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In 1993, all but one of the Zambian national football team died in an air crash in the Atlantic Ocean. With a warrior-like obsession, a new generation of Zambia's team players finally won the Africa Cup 19 years after the air crash.

In 1993, all but one of the Zambian national football team died in an air crash in the Atlantic Ocean. With a warrior-like obsession, a new generation of Zambia's team players finally won the Africa Cup 19 years after the air crash.

While COVID-19 made crime a big issue for careers working in the community, the Bishop Lavis area experienced crime and drug activities for decades. Many people attribute this to the brutality and forced removals that took place during apartheid times.

Doctor Mumtaz Abbas provides clinical support and training at the Bishop Lavis Clinic, providing care and services to a community that sprawls across Cape Town’s notorious cape flats. It’s a role that can be difficult at the best of times, but the COVID-19 pandemic brought entirely new challenges.

The East African Coastline boarding the so-called Indian Ocean is a treasure trove of history.

In Nairobi, Kenya, there's a club called "Inked Sisterhood" with members being all females, of course. They work on different fields but share one common interest – superbike riding.

In the centuries before the Suez Canal, the trade route between East and West had to pass Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1652 to stock passing ships with supplies, it was in the Western Cape that Africa's first capital intensive farming took place. Almost 500 years later, that farming tradition continues and food is a major industry here. Only now, the challenge is not to supply passing s...

In the centuries before the Suez Canal, the trade route between East and West had to pass Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1652 to stock passing ships with supplies, it was in the Western Cape that Africa's first capital intensive farming took place. Almost 500 years later, that farming tradition continues and food is a major industry here. Only now, the challenge is not to supply passing s...

The Swahili coast, also known as the East African Coastline, has been an area of ancient comers and culture for over a millennium.

With some of the highest natural sand dunes in the world, Namibia's a mecca for sandboarders. Being extreme personalities, they never stop trying to conquer the most difficult ride.

Lehlomela Tente is the man behind Serumula performance academy and choir.

Like most African countries, Lesotho has experienced extensive urbanization and its society has been transformed by social and cultural influences from elsewhere. One such influence comes in the form of choral music.

A month ago, tired of hurting the goats and seeing other children go to school, Tumanka run away from his father's home, Leaving the goats behind. Today, he wakes up early in the morning. Tumanka is going to school.

Mount Kilimanjaro is waiting for us to get on it. Another thirty years may be another century, and all of that might be gone.

There's Mount Kilimanjaro waiting for us to get on it. It's cold. It's wet. It's windy. This is pretty intimidating, but at the same time it's exciting. It's new. It’s different. It's a challenge. And that's usually the best part.

Windhoek, the capital of Namibia, is nestled amongst the rolling hills of the Khomas highland plateau. It is a small, isolated city that lies at the heart of one of the most sparsely populated countries on the continent. It may not be a place from where one would expect a dynamic new fashion movement to arise, but at a home in the working class area, a group of friends is getting dressed for an un...

Faces of Africa presents documentaries on people in Africa, either prominent or ordinary, who have great stories to tell about Africa.

Enos Mafokate, over the hurdle

Faces of Africa presents documentaries on people in Africa, either prominent or ordinary, who have great stories to tell about Africa.

Faces of Africa presents documentaries on people in Africa, either prominent or ordinary, who have great stories to tell about Africa.

Faces of Africa presents documentaries on people in Africa, either prominent or ordinary, who have great stories to tell about Africa.

Dr. Sam Nujoma, Love for the People

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