The five Brics countries of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are holding their 15th annual summit in Johannesburg. However one of the nations leaders, Vladimir Putin, will not be there. The G7 nations have been very critical of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but the Brics nations, including South Africa, less so. The BBC’s Kim Chakanetsa…
In May 2023, the UK government has announced plans to scrap dependent visas for many foreign students. The new rule comes as migration to the UK hit a record high of 606,000 last year. BBC Africa explains why is Nigeria one of the main targets of the clampdown. Presented by Anita Nkonge Produced by Maureen Nyukuri …
The head of Nigeria’s Independent National Electoral Commission (Inec), Professor Mahmood Yakubu, says that the Nigerian elections will go ahead as planned despite rumours of postponements due to insecurity in parts of the country. Nigerians are set to go to the polls on 25 February 2023 to elect a new president. Professor Yakubu spoke to…
A BBC investigation has discovered that political parties in Nigeria are secretly paying social media influencers to spread disinformation about their opponents ahead of general elections in February. The BBC’s Global Disinformation Team has spoken to whistle-blowers working for two of Nigeria’s political parties, and prominent influencers who have described it as “an industry”. The…
Three years ago, BBC Africa Eye’s Nancy Kacungira reported on the plight of three young women, Mercy, Scovia and Esther who left their homes to find jobs as domestic workers. Commonly referred to as ‘housegirls’, the film chronicled their hard lives and illustrated how being employed as a domestic worker can sometimes lead to mistreatment…
On April 5th 2022, Mubarak Bala – the president of the Humanist Association of Nigeria – plead guilty to charges attached to blasphemy. The sentence that followed caused shockwaves throughout the country, reverberating around the world, and placing the threats to freedom of expression in Africa’s most populous country under new scrutiny. BBC’s Yemisi Adegoke…
In Kenya, over a third of the population grow up in single parent families. #BBCAfricaEye follows the personal journey of reporter Namukabo Werungah, who has never known her father and has decided to search for this missing part of her identity. She has no idea if he is alive or dead, but with her wedding…
Africa is rich with a variety of traditional religions and spiritual belief systems. However during the colonial period missionaries spread Christianity throughout the continent, and suppressed many of these pre-existing belief systems. Africans continued to follow their traditional belief, in smaller numbers than before, and these faiths still exist today. Younger African people, particularly women, have…