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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:

Nigerian striker Kanu Nwankwo tells us why football is important to him

Title: Nigerian striker Kanu Nwankwo tells us why football is important to him
Runtime: 1:53
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: One man who knows what it means to win gold at this event is Nigerian striker Nwankwo Kanu. In 1996 he led his country to gold in the Olympics. This year he's also one of the more than eight thousand people that have carried the Olympic torch. BBC Newsday's Bola Mosuro asked him what it was like to be an Olympic torch bearer

Nigeria's growing middle class have an appetite for luxury

Title: Nigeria's growing middle class have an appetite for luxury
Runtime: 2:19
Date posted: 14 years ago
Description: Some African economies have continued to grow rapidly even during the global downturn. But long before then,Nigerians have been known for their love for glamour and big spending. It's not unheard of for a champagne bottle to cost an unbelievable amount. So just what is it about Nigerians and luxury brands?

Title: What's Newsday?
Runtime: 3:29
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: From next week, Monday 23 July, mornings with the BBC World Service just gets better with the launch of the BBC's new flagship morning show Newsday. Newsday will broadcast for five and a half hours every Monday to Friday from 0200GMT-07300G...MT and is aimed at the large BBC audiences in Africa and around the world. So put the date in your calendar and spend your mornings with Bola, Paul, Lawrence, Julian , Nula and a special African welcome to our new presenter Lerato Mbele

Title: Driving change in South Sudan
Runtime: 2:09
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The world's newest country South Sudan is finding itself faced with even basic problems such as driving regulations. We sent Focus on Africa's correspondent in Juba, Nyambura Wambugu on the road to look at challenges driving South Sudan.

Title: Recycled art from Senegal
Runtime: 2:25
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: When you think about recycling, you probably think of rubbish. And almost certainly not always about art. But some people in the Senegalese capital, Dakar are turning trash into other people's treasure. Laeila Adjovi reports from Dakar

Femi Kuti speaks to BBC Focus on Africa about the violence in Northern Nigeria

Title: Femi Kuti speaks to BBC Focus on Africa about the violence in Northern Nigeria
Runtime: 3:31
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Sophie Ikenye caught up with Nigerian musician Femi Kuti, son of the late Fela Kuti. Like his father, Femi speaks out on politics and social issues. Sophie began by asking him whether he thinks the Nigerian government can deal with the insecurity in the north.

Title: BBC Focus On Africa TV
Runtime: 0:21
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Coming up on Focus on Africa TV today : Child labour and abuse in coco farming. The world's biggest food company, Nestle, says the use of child labour went against everything it stood for.

Coming up on Focus on Africa TV with Komla Dumor at 17:30 GMT

Title: Coming up on Focus on Africa TV with Komla Dumor at 17:30 GMT
Runtime: 0:21
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: The battle for Supremacy in Northern Mali
We examine the wider security implications of the fighting between Islamist militants and Tuareg Rebels.

Title: BBC Africa does Azonto
Runtime: 1:16
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Watch the BBC Focus on Africa TV team do Azonto . Yes Alex teaches Komla, Sophie, Peter, Chaku,Mariam, Bilkisu and the entire team how to Azonto. So don't be shy!!!! Send us your videos of you doing the Azonto and we'll play some of them on BBC Focus on Africa TV. Email africa@bbc.co.uk or post them on our facebook page. Come on!!! If we can do it SO CAN YOU!!!!! — with Komla Dumor.

What do people from Venezuela think of Africa:

Title: What do people from Venezuela think of Africa:
Runtime: 1:02
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description

Title: What do people from USA think of Africa
Runtime: 1:35
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: Are you surpr

A new gallery, Tiwani Contemporary, opens in London focusing on contemporary African

Title: A new gallery, Tiwani Contemporary, opens in London focusing on contemporary African
Runtime: 2:14
Date posted: 15 years ago
Description: A new gallery which has opened in London. Tiwani focuses on contemporary African art in all its forms. It's run in partnership with the Centre for Contemporary Art in Lagos and its first exhibition - The Tie That Binds Us - showcases the work of five prominent Nigerian artists. It includes not only paint-on-canvas and photo journalism but a range of sculpture and one collection which uses sound and video to portray the colorful chaos of Lagos city. BBC Africa 's Mary Morgan went along to meet one of the artists

Title: Muntu Valdo - Djongo
Runtime: 3:41
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Musician Muntu Valdo plays what has been dubbed "Sawa blues", so named because he hails from the Sawa community of Cameroon's coastal region.

