Faces of Africa – Cocoa to cash in Cote d’Ivoire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0G90tqdkUF8
It was in the 1970s that Cote d’Ivoire began to establish itself as a powerhouse for cacao production. It currently leads the world in...
Faces of Africa 07/16/2017 The Unity Dow Story
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zEeGFCu0f0E
Unity Dow is the former high court judge of Botswana, human rights activist, writer and politician. She was born in 1959 in Botswana and...
Faces of Africa 07/09/2017 Planet Ocean
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JozGXaeLsw
“As humans, we sometimes forget that we come from water, that it’s not a foreign space. As we become forgetful, we lose a connection...
Faces of Africa 07/02/2017 Samora Machel: The Struggle Continues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpnzyY08LMg&t=2s
The Republic of Mozambique is a country in the South-eastern part of Africa. Its capital and largest city is, Maputo. The country was colonized...
Faces of Africa 06/25/2017 Musical Dreams: The Odeion String Quartet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGPu6QHU814&t=1s
Bloemfontein is renowned as the center of musical education and performance in South Africa.
But the emergence of a new era after apartheid saw the...
Faces of Africa – Eshetu Sentayehu: The Unsung Hero
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J2X0JAR6gnY
Ethiopia is world known for its prolific athletes. Most of these athletes come from Bekoji
town, a small agrarian town in Central Ethiopia. This small...
Faces of Africa – Fidelis, APOPO & the Hero Rats
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKtwXVxyV2A
The number of landmines buried in Africa alone is in millions. These landmines were planted mostly during wars in the colonial period.
Decades later, these...
Faces of Africa – Wadongo’s Little lamp
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJD3FNwUU3c
Evans Wadongo, one of the top ten CNN heroes in 2010, was nominated for the award for designing a solar lamp which he calls...
Faces of Africa – Gorillas in our Midst: The Story of...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=saFDMxOVrww&t=142s
A hundred years ago, Uganda was branded the Pearl of Africa. Wildlife of every kind could be found in abundance. Then in the 1970s,...
Faces of Africa – AMISOM: Africans Save Somalia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4tMJxi3sDE
In 1991 a civil war broke out in Somalia that was to last 20 years. Multiple rebel factions competed to fill the power vacuum...