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Africa Express in Bamako - Wade In The Water

Title: Africa Express in Bamako - Wade In The Water
Runtime: 5:54
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description: Africa Express in Bamako - Wade In The Water - Singers: Kankou Kouyate, Olugbenga, Damon Albarn & Brian Eno

Africa Express in Bamako - Kankou Kouyate

Title: Africa Express in Bamako - Kankou Kouyate
Runtime: 8:25
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description: Africa Express in Bamako - Kankou Kouyate

Title: Africa Express in Bamako - Afel Bocoum
Runtime: 2:53
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description: Africa Express in Bamako - Malian singer and guitarist Afel Bocoum performs during a BBC Africa interview

Africa Express in Bamako - Pauli the PSM - Brian Eno recording

Title: Africa Express in Bamako - Pauli the PSM - Brian Eno recording
Runtime: 1:48
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description: Brian Eno recording Pauli the PSM at Bamako's Maison des Jeunes

BBC Africa: Can democracy deliver for Africa?

Title: BBC Africa: Can democracy deliver for Africa?
Runtime: 38:50
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description: BBC Africa: Can democracy deliver for Africa?

Dar es Salaam old and new buildings BBC Africa

Title: Dar es Salaam old and new buildings BBC Africa
Runtime: 2:29
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description: Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's largest and richest city and an economic hub in East Africa. Its name means "haven of peace" and it is known for its picturesque harbour, beautiful beaches and historical buildings. But as the city is developing, so too is the skyline, with some of those old buildings being knocked down to make way for skyscrapers. And not everyone's happy about it, as Focus on Africa's Tulanana Bohela reports.

Ibrahim El Salahi Focus on Africa BBC World

Title: Ibrahim El Salahi Focus on Africa BBC World
Runtime: 2:28
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description: London's Tate Modern is presenting a major retrospective of the Sudanese painter Ibrahim El-Salahi, considered one of the most important exponents of African and Arab Modernism.

The exhibition, called Ibrahim El-Salahi: A Visionary Modernist, was by the Museum for African Art in New York in collaboration with the Tate Modern.

BBC Africa's Sophie Ikenye went to see the show.

(Broadcast on 29 Jul 2013)

Interview with Malawian rapper David Kalilani

Title: Interview with Malawian rapper David Kalilani
Runtime: 2:18
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description

Ten years after the Liberian civil war, is the country on the road to recovery?

Title: Ten years after the Liberian civil war, is the country on the road to recovery?
Runtime: 2:29
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description: Liberia has been marking ten years since the end of its civil war. More than a quarter of a million people died during the conflict, in which former president Charles Taylor was a key player. He is now in prison at the Hague for war crimes committed in neighbouring Sierra Leone. Ghana's former president John Kufuor who helped broker Taylor's removal from Liberia and into exile, says the country has overcome much of the destruction.

As Mozambique's economic star continues to rise which country should they choose India or China?

Title: As Mozambique's economic star continues to rise which country should they choose India or China?
Runtime: 2:15
Date posted: 13 years ago
Description: It's often said that India and China are rivals when it comes to investing in new markets. However, in Africa, the two countries are often not in competition at all. Chinese and Indian businesses tend to chase contracts in completely different sectors of the economy. The BBC's Vineet Khare is in Mozambique looks at the types of business pursued by the two emerging superpowers.

Title: What does Pan-Africanism mean to you ?
Runtime: 3:10
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: As the African Union prepares to celebrate its 50th anniversary the BBC's Peter Okwoche asks his colleagues at the BBC Africa what Pan-Africanism means to them.

How did forty patients escape from Kenya's largest mental health institution ?

Title: How did forty patients escape from Kenya's largest mental health institution ?
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A police search is underway across Nairobi for a group of patients who've escaped from the Mathari Mental Hospital. They overpowered guards yesterday after a protest over the medication they'd been receiving. Conditions inside Kenya's largest mental health facility have been criticised in the past, leading to calls for an investigation into alleged human rights abuses. Focus on Africa's Anne Soy has been following the story from Nairobi.

