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RSS FeedSouth Africa: Blikkiesdorp residents interviewed in youtube video
2011-12-12, Issue 562
This CTV programme followed Blikkiesdorp resident, Jerome Daniels, as he took us through his journey from living on the pavements of Symphony Way; Delft; to being one of the 45 people who wrote and published their own collection of stories in the boo...
Uganda: The plight of refugees living with HIV/AIDS
2011-12-04, Issue 560
Every year on 1 December, the world unites to commemorate the World AIDS day. This year's global theme, 'Getting to Zero' is aimed at reducing the global prevalence to the lowest rate possible. Based on Uganda's theme, 'Re-engaging leadership for eff...
Egypt: Footage from November 19 – 22
2011-11-23, Issue 559
People ferry the wounded to hospital by motorcycle; a man in riot gear beats a crowd with what looks like a chair; a lifeless body is dragged out of the middle of a road; a morgue is filled with bodies. This amateur footage from pulsemedia.org shows ...
Mozambique: Video on female literacy
2011-11-27, Issue 559
In Angola and Mozambique, if women are to improve their lives and escape poverty, they need to have access to quality literacy and education which are amongst others the key tools to participate in political, social and economic life. This Video Docu...
Egypt: Tahrir at night
2011-11-21, Issue 558
Eleven people were left dead in Egypt as protestors against continuing military rule clashed with police in and around Tahrir Square. This informal video captures some of the scenes from Tahrir Square....
South Africa: 'Free Media, Free Minds'
2011-11-21, Issue 558
Cape Town Community TV together with the support of AIDC and FES have produced 'Free Media, Free Minds!' - a 13 part TV series focusing on aspects of media freedom and the free flow of information in South Africa. The show is broadcast across Cape To...
Global: KPFA Africa Today interview with William Minter
2011-11-21, Issue 558
This KPFA Africa Today programme with Walter Turner features an interview with William Minter, editor and producer of the valuable web site Africa Focus. He discusses his life's work in media and information regarding Africa....
Global: Africa Today interview with Gerald Horne
2011-11-14, Issue 557
In this interview, Africa Today's Walter Turner speaks with Gerald Horne on his life's work, his writings, and African Americans in the contemporary period....
South Africa: South Africa hosts Russell Tribunal on Palestine
2011-11-06, Issue 556
This PressTV video is a news feature on the Russell Tribunal on Palestine that took place recently in Cape Town. It features interviews with Desmond Tutu and Cynthia McKinney. The tribunal is an international people's forum created by a large group o...
Global: The Occupy Movement and hypocrisy of the US government
2011-11-07, Issue 556
This video is a collage of comments made by US President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State Hilary Clinton on protests in Libya, Egypt and Syria. Meanwhile, footage of police action against protestors in New York City is edited into the collage ...
Ghana: When Drugs Don't Heal
2011-10-10, Issue 551
The counterfeit medicine business is a big business in Ghana. Experts say only 60 per cent of anti-malarial medicines in the country are genuine; the remaining...
Ghana: Sex for Grades
2011-10-10, Issue 551
This documentary investigates the alleged sexual exploitation of female students in some of Ghana’s schools, especially the tertiary institutions. In this piece...
Ghana: Change agents
2011-10-10, Issue 551
Every graduate in Ghana is mandated to do a year’s national service. The programme coordinated by the National Service Secretariat was introduced 30 years a...
Ghana: Discrimination and people who live with Albinism
2011-10-10, Issue 551
There is enormous discrimination against people who live with Albinism in Ghana. Perception about the condition has assumed a superstitious twist, with suggestion...
Libya: War on Libya exposed
2011-10-10, Issue 551
Freedom Now! host Dedon Kamathi interviews Mahdi Nazemroaya, one of the last independent journalists in Tripoli, and former Rep. Cynthia McKinney, about Nazemroaya's findings regarding the fabricated claims that led to the US war on Libya....