He says his new album, The One and The Many, perfectly describes his act, as he performs solo on stage but with the sound of a big band.

On this track Muntu Valdo sings acapella while recording and looping his vocal harmionies. Bliss

Title: Muntu Valdo - Musseing
Runtime: 6:16
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Musician Muntu Valdo plays what has been dubbed "Sawa blues", so named because he hails from the Sawa community of Cameroon's coastal region.

He says his new album, The One and The Many, perfectly describes his act, as he performs solo on stage but with the sound of a big band.

With a guitar in hand, a harmonica at his lips and a deck of pedals - he calls them his "sorcerers" - at his feet, he told the BBC's Network Africa programme about his magic formula.

Title: Sona Jobarteh - Jarabi
Runtime: 5:37
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Sona Jobarteh hails from a long West African tradition of Griots and kora players; her grandfather was the master Griot Amadu Bansang Jobarteh.

Creating her own history, she has broken from the male-dominated kora tradition to become the family's first female virtuoso of the instrument.

Here Sona Jobarteh performs the traditional Malian song, Jarabi, accompanied by Femi Temowo on guitar and percussionist Robert Fordjour.

Title: Sona Jobarteh - Saya
Runtime: 3:30
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Sona Jobarteh hails from a long West African tradition of Griots and kora players; her grandfather was the master Griot Amadu Bansang Jobarteh.
With a debut album and a film score already available, Sona is working on tracks for her second album release, Fasiya. She came to Bush House to perform a video session for BBC Network Africa. On this track Sona Jobarteh plays acoustic guitar and is accompanied by Femi Temowo on electric guitar and Robert Fordjour on percussion.

Mahamat Saleh Haroun discusses 'A Screaming Man' on BBC Network Africa

Title: Mahamat Saleh Haroun discusses 'A Screaming Man' on BBC Network Africa
Runtime: 9:01
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: The film Un Homme Qui Crie or 'A Screaming Man' by multi-award winning director Mahamat Saleh Haroun, had its UK premiere in London in October 2010.

The film, about a father who loses his job as a swimming pool attendant in favour of his son, won the prestigious Jury Prize at the 2010 Cannes Festival.

It is set against the backdrop of rebel attacks and civil conflict in Chad, which delves deep into the psychology of jealousy and the father-son relationship.

Mahamat Saleh Haroun came into our studios and spoke to BBC Network Africa's Celeste Hicks.

Title: M3nsa - Anaa
Runtime: 4:43
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: No 1 Mango Street is the latest album release from Ghanaian rapper, M3nsa.

Together with friend and collaborator, Wanlov the Kubolor, M3nsa came to our Bush House studios to perform a Network Africa video session.

He singss 'Anaa' from the new album, accompanied by Wanlov on backing vocals and Alex Hunter on acoustic guitar.

Wanlov the Kubolor - Human Being (Just Like You)

Title: Wanlov the Kubolor - Human Being (Just Like You)
Runtime: 4:51
Date posted: 16 years ago
Description: Ghana's self-dubbed 'African Gypsy', Wanlov the Kubolor has worked for a long time with his friend and fellow musician, M3nsa.

Wanlov performs 'Human Being (Just Like You)' from his 2007 Green Card album accompanied by M3nsa on backing vocals and Alex Hunter on acoustic guitar.

Title: Oyinkansola
Runtime: 4:06
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Describing herself as a folk singer, Lagos-based Oyinkansola takes her cue from American singer-songwriters.

When the BBC's Africa Kicks bus arrived in Lagos we asked her to perform a Network Africa video session for us.

This track is a plea to her father to take her music seriously because it is the only thing that really makes her happy.

Title: Queen Nadeija - Saoupio
Runtime: 4:08
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: As part of the the BBC's Africa Kicks trip to West Africa we took the Network Africa video sessions on location.

Our first stop was Abidjan, the commercial and cultural capital of Ivory Coast.

Singer Queen Nadeija performs with her band all over the city.

We met her there when she came to perform backing vocals with renown reggae artist, Kajeem.

She performed the Delta Group track, Saoupio, for us on a balcony downtown, accompanied by Adama Diabaté on guitar.

Title: Irene Logan - Baby
Runtime: 3:24
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Reggae, hiplife and r&b all have their place in Ghana's eclectic music scene.

