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 Children of Hope and FaithA documenatry dedicated to the orphans and children of ... |
 Africa Uncovered: Rights & ReconstructionRwanda is on the road to recovery, with annual economic growth more than six per cent... and women who survived the genocide are driving this ... |
 War DanceFor the past twenty years, northern Uganda has been at war with a rebel force, the Lord's Resistance Army (L.R.A), and the country's children have been the greatest victims of th... |
 Soweto StringsSince 1992 viola player Rosemary Nalden has been teaching classical music in Soweto. In 1997 she set up Buskaid, which provides free tuition to youngsters from the surrounding ... |
 Black GoldThe subject of this documentary are the unfair profits that coffee growers in Ethiopia get in relation to to the huge profits multinationals like Nestle, Proctor and Gamble, and Starbucks ... |
 Madagascar: Turning the bonesCitizens of Madagascar refer to their nation as the "land of the ancestors". In many ways, theirs is a typical tribal society, and like many such societies they revere their ... |
 War and PeacekeepersA look into the Congo and the problems facing soldiers from Monuc in Congo, the UN's most expensive deployment and a source of controversy. ... |
 South Africa: Forgotten Freedom FightersIn 1961, Nelson Mandela formed the military wing of the ANC to help in the struggle against Apartheid. As South Africans prepare to go to the polls in their f... |
 Miriam Makeba: Apartheid YearsMiriam Makeba and others reflect on life during the Apartheid years in and out of South Africa.Contributions from: SOPHIE MGCINA, SAM NGAKANE (The Cuban Brothers), HUGH MASEKELA, DON MATTERA, TANDIE ... |
 Liberia: An Uncivil WarIn Liberia, the summer of 2003 was pure insanity: Two armies are engaged in the final battle of a seemingly endless civil war while this African nation, founded by freed ... |
 Swazi 1000In late November 2008, Bulembu will host over 1,000 South African university students and professionals as they descend upon the community. In an inspiring event of logistics, service and life ... |
 Sharia Law in NigeriaA look at the massive influence that foreign religion has over African people. In this BBC documentary (screened in around 2007), a female reporter spends some time with an Islamic ... |
 British Empire -vs- SudanUnder the guise of liberating Sudan from an oppressive regime, the British conquer the ruling Sudanese Mahdists and gain revenge for past ... |
 Invisible ChildrenIn the spring of 2003, three young Americans traveled to Africa in search of such as story. What they found was a tragedy that disgusted and inspired them. A story ... |
 Black PharaohsThe one-hour documentary examines the possible causes behind Egypt's downfall. Select images from NASA, along with global climate models and mapping reveal how changes half a world away triggered a ... |
 Zambia Threshold ProjectThe political will to tackle corruption is stronger today than at any other time in recent Zambian history. With the help of the Zambia Threshold Project, the Government of Zambia, ... |
 The life of Anwar SadatBorn into a family of 13 children in 1918, Anwar al-Sadat grew up among average Egyptian villagers in the town of Mit Abul Kom 40 miles to the north of Cair... |
 Great Zimbabwe: Africa's forgotten KingdomIn the heart of southern Africa stands the remains of a once mighty city, Great Zimbabwe. For hundreds of years a mysterious civilization reigned supreme here on the Zimbabwe plateau. ... |
 Ethiopia: A terrible beautyIt's where Geldof's personal march for justice began. On the 20th anniversary of Live Aid he returns to the country that first triggered his - and our - indignation over th... |
 Addicted To AidOver the last 50 years Western governments have paid out more than £400bn of tax payers' money in aid to Africa, but according to figures released by the World Bank ... |
 The Lost Libraries of TimbuktuThe story of Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of thousands of ancient manuscripts. Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of ... |
 Running from MugabeAs Zimbabwe's political and economic crisis deepens, victims of President Robert Mugabe's violent regime are being forced to flee for their lives. This World enters a world of paranoia ... |
 Africa Uncovered - Shifting sandsAfrica Uncovered travels to the Sahara desert in Niger to investigate the battle of ethnic Tuaregs - who have maintained their nomadic existence for thousands of years - against the ... |
 Omoyele Sowore: Nigeria and Big Oil"... for every gallon of gas you buy, there is human blood in it." Omoyele Sowore spoke at Lewis and Clark College in Portland, Oregon on November 15, 2006. Omoyele ... |
 Meet the JanjaweedJournalists secure unprecedented access to a key Arab armed group accused of being part of the infamous "Janjaweed militia". The Janjaweed are blamed for some of the worst atrocities that ... |
 Keepers of The Lost ArkFor six months David Adams travels through the most forbidden and inhospitable parts of Afghanistan and Central Asia, looking for proof that climate change and natural disaster decide the true fu... |
 Riddle of Nubia's TombsRiddle Of Nubia's Tombs - Concealed for millennia beneath the burial mounds of a once-mighty but misunderstood African empire, the skeletons of hundreds of royal servants line the interior of ... |
