Magazine program in which reporters go behind the scenes and beyond the usual stories from Africa. First up, Toyin Fani-Kayode investigates political and practical problems faced by independent newspapers in Nigeria.
Ghana hits back at the pirating of music cassettes. A Tanzanian town springs up overnight as gold is discovered. Kenya attempts to reduce road deaths caused by minibus touts.
An unlikely location for a positive story is a Johannesburg squatters camp where its first school transforms the lives of thousands of children. Emerging businesswomen in Nigeria and animal conservation in Kenya rounds out the program.
In the wake of the civil war in Rwanda, anthropologists are now returning to find out how the mountain gorillas of Virunga have fared. In Namibia, anthropologist strive to record the language of the bushmen.