Singer Irene Logan describes her style as r&b afro pop.

She won a national television talent competition two years ago and after a short period of collaboration with the show's runner up, Jane Awindor as Irene and Jane, Irene struck out on her own.

Already one album to the good, she is now working on her sophomore release which has the working title 'Rebirth'.

At just 26, talk of rebirth may seem premature but she has already covered a lot of ground and the distance that she wants to travel is far.

We met her in Accra when the BBC Africa Kicks bus rolled into town.

There we recorded a Network Africa video session of her acapella performance of the track 'Baby' from her upcoming album. She is accompanied by her music director, Joshua Ugboma.

Title: Kajeem - Demain C'est Aujourd'hui
Runtime: 3:10
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Ivory Coast's cultural capital, Abidjan is famous for its thriving music scene thanks to bands such as Alpha Blondy, Tiken Jah Fakoly or reggae artist Kajeem.

When the Africa Kicks bus rolled into town, the BBC asked Kajeem to record a special Network Africa video session.

He performs 'Demain C'est Aujourd'hui' with Adama Diabaté on guitar and Nadege Kablan on backing vocals.

Aminatta Forna discusses her book The Memory of Love on BBC WS Africa (part 2)

Title: Aminatta Forna discusses her book The Memory of Love on BBC WS Africa (part 2)
Runtime: 3:29
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The Memory of Love is the latest novel of Sierra Leonean and Scottish writer Aminatta Forna, she visited Bush House studios for a chat with the BBC's Bola Mosuro. Part two - Oppression and resistance The tortuous events of Sierra Leone's history have dominated Forna's writing. She is the daughter of a former Sierra Leonean cabinet minister and dissident, murdered by the state in 1975.

And people's reaction to oppression is a major theme through The Memory of Love and Aminatta Forna's previous works. In this second part of the interview Bola Mosuro asks the author about the audience that she has in mind when she is writing her books.

Aminatta Forna discusses her book The Memory of Love on BBC WS Africa (part 1)

Title: Aminatta Forna discusses her book The Memory of Love on BBC WS Africa (part 1)
Runtime: 6:11
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The Memory of Love is the latest novel of Sierra Leonean and Scottish writer Aminatta Forna, she visited Bush House studios for a chat with the BBC's Bola Mosuro.

Part one - Confronting the past

The lives of the three central characters are interwoven; Elias Cole is an old history professor who taught at a Freetown university before and after Sierra Leone's first coup in 1969.

Kai Mansaray is dedicated to his profession at Freetown's Central Hospital, but plagued by memories of life before and during the civil war which began in 1991.

He bonds with British psychologist, Adrian who is running from his own demons in the UK.

South African football captain Aaron Mokoena

Title: South African football captain Aaron Mokoena
Runtime: 5:29
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Aaron Mokoena is the captain of the Fifa World Cup 2010 host nation side, Bafana Bafana.

There's been a lot of speculation about whether South Africa will make it through to the knock-out stages of the World Cup despite it being on their home soil.

The hosts play Mexico, Uruguay and France in Group A.

When Aaron visited our studios in Bush House, BBC Fast Track's Peter Okwoche asked him about what it means for Africa to host this major tournament and how he rates his team's chances.

Title: Amira Kheir - Kullu Wahid
Runtime: 4:26
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The Network Africa video sessions continue with this stunning performance from London-based Sudanese-Italian singer, Amira Kheir at our Bush House studios.

She writes and performs in Arabic seeking to reinterpret traditional Sudanese music with the more contemporary musical influences in her life.

Accompanied by Anna Wright on kora, this is Kullu Wahid.

Title: Amira Kheir - Mashena
Runtime: 4:13
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: The Network Africa video sessions continue with this stunning performance from London-based Sudanese-Italian singer, Amira Kheir at our Bush House studios.

She writes and performs in Arabic seeking to reinterpret traditional Sudanese music with the more contemporary musical influences in her life.

Accompanied by Iain McLeod on guitar and Anna Wright on kora, she performs the beautiful Mashena, meaning 'On our way'.

Cheick Tidiane Seck and friends - Nebe N'makoun.

Title: Cheick Tidiane Seck and friends - Nebe N'makoun.
Runtime: 5:15
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: We met Cheick Tidiane on the festival charter flight from Bamako to Timbuktu.

