Dr Tony Marinho explores why people smoke cigarettes Read more
now playing
Smoke Dreams
Dr Tony Marinho explores why people smoke cigarettes
South Africa Healthcare Train
Riding aboard the Phelophepa train which serves rural areas and provides free screening
South Africa's Poor Urbanites
The efforts of poor urban communities to raise funds and build their own homes
Mali Tuaregs
Climatic conditions and a loss of livestock mean that Tuareg people have turned to farming
Tanzania Internet
Developing the use of technology and the internet in the Tanzanian capital Dar Es Salaam
International Human Rights Day
How Sierra Leone is dealing with the civil war's human rights abuses
Death in Malawi
The rising death rate in due to AIDS and the effect it's having on the cost of funerals
The Namib and Himba
In search of the Himba, whose way of life has - ironically been preserved by Angola's war
Uganda Prisons
Meeting the human rights of prisoners in Uganda's prisons is a struggle
Going 91热爆 to Table Mountain
Forcibly removed in 1968, the former residents of District Six return
Zimbabwe - The Struggle Within the Struggle
Former combatants in Zimbabwe's war of independence speak about the political crisis
Islam in Mali
"Politics and religion cannot make a good soup"
Mombasa, Kenya
Robin White takes a tour of the Kenyan port city of Mombasa
The United States - Post 9/11
Africans living in the US assess the changing social landscape post 9/11
In the Black - Part One
Microfinance and small businesses in Kenya
In the Black - Part Two
How the emergence of a black middle class can help business in South Africa
In the Black - Part Three
How Somali business people have created and expanded highly successful companies
In the Black - Part Four
Building a thriving businesses in Ghana
South African AIDS Epidemic
In 2001 five million South Africans were living with HIV
Shaba Concerts
The 1900s tradition of the concert party or variety show continues in modern Ghana
The African Cup of Nations in Mali
What has it taken to put on a huge sporting event in one of the world's poorest countries?
Angolan Refugees in Zambia
Refugees explain their experiences of the Angolan civil war
The Pyramids of Sudan
Meroitic empire's pyramids served as tombs for the kings and queens of Napata and Meroe
Like Mother Like Daughter - Part One
The story of an African student leaving home to attend Harvard University
Like Father Like Son - Part One
Uganda's former Minister of Justice Godfrey Roulay and his son Joel in discussion
Like Mother Like Daughter - Part Two
Nigerian writers Omowunmi and Mabel Segun talk about each other's achievements
Scars of Apartheid - Soweto
Mother and son Mary and Ephraim recall the day Ephraim took part in the demonstration
Scars of Apartheid - White Guilt
Pieter explains how it is to be white in South Africa in the aftermath of Apartheid
Scars of Apartheid - Colour Classification
Born black to conservative white parents, Sandra Laing on her relationship with her family
Cape Coast, Ghana
A tour of the town of Cape Coast, Ghana including the supposedly haunted Fort William
Freetown's Reconstruction
Rebuilding a shattered capital city a year on from the end of Sierra Leone's brutal war