Senegal's female wrestlers fighting prejudice

Title: Senegal's female wrestlers fighting prejudice
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: In the west African country of Senegal, traditional wrestling is as big as football. However, women rarely get a chance to enter the arena. In Casamance, in the small village of Diembering, the Ricefields' festival is one of the rare occasions that you can watch ladies try to bring each other to the ground. Laeila Adjovi reports from Casamance

Malawi's President Joyce Banda says her country should be the only judge of her record

Title: Malawi's President Joyce Banda says her country should be the only judge of her record
Runtime: 2:18
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Exactly a year ago today, Malawi's then president Bingu wa Mutharika collapsed suddenly in his office. He died minutes later on his way to hospital. His death came when his popularity was at its lowest ebb. The economy was in bad shape and things were also falling apart on the political front. The current President Joyce Banda's first challenges was trying to fix the country's ailing finances. She allowed a 49 % currency devaluation on the advice of the International Monetary Fund. The price of goods and services shot up. Komla Dumor sat down with her on a recent visit to the UK, and began by asking just how much influence external players like the IMF may have over Malawi's economy.

Ghana arrests Chinese suspects in illegal mining crackdown

Title: Ghana arrests Chinese suspects in illegal mining crackdown
Runtime: 2:15
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Well while Chinese money is welcome. It looks like - in certain circumstances - some workers are not. At least 125 Chinese nationals involved in small-scale gold mining in Ghana are being held in custody by the country's immigration authorities. They were arrested for a breach of Ghanaian law, prohibiting foreigners from small-scale mining. The BBC's Akwasi Sarpong reports.

ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda answers your questions on Bosco Ntaganda and Kenyan cases

Title: ICC Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda answers your questions on Bosco Ntaganda and Kenyan cases
Runtime: 8:39
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: International Criminal Court Prosecutor, Fatou Bensouda says it's a good day for victims in the Democratic Republic of Congo - after the transfer of rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda to the Hague and earlier this week we saw efforts by lawyers of Kenya's president-elect, Uhuru Kenyatta, to have his ICC case reviewed. And there've been questions over the witnesses in the cases relating to Kenya's post-election violence in early 2008. In an exclusive interview with the BBC's Anna Holligan - the ICC Prosecutor began by explaining the significance of Ntaganda's surrender - for the Congolese people.

Twitter row erupts between Nigerian and Kenyan football fans

Title: Twitter row erupts between Nigerian and Kenyan football fans
Runtime: 3:13
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Kenyans and Nigerians have been engaged in a Twitter battle following reports that Kenya's national football team the Harambee Stars had been denied a proper training ground. The Kenyans also complained about their hotel accommodation. The Nigerian Super Eagles are the reigning African champions.

Remembering Nigerian author Chinua Achebe

Title: Remembering Nigerian author Chinua Achebe
Runtime: 4:15
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The acclaimed Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe has died at the age of eighty-two. A statement released on behalf of his family described Chinua Achebe as one of the great literary voices of his time, whose wisdom was an inspiration to all who knew him. The Nigerian president Goodluck Jonathan said Professor Achebe would live forever in the hearts and minds of present and future generations. BBC's Bilkisu discusses his legacy with Stephen Sackur

Find out why women in Tanzania are addicted to soil

Title: Find out why women in Tanzania are addicted to soil
Runtime: 3:02
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Dirt is a common craving in many parts of Africa - especially amongst pregnant women who need the nutrients contained within the soil. In Tanzania the special clay soil is known as "udongo wa pemba", Swahili for "The Soil of Pemba". Focus on Africa's Tulanana Bohela travelled specially to the hills of Morogoro to find out what dirt really tastes like...but her journey begins in a famous market in Dar Es Salaam.

BBC's Kassim Kayira answers your questions about Ntaganda's surrender

Title: BBC's Kassim Kayira answers your questions about Ntaganda's surrender
Runtime: 3:06
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: BBC's Kassim Kayira, our Great Lakes expert joins answers BBC Africa Facebook followers questions about Ntaganda's surrender and its implications

Title: Catholics in Ghana
Runtime: 2:57
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Ghanaian cardinal Peter Turkson was considered Africa's main candidate for Pope.