 Ethiopia - Secret Holy LandDon Wildman visits a sixth-century church carved by hand into the side of a rock face 3,000 meters above sea level. The walls of the church are covered by beautiful, ... |
 The Assassination of Patrice LumumbaPatrice Lumumba was the first Prime Minister of the newly independent African state, The Congo. To fellow Africans he was a hero - the man who had won his country's in... |
 Africa Uncovered - Mauritania: Fat or FictionBig is often regarded as beautiful in Mauritania, but the controversial act of force-feeding is still practiced in some parts of the co... |
 No Reservations: GhanaAnthony Bourdain's TV show No Reservations takes him to ... |
 The MDC ActivistSekai Holland and Jim Holland are activists with the MDC party.Helen Zille, the Mayor of Capetown in South Africa, speaks out against Thabo Mbeki and the quiet diplomacy approach ... |
 Alicia in Africa: Journey to the Motherland"Alicia in Africa: Journey to the Motherland" has been given to you free of in hopes that Alicia's message will reach millions around the globe. Now that you’ve gone on th... |
 Congo: the worst crisis in the world todayThe first part of a 30 minutes interview with Maurice Carney, Executive Director of Friends of the Congo (FOTC) and Kambale Musavuli, Spokesperson & Student Coordinator of FOTC.The conflict in ... |
 Africa Uncovered - Kenya: Horror and HopeAmidst the mayhem of Kenya's post-election ethnic violence, one group of ethnically-mixed aspiring young journalists from Nairobi's Mathare slum decided to take up cameras instead of knives. Slum TV aimed to... |
 The Empire in AfricaWARNING: SCENES OF GRAPHIC VIOLENCE. The rebels who started the civil war in Sierra Leone 15 years ago wanted only one thing: to reclaim the richness of the country from ... |
 Why Ancient Egypt FellThis one-hour documentary examines the possible causes behind Egypt's ... |
 Law And Disorder In JohannesburgBritish TV presenter Louis Theroux (son of Paul) parachuted into South Africa again, this time for the BBC, to look at the policing of crime in Johannesburg. If you can get ... |
 Dead Aid: Foreign Aid Does More Harm Than GoodThe 2009 Munk Debates: "Be it resolved, foreign aid does more harm than good" Dambisa Moyo and Hernando De Soto argue in favour of the motion. Paul Collier and ... |
 Msasa DaysA Rhodesian propaganda film made during the war for Zimbabwe's ... |
 Slavery: A Global InvestigationTrue Vision of London produced this 80-minute documentary, inspired by Free the Slaves President Kevin Bales' award-winning book Disposable People, exposes cases of slavery around the world. Watch more documentary ... |
 The Brenda Fassie StoryBrenda Fassie (November 3, 1964 – May 9, 2004), was a legendary South African pop singer and widely considered the voice for disenfranchised blacks during apartheid. She was affectionately known as... |
 How to get ahead in AfricaBAFTA award-winning journalist Sorious Samara goes undercover to investigate corruption in Africa. The program provides a sober portrait of how modern politics works in many African nations, with most of ... |
 The Cost of Inaction - AIDS in AfricaA MAP to Action: "AIDS in Africa and the World Bank" is a documentary film about the World Bank's Africa Multi-country AIDS Program from the perspectives of beneficiaries, communities and gl... |
 Out of ExileOut of Exile brings the crisis in Darfur and other parts of Sudan out of the policy realm and into the lives of people who never meant to carry the ... |
 Wide Angle -The Market MakerWIDE ANGLE travels to East Africa to tell the dramatic story of an Ethiopian economist on a mission. Seeking a market-based solution to ending hunger in her famine-plagued country, she ... |
 Africa Uncovered - Right and WrongWith elections in South Africa less than a year away, far right extremists such as Eugene Terre'blanche are holding political rallies once again. Is there a danger of them shattering ... |
 Bankrolling MugabeDispatches investigates how Robert Mugabe and politicians in his ZANU-PF party are still clinging on to power in Zimbabwe, focusing on the businessmen who are benefiting from or supporting his ... |
 Blood Coltan"The mobile phone is a remarkable piece of engineering. But look inside. There's blood in this machine. There's blood in this device because your mobile contains tiny electronic circuits, and ... |
 Mauritius/Reunion: Island TravelMauritius, officially the Republic of Mauritius, French: République de Maurice, is an island nation off the coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about 900 kilometres (560 mi... |
 Portrait of a "Terrorrist"Just before independence in 1979 in a revealing expose. The video features some of the stalwarts of Zimbabwes Chimurenga such as Josiah Tongogara and Edson ... |
 Life and Death of Steve BikoThis documentary s you a look at who Steven Biko was and what he meant to the revolution against apartheid in South ... |
 Origins of AidsThis documentary profiles the highly controversial theory that HIV is a Simian Virus which mutated to infect humans when we unknowingly vaccinated millions of Africans with contaminated polio vaccine. The ... |