A towering figure on the Malian music scene; keyboardist, composer, and performer and arranger of popular and traditional Malian music. He is a prolific and experienced traditional musician with many international musical collaborations under his belt.

He arrived at the festival accompanied by a clutch of home-grown, African and international musical talents to perform at the grande finale of the festival on Saturday night with The Cheick Tidiane Seck jam session.

The small BBC team visited the guest house where he and the musicians were staying in order to record an interview he had agreed to do with BBC Network Africa in London.

As we tried to get a link with London, he happily chatted away on his mobile phone to his friend and former collaborator, Salif Keita - Cheick Tidiane knows eveyone who's anyone here.

With the interview compl...

Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba in Timbuktu

Title: Bassekou Kouyate and Ngoni Ba in Timbuktu
Runtime: 4:56
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Bassekou Kouyate and his band Ngoni Ba made one of the best received African albums of 2009. "I Speak Fula", released in September followed the hugely successful 2007 Segu Blue album.

Through his music, Bassekou and his band have breathed new life into Ngoni playing.

The traditional string instrument made of wood or calabash with animal skin stretched across it was always played sitting down on stage.

Bassekou and his band changed that, strapping the Ngonis over their shoulders like guitars and bringing the instruments to the front of the stage.

Bassekou and Ngoni Ba headlined on Friday night at the Festival of the Desert.

We made contact with him on Saturday and he invited us to come to where he and his band were staying in Timbuktu to film an unplugged performance in the more traditional style.

Again, we found ourselves racing the setting sun, trying to get the performance recorded before the li...

Footage from the Festival of the Desert 2010

Title: Footage from the Festival of the Desert 2010
Runtime: 2:55
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: music - Welcome to Mali by Amadou and Mariam

Tuareg collective at the Festival of the Desert 2010

Title: Tuareg collective at the Festival of the Desert 2010
Runtime: 5:03
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: On Saturday morning, a group of young Tuareg men, wrapped in turbans against the strengthening sun, sat in the sand in front of their community of tents jamming together. There were guitars, drums, rapping, clapping and harmonies, the sound attracting a participating audience of friends and fellow musicians.

It epitomised the spirit of the festival, the coming together of people for music, collaboration and friendship.

The young men were musicians from Kidal, a town in the north of Mali which is also home to Tinariwen, the countrys most successful Tuareg band.

Playing together that day were members of three bands from the town; Amanar, Terkafte and Taliwen.

It was too windy for an outside performance and so they were persuaded to crawl into one of their own small tents along with cameras and recording equipment to perform a track for the Timbuktu video sessions collection.

This is - from Terakafte: Salou on guit...

Title: Nneka on Network Africa
Runtime: 7:59
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: In a revealing interview Nigerian song-writer, Nneka tells Bola Mosuro how winning the UK's Mobo award has raised her profile in her homeland and further afield.

Title: Romuald Hazoumé
Runtime: 6:43
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Jerry-cans, plastic, wax cloth and other found objects all feature in "Made In Porto-Novo", the latest London show by Benin artist, Romuald Hazoumé.
The exhibition at the October Gallery in Central London tells of the precarious existence of Porto Novo's small time petrol importers whose livelihoods rely on bringing huge jerry-cans of fuel over the Nigerian border.
Hazoumé's variety of art forms combines the old with the new, the traditional with the modern and his unique voice pulls inspiration from his own Yoruba tradition. Network Africa's Bola Mosuro met him on his opening night.

Title: Oliver Mtukudzi - Kupokana
Runtime: 5:03
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Oliver Mutukudzi with a song called Kupokana - a warning to be careful about the words that come out of your mouth.

As the BBC's Connected Africa Day focuses on Africa's new broadband connectivity, Network Africa sessions step in to provide you with the opportunity to really test the new technology by watching the great Zimbabwean singer and guitarist, Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi performing two tracks live in our Bush House studios.

Title: Oliver Mtukudzi - Neria
Runtime: 5:07
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: As the BBC's Connected Africa Day focuses on Africa's new broadband connectivity, Network Africa sessions step in to provide you with the opportunity to really test the new technology by watching the great Zimbabwean singer and guitarist, Oliver "Tuku" Mtukudzi performing two tracks live in our Bush House studios.

This classic track, Neria is about the strength of women and how they should take their place and not feel inferior to men.