In his country, however, many believe that Catholicism is under threat from the growing appeal of Pentecostal churches.

BBC Africa's Akwasi Sarpong sent this report from Accra.

Title: Rupiah Banda interview
Runtime: 3:13
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Zambia's former President, Rupiah Banda, is leading the U.S.-based Carter Center's election observation mission to Kenya. He spoke to BBC Africa's Sophie Ikenye about the polls.

Tony Blair speaks to BBC Africa on Rwanda

Title: Tony Blair speaks to BBC Africa on Rwanda
Runtime: 13:14
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Over the past year, Rwanda's government has been accused of involvement in the M23 rebel conflict in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo. Accusations made in a report by a UN group of experts led to widespread condemnation of Rwanda, and to some countries withdrawing aid. Tony Blair, the UK's former Prime Minister and a long-time ally of Rwanda's President Paul Kagame, has written an article, entitled 'Stand by Rwanda'. It calls on the international community to rethink that withdrawal of aid. So is he casting doubt on that UN report? BBC Africa's Komla Dumor asked him that, when Mr Blair came into our studios in London.

Title: Kisumu, Kenya
Runtime: 2:49
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Many people have been left emotionally scarred in Kenya after the scenes of five years ago when more than 1,000 people were killed and around 300,000 were forced to leave their homes, following the disputed elections. The city of Kisumu, in the west of the country, was one of the worst affected by the bloodshed. Kisumu is home to prime minister and presidential contender for next week's elections, Raila Odinga. Attempts have been made there to encourage reconciliation amongst the city's different ethnic communities but as BBC Africa's Anne Mawathe reports many people are still gripped by fear.

Joseph Yobo, captain of the Nigeria's Super Eagles

Title: Joseph Yobo, captain of the Nigeria's Super Eagles
Runtime: 0:05
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Joseph Yobo, captain of the Nigeria's Super Eagles, has a message: Love African Football!

Title: Johannesburg tour
Runtime: 2:43
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Africa Cup of Nations opens this weekend in Johannesburg, South Africa, and many fans who will be travelling there will be wondering how they will move around and what to expect.

The BBC's Peter Okwoche is there for the first time and sent this report to our Focus on Africa TV programme.

Title: Africa Cup of Nations - BBC Africa
Runtime: 0:35
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The Africa Cup of Nations on the BBC begins 19 January 2013. Love African football!

Title: Happy New Year from BBC Africa
Runtime: 3:14
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: It's been a pleasure and a privilege for us to bring you our mix of news, current affairs and discussion from all over Africa. We thank you for support, your comments and engagement. The BBC Africa team wishes you a very happy new year. We'll see you in 2013 !

Title: KING OF THE JUGGLE?
Runtime: 1:15
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: If you've been a regular viewer of Focus of Africa, you might have heard Peter Okwoche not-so-camouflaged digs at our presenter Komla Dumor about what sports he can play and how well he can. Well like any man confident in his abilities, Komla dared me to a game of Keepie Uppie. Let me just say it didn't go down well for one of them.

Will the government of the Central African Republic seek dialogue with the rebel coalition?

Title: Will the government of the Central African Republic seek dialogue with the rebel coalition?
Runtime: 1:40
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: The government of the Central African Republic says its prepared for dialogue with
a rebel coalition on condition the fighters first pull out of towns they have seized over the past two weeks. The rebels captured a sixth town Bambari on Sunday. Bambari is an important crossroad between diamond mines and routes to the east, and is the closest they have reached to the capital Bangui. Last week the rebels known as the Seleka coalition seized Bria, another important diamond mining area.The BBC's Thomas Fessy reports

Zambian captain Christopher Katongo collects 2012 BBC African Footballer of Year trophy

Title: Zambian captain Christopher Katongo collects 2012 BBC African Footballer of Year trophy
Runtime: 2:03
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Christopher Katongo has won the 2012 BBC African Footballer of the Year award.
The 30-year-old Zambia captain beat off competition from Demba Ba, Didier Drogba, Younes Belhanda and Yaya Toure to become the first winner from southern Africa in the history of the award.
Katongo told BBC Sport: "This is a fantastic moment for me. I thank the people who voted for me. It is something I will never forget in my career.
"This means a lot for the young people and the young players who look up to me. I could not have achieved this without the support of my team-mates."

