi Mikel
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- 2:34
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- The five candidates for the 2013 BBC African Footballer of the Year award have been revealed.
The nominees are Ivory Coast's Yaya Toure, Nigerians Victor Moses and John Mikel Obi, Burkina Faso's Jonathan Pitroipa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon.
Here is the profile of Jon Obi Mikel
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- Ethiopians demonstrate outside Saudi embassy in London
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- 1:31
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- There's been growing anger among Ethiopians in and outside the country, about the way that some of their compatriots have been treated in Saudi Arabia.
Things came to a head following an ultimatum for illegal migrant workers to leave the country. And there were clashes in Riyadh which led to several deaths last week.
On Monday, there have been demonstrations at Saudi embassies around the world. The BBC Africa's Kasim Kayira went to the one in London.
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- Candidates for BBC African Footballer of the Year 2013: Jonathan Pitroipa
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- 2:23
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- The five candidates for the 2013 BBC African Footballer of the Year award have been revealed.
The nominees are Ivory Coast's Yaya Toure, Nigerians Victor Moses and John Mikel Obi, Burkina Faso's Jonathan Pitroipa and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang of Gabon.
Here is the profile of Jonathan Pitroipa
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- Deaths in the desert
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- 3:14
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Rescue workers have found the bodies of ninety-two people who died in the desert of northern Niger when their vehicles broke down. Most of the victims were women and children and they're thought to have died from thirst. One eyewitness said the corpses were in a severe state of decomposition.
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- Nigeria's Tiwa Savage takes centre stage
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- 2:41
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- It has been a momentous year for Nigerian singer-songwriter Tiwa Savage, who has just released her debut album and been nominated at the Music of Black Origin (Mobo) awards for best African act.
She spoke to BBC Focus on Africa's Sophie Ikenye about how her career has taken centre stage.
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- BBC Africa: Challenges for African women to finding love
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- 39:48
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- BBC Africa: Challenges for African women to finding love
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- Gentleman | Africa Express Rehearsal | Coucou, Tony Allen, Fatou Diawara, Horns, Romeo, Guimba
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- 6:18
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
- Description
- Africa Express at Marseille's Fiesta des Suds 2013 - Rehearsal - 'Gentleman' - Tony Allen, Coucou, Fatoumata Diawara, Express Horns, Romeo Stodart, Guimba Kouyate... Before performing at Africa Express at Marseille's Fiesta des Suds in 2013, we filmed this rehearsal of the track 'Gentleman'.
Video: Manuel Toledo, BBC Africa.
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- Africa Express in Marseille - Reeps One, Kasabian, Seye, Pauli The PSM, Jeff Wootton, Nick Zinner
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- 1:35
- Date posted
- 13 years ago
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- Africa Express at Marseille's Fiesta des Suds 2013 - Rehearsal - Reeps One, Kasabian, Seye, Pauli The PSM, Jeff Wootton, Nick Zinner Video: Manuel Toledo, BBC Africa. This clip was shot with a photo camera in low light. The quality of the image and sound is not perfect but we hope you enjoy it anyway.