 Kwame NkrumahA look at how former Ghanaian leader Kwame Nkrumah set Africa ablaze with his vision of a new industrial and scientific age. At the heart of his dream was to be... |
 Soweto UprisingThe Soweto uprising or Soweto riots were a series of clashes in Soweto, South Africa on June 16, 1976 between black youths and the South African authorities. The riots grew ... |
 How the IMF underdevelops AfricaWhy, 50 years after independence, is Ghana, which is rich in minerals and is a stable democracy, still one of the poorest countries in the world? This documentary examines the ... |
 Uganda RisingAfrican history for well over a century has been largely written in terms of war, domination, brutality and plunder, by both external and internal forces. Many of these problems were ... |
 Festival in the desertIn collaboration with Afropop Worldwide, Link TV produced this 42-minute music documentary Festival In The Desert: the Tent Sessions about the 2003 festival held in Essakane, Mali, near Timbuktu. Sean Ba... |
 Trouble in the Horn of AfricaSomalia, a war-torn country on the East Coast (Horn) of Africa hasbeen a trouble spot for decades now. When US forces sufferedhumiliation in the infamous Blackhawk Down incident they wheresoon wi... |
 Tom Brokaw in RwandaFrom the IRC's Emily Holland: Traveling to Rwanda was a very special experience for me. Not only did I have the chance to learn about the IRC's programs through the ... |
 Africa Uncovered - Murder & MythOne in 4,000 people in Africa is an albino. While they have traditionally lived with discrimination and attracted suspicion, albinos in Tanzania now face a more serious threat. In recent mo... |
 South Africa: The new apartheidThe series began in South Africa where a huge rise in illegal immigration from Zimbabwe and other African states is behind an increase in racism and xenophobic violence. Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy ... |
 Stayin' Alive In Jo'burgJohannesburg is the largest economic metropolis in Africa. Downtown Johannesburg, however, is one of the world's most violent places. Most offi ce buildings have been vacated or squatted and are ... |
 Blood on the StoneSorious Samura looks at the aftermath of the civil war in Sierra Leone, in particular, the illicit diamond trade that financed the war. Samura attempts to evaluate the effectiveness of ... |
 The Scramble for AfricaIn the late, chill spring of 1886, with morning frost still on the ground at eleven, the Queen left Windsor by private train early on May 4 to open the Co... |
 America's New Frontline: A Self-Fulfilling ProphecyRageh Omaar travels to the US and through East and West Africa to investigate the US strategy for the continent. Can Barack Obama make a decisive break with the path ... |
 Rwanda: Do Scars Ever FadeIn 1994, the small African country of Rwanda was awash in blood. Extremists in the majority Hutu-controlled government organized a systematic genocide of Rwanda's minority Tutsi population. In just 100 da... |
 Saving Africa's Witch ChildrenDisturbing program looking at the superstition and poverty, coupled with false Christian teaching in Nigeria and Africa, and the subsequent effect upon the lives of innocent young ch... |
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(My Love & Pride) The Africa T...
Good job.I didn't knew Africa was looks like this. Keep awareevery body. More...
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He's really great. I've created a playlist on youtube of some interviews he did www.youtube.com/.../ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Phmdn0sZ7ew) More...
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Noose tightens on Nairobi's se...
When its free and uncensored the media behaves as a government watchdog. It's terrific. Kenyans should be proud of their news networks. They're some of the most active here on HeadlinesAfrica . More...
By MMusa- Africa Economic Development Af...
I like how this guy thinks. Where can we find the videos this guy made? More...
By MMusa 
South Sudan disarms civilians
Yes well done. I am convinced that Africa will see more of this type of positive change as these old regimes die out and new more enlightened leaders take their place. More...
By Kaome- South Sudan disarms civilians
Good question. Well done to the South Sudanese government! More...
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South Sudan disarms civilians
Where do these people get these guns from. I mean how do they get their hands on such old weapons? rifles from 1843 More...
By Obsrvr
Sudanese Immigrants in US Ques...
The term genocide implies an attempt of one group to systematically erradicate another based on race, ethnicity, language, or some other factor. In almost all regards the government of Sudan shares th... More...
By MMusa- Sudanese Immigrants in US Ques...
Next: Genocide in Darfur. Anyone who claims that what's happening in Darfur amounts to genocide, as this report claims President Obama does, is either unaware of the history and demographics of Sudan ... More...
By MMusa - Sudanese Immigrants in US Ques...
Simply put no government is perfect but no government is perfectly evil either. There are many grievances to raise against the Bashir government but to deny their fundamental role in establishing the ... More...
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