Nana Akufo Addo makes his final case for votes ahead of Friday's presidential election.

Title: Nana Akufo Addo makes his final case for votes ahead of Friday's presidential election.
Runtime: 3:31
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Ghana holds general elections this Friday, in what's expected to be a very tight Presidential race. The Ghanaian government has rejected parts of a report by a UN panel in October, which suggested that exiles supporting Ivory Coast's former President Laurent Gbagbo have established a base in the country to destabilize the current Ivorian government. Meanwhile, West African countries are contemplating military action against the Islamic militants in Northern Mali. Ghana's former Foreign Minister Nana Akuffo-Addo is the leader of his country's main opposition New Patriotic Party. Focus on Africa's Akwesi Sarpong asked Mr Akuffo-Addo if Ghana should commit troops to fighting the militants in Mali.

John Mahama makes his final case for votes ahead of Friday's presidential election.

Title: John Mahama makes his final case for votes ahead of Friday's presidential election.
Runtime: 3:44
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: President John Mahama who was sworn-in in July when the-then president John Atta Mills died suddenly. Our correspondent Akwasi Sarpong asked him what he had to offer the electorate.

Title: How Tanzania avoided tribalism
Runtime: 2:33
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Many African countries experience violence and intimidation fuelled by tribalism. But Tanzania seems to be an exception. Despite having more than 100 ethnic groups and bordering eight countries, it has succeeded in overcoming tribal tensions in a region where some neighbours have failed to do so. The BBC's Tulanana Bohela reports from Dar Es Salaam.

The challenges facing Nigerian women on their way to the top

Title: The challenges facing Nigerian women on their way to the top
Runtime: 2:22
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Nigeria is Africa's most populous country, and as such you'd perhaps think that the law of averages would mean that Nigerian women and girls in the country would be well represented in the fields of politics, business and education. But you'd be wrong. A recent Gender Equality Index published by the World Economic Forum showed the country lags behind other nations on the continent in this regard. Focus On Africa's Tomi Oladipo in Lagos reports

Title: Discover Zimbabwe's new Jazz queen
Runtime: 3:00
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Now if you're a lover of jazz you may well have heard of this artiste : Prudence Katomeni Mbofana. The Zimbabwean singer's self titled album "Prudence"getting a lot of air play right now particularly in Southern Africa with its strong inspirational message and motivational lyrics. Well the BBC's Bola Mosuro sat down with the lady herself as she recently passed through London. They began by talking about some of the musical influences behind her brand of Jazz

Why Africans don't need to help the freezing Norwegians

Title: Why Africans don't need to help the freezing Norwegians
Runtime: 2:02
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Those of you watching outside Africa may well have an image of a a continent riddled with conflict, disease, corruption, poverty, and brutal dictatorships. But that stereotypical negative picture is one that a group of South African students -- along with an aid agency in Norway -- is challenging. They've turned the tables -- by producing a fictional Christmas appeal video -- that portrays Norway as a bitterly cold country full of freezing people in need. And it's Africans rushing to their aid. Focus on Africa's Alex Jakana has more #africafornorway

Ghana department store collapses in Accra

Title: Ghana department store collapses in Accra
Runtime: 0:59
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A multi-storey department store has collapsed in Ghana's capital, Accra, with many people believed to be trapped inside. Rescue efforts are under way, with officials confirming that two people died when the Melcom store collapsed. The BBC's Sammy Darko, who is at the scene, says five people have been pulled out of the rubble so far.

Why immigration is proving to be a hot button issue in the upcoming US election

Title: Why immigration is proving to be a hot button issue in the upcoming US election
Runtime: 2:42
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Well one of the hot topics in the election campaign is immigration. BBC Africa's Zuhura Yunus has been to Harlem in New York -- home to a large African-American population.