Title: Keziah Jones - Kpafuca
Runtime: 3:22
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Network Africa's video sessions continue with a performance from Nigerian musician Keziah Jones, the inventor and master of Blu-funk.

Influenced by Fela Kuti and Jimi Hendrix, Keziah shuttles back and forth between West Africa, Europe and the US, singing, playing guitar and absorbing new musical styles as he goes.

He came to Bush House to perform a session for Network Africa.

Kpafuca appears on his 2003 album, Black Orpheus.

Title: Keziah Jones - Lagos vs New York
Runtime: 4:29
Date posted: 17 years ago
Description: Inflenced by Fela Kuti and Jimi Hendrix, Nigerian-born and New York based 'Blu-funk' musician, Keziah Jones performed a Network Africa session in studio S6 at Bush house.

"Lagos vs New York" is from his five track Nigerian Funk EP which comes in advance of the release of his fifth album, Nigerian Wood, due out in the autumn.

Described as "an album of pride and love" Keziah's new material seeks to represent Nigeria in a more contemporary cultural context with this track drawing parallels between his two favourite cities.

Nii Ayikwei Parkes talks to Bola Mosuro on BBC Network Africa

Title: Nii Ayikwei Parkes talks to Bola Mosuro on BBC Network Africa
Runtime: 9:25
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: As part of our Network Africa video series, writer Nii Ayikwei Parkes came into the studio to discuss his new crime novel, Tail of the Blue Bird.
Set in Ghana, the action takes place between the capital Accra and a small rural village, Sonokrom.
The narrative highlights the divergence of the two worlds with characters from the city having to meet villagers on their own terms if they are to solve the murder case.
Nii's poems featured on Network Africa a couple of years ago and Bola Mosuro was more than happy to chat to him once more about his work, this time in the long form.

Title: Vieux Farka Touré - Souba Souba
Runtime: 5:42
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: Vieux, Souleymane Kane (Calabash) and Aly Magassa (guitar) in session at Bush House for BBC Network Africa.

Great guitar work from the main man here and the calabash and rhythm guitar accompaniment combine to create this distinctive sound of modern Africa.

Vieux Farka Touré was also interviewd by Bola Mosuro about his new album Fondo. You can listen at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/2009/05/090528_vft_av.shtml

Title: Vieux Farka Touré - Walé
Runtime: 4:14
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: Vieux, Souleymane Kane (Calabash) and Aly Magassa (guitar) in session at Bush House for BBC Network Africa.

This is Vieux's own arrangement of a traditional Malian song.

The recording took much longer than we anticipated but the band took it in extremely good humour and were patient and amused by our tragic attempts at French!

Vieux Farka Touré was also interviewd by Bola Mosuro about his new album Fondo. You can listen at: http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/africa/2009/05/090528_vft_av.shtml

Petina Gappah with Bola Mosuro on Network Africa

Title: Petina Gappah with Bola Mosuro on Network Africa
Runtime: 9:21
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: New author Petina Gappah is a Zimbabwean lawyer based in Geneva; she has just published a collection of 13 short stories.

Petina visited us here at Bush House and Bola Mosuro asked if the title story 'An Elegy for Easterly' - in which a community struggles to survive evictions whilst maintaining alliances, petty grievances and even prejudices - was based on a true story or if she just imagined the painful experiences people were going through.

Daby Touré and Skip MacDonald on Network Africa

Title: Daby Touré and Skip MacDonald on Network Africa
Runtime: 4:49
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: Their meeting was "planned a long time ago - we just didn't know it", says Skip McDonald, collaborator and musical soul mate to Mauritania-born, Daby Touré.

The planning may have been done on a higher plain, possibly by the musical gods, but the connection that the two men feel with each other through their music is real.

McDonald, a blues artist originally from Dayton, Ohio in the US, and Touré initially came across each other while working on separate projects at the Real World record company's studios.

The mutual interest and "spiritual vibrations" they felt in each other's music made for repeated jam sessions which eventually gave rise to the production of 'Call My Name', their six track album.

The two artists visited Bush House to perform a couple of tracks and chat with BBC Network Africa's Bola Mosuro.

Title: Daby Touré and Skip MacDonald - Sinners
Runtime: 3:43
Date posted: 18 years ago
Description: Daby Touré and Skip MacDonald perform Sinners from their album, 'Call My Name'. This was recorded in March 2009 at Bush House in London for BBC Network Africa,

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