Global: Africa Today - listen online
2011-10-10, Issue 551
Africa Today speaks with Robin Fryday the producer of the film 'The Barber of Birmingham: Foot Soldiers of the Civil Rights Movement' and talks with Eddie Daniels on contemporary South Africa. Eddie Daniels was imprisoned on Robben Island for many ye...
Trouble on the Land: Dan Rather Reports
2011-09-26, Issue 549
Dan Rather devotes his program, 'Dan Rather Reports on HD Net' on Tuesday 27 September to exploring the complex issues involved with modern-day land appropriation in developing countries. The program profiles Oakland Institute's ground breaking work ...
Ghana: Exploring lives in Sodom and Gomorrah slum
2011-09-26, Issue 549
Discover the ins and outs of Sodom and Gomorrah slum in this documentary. Close to 80,000 people live in Sodom and Gomorrah, a slum on the edge of the pollut...
Ghana: Political Promises
2011-09-26, Issue 549
Political Promises reveals how promises given the electorate end up unfulfilled. It is a special documentary on Obom, a village a few miles away from the ...
Ghana: Woes of the Borstal Child
2011-09-26, Issue 549
Woes of the Borstal Child delves into the poor conditions in which children are held in Ghana’s remand homes for children. Hundreds of the children under th...
Africa: The impacts of climate change in Africa
2008-11-28, Issue 408
Climate change is a global phenomenon that affects different populations around the world in different ways. In South Africa, for example, there are situations caused by global warming, as in the rest of the African continent. Siziwe Khanyile, member...
Women majority in parliament
Rwandan women come out on top in parliamentary elections
Contact FM
2008-11-13, Issue 406
This programme looks at the significance of the recent Rwandan elections which made history as women gained a majority in parliament - what do ordinary Rwandan women think of and expect from this success and what inspiration or message for the rest o...
Ubud Writers and Readers Festival - Shalini Gidoomal
2008-10-24, Issue 403
Shalini Gidoomal is a freelance journalist, writer, businesswoman and inveterate traveller, born, and currently living in Nairobi. She has worked extesively on various UK and international magazines and newspapers....
Black History Month - Interview with Horace Campbell
Contact FM
2008-08-07, Issue 392
The final interview of the Black History Month series is with Horace Campbell, professor of African American studies at Syracuse University, and author of Rasta and Resistance, from Marcus Garvey to Walter Rodney, and Reclaiming Zimbabwe: The Exhaustion of the Patriarchal Model of Liberation....
'Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: Insights from Africa and South America'
2008-07-30, Issue 391
Are Africa and South America destined to be 'resource-rich underachievers', or can knowledge intensification change all that? 'Resource Intensity, Knowledge and Development: Insights from Africa and South America' was launched at the Cape Town Book F...
Black History Month - Interview with Dan Lyndon
Contact FM
2008-07-23, Issue 390
Black History Month is also celebrated each October in the United Kingdom, which has had a substantial black population since the 16th century. In this interview Contact FM talks to Dan Lyndon, history teacher and member of the British and Asian Stud...
Black History Month - Interview with Patricia Sluby
Contact FM
2008-07-18, Issue 389
The history of African American science is still today an area not widely known about. Contact FM take a brief plunge into this history talking with writer Patricia Sluby, author of The Inventive Spirit of African Americans: Patented Ingenuity....
Black History Month - Interview with Gabrilla Ballard
Contact FM
2008-07-03, Issue 385
In this episode Contact FM leave Chicago and go down South, where they talk with Gabrilla Ballard, singer, songwriter and activist, who tells them what it is like living in New Orleans after the massive 2005 flooding....
Information for change
2008-06-25, Issue 384
This podcast examines the promise of new media and which features extracts from the proceedings at the Information for Change workshop held recently in Cape Town, including the keynote address delivered by Firoze Manji of Fahamu....
Black History Month - Interview with Floyd Webb
Contact FM
2008-06-25, Issue 384
Taking a closer look at the origins of Black History Month, Contact FM talks to Floyd Webb, film-maker and web designer based in Chicago, about the relevance of Black History Month and his predictions for the future....
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