Kenya's matatus may be the cheapest way to get around, but are they the safest?

Title: Kenya's matatus may be the cheapest way to get around, but are they the safest?
Runtime: 2:21
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: They are known as the Kings of the Road. The Matatu or mini bus is the most common form of public transport in Kenya. They are a cheap way to get around but they also have a reputation for being dangerous to travel in, as many of the drivers have little training and often have a blatant disregard for traffic laws. But as the BBC's Laeila Adjovi reports from Nairobi, some Matatu drivers are now trying to change the perception of their profession.

Title: Mulele Matondo Afrika
Runtime: 1:29
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: DR Congo musician Mulele Matondo Afrika performs his song Ba Koko Nabiso Ya Yambo during an interview for the BBC World Service's Focus on Africa programme.

In the interview he tells BBC Africa's presenter David Amanor about the political and social dimensions of his debut album, Prophecy.

Title: BBC Africa Jally Kebba Susso
Runtime: 4:32
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Gambian griot and kora player Jally Kebba Susso performing the title song from his debut album, Malaye Warr. He was interviewed by presenter David Amanor for BBC Africa's Focus on Africa radio programme on 15 October 2012.

In the album, released earlier this month, he plays with his band Manding Sabu:

Jon Speedy -- lead guitar (U.K), Kyazi Lugangira -- guitar & vocal (Tanzania/U.K), Bumi Thomas -- vocal (Nigeria/U.K), Matteo Grassi -- bass (Italy) & Jules Weishaupt -- drums (France).

BBC Africa uncovers the abuses in Ghana's mental health institutions.

Title: BBC Africa uncovers the abuses in Ghana's mental health institutions.
Runtime: 2:39
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Focus on Africa has uncovered a number of abuses in a mental health institution in the capital, Accra. We gained exclusive access to one of the institutions listed in a Human Rights Watch report released earlier this week, which drew attention to the horrific conditions in three care homes in Ghana. The report described patients going without food, being kept behind bars, and subjected to degrading physical treatment.

Empowering women in Africa through entrepreneurship. A Malawian shows us how -- through farming.

Title: Empowering women in Africa through entrepreneurship. A Malawian shows us how -- through farming.
Runtime: 2:35
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Are women winning the battle for Power in Africa? That's the subject under discussion in this month's BBC Africa Debate on World Service Radio.The programme is coming from Malawi.The country is led by Joyce Banda - but will her position as President encourage other women on the continent to strive for the top? Campaigners say that getting women to come to the fore in society has to start at a grassroots level. The BBC'S Audrey Brown in Malawi is hosting the debate. She's been talking to one businesswoman who aims to do just that.

Title: African Women in Tech chat
Runtime: 23:16
Date posted: 14 years ago
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Runtime: 2:20
Date posted: 14 years ago
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The truth behind the Swahili coastal civilisation

Title: The truth behind the Swahili coastal civilisation
Runtime: 2:30
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: A team led by a Tanzanian archaeologist has challenged long held beliefs that Swahili coast civilisation - in East Africa, was heavily influenced by outsiders who arrived to trade with the local communities. After excavating an extensive cave just outside Zanzibar, he has discovered evidence of settlements, animal domestication. Hassan Mhelela has visited the cave and sent us this report.

Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says Africa is paying for the fall of Gaddafi

Title: Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo says Africa is paying for the fall of Gaddafi
Runtime: 2:52
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Former Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo has told Focus on Africa the entire sub continent is paying the price for the fall of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi.

Coming up on BBC Focus on Africa radio at 15:00GMT

Title: Coming up on BBC Focus on Africa radio at 15:00GMT
Runtime: 0:51
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Here are some of the stories that we're going to have in our Focus on Africa radio programme on Thursday 9th August at 15:00 GMT.

Mozambican president, Armando Guebuza calls a US report into its major ports 'fabricated

Title: Mozambican president, Armando Guebuza calls a US report into its major ports 'fabricated
Runtime: 2:56
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Mozambican president, Armando Guebuza calls a US report into its major ports 'fabricated'. He was speaking to BBC's Sophie Ikenye:

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