Nobel Laureate, Wole Soyinka, has said the country is breeding a generation of illiterates who are relish in the arrogant of ignorance

⁣This documentary follows the training regimen of fighters from all over the world as they prepare for the prestigious all-world full contact karate tournament in Japan.

The multiplicity of foreign interests in African mineral wealth and resources has resulted in increased military bases on African soil and the threat of a reemergence of cold wars, civil wars the millions of people displaced of on the continent. How can this be avoided?

The Fulani, freedom-loving nomads in the Sahel desert, are fighting for survival in the face of overpopulation, urbanisation, global warning and radicalisation.

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While all deserts, including the Sahara, increase in size during the dry season and decrease during the wet season, human-caused climate change in conjunction with natural climate cycles, are causing the Sahara desert to grow more and shrink less. Since 1920, the Sahara has grown beyond its initial boundaries and gobbled up more space, growing by nearly 10 percent. The desert is advancing south into more tropical terrain, turning green vegetation dry and soil once used for farming into the barren ground. Despite the Global North being the most significant contributor to greenhouse gas emissions and global warming, it is people like those living in the Sahel who are paying the price.

Ten African countries are moving ahead with an ambitious pan-African effort to protect arable land from the encroaching Sahara —by planting trees from Senegal in the west to Djibouti in the east. Dubbed The Great Green Wall, it is an African-led movement with an ambition to grow an 8,000km NEWEST WONDER OF THE WORLD across the entire width of Africa, designed to trap the sands of the Sahara, halt the advance of the desert and restore 100 million hectares of land. It was initially intended to be just a line of trees, stretching east to west, to help push back the Sahara’s expansion down south.

⁣Africa's Desert Problem: How to Stop the Sahara

Saturday, July 23rd 1960.

Footage of Patrice Lumumba, the Prime Minister of Congo-Kinshasa, arriving in London on a Saturday evening while en route to New York.

He was met on arrival by the British Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, John Profumo. He had a private talk with Profumo and other British officials.

Lumumba was interviewed in French by ITN correspondent John Connell.

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Oct. 26, 1999

Former president of South Africa and Nobel Peace prize winner Nelson Mandela delivers his views on world affairs on the occasion of receiving the Enron Prize. President Mandela is introduced by His Royal Highness Prince Bandar Bin Sultan, the Ambassador of Saudi Arabia to the United States of America.

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This tribute to Winnie Madikizela-Mandela reflects through rare archival footage and interviews some of the most poignant moments of Winnie Mandela to pay tribute to a woman of strength and valour produced by The African Oral History Archive, a flagship programme of the @Ichikowitz Family Foundation @ivorichikowitz www.africanoralhistory.com

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