TikTok is one of the most popular social media platforms among young voters but its role in Kenya’s heated presidential race is going relatively unscrutinised. BBC Monitoring’s Beverly Ochieng takes a look at how it works in the political back-and-forth between the leading presidential candidates. Camera: Anthony Irungu Editing: Suniti Singh Video produced by BBC Monitoring…
In February 2020, a shocking video began to circulate on Chinese social media. A group of African children are being instructed, by a voice off-camera, to chant phrases in Chinese. The kids repeat the words with smiles and enthusiasm — but they don’t understand that what they’re being told to say is “I am a…
Education in Africa is based on post-colonial curriculums whose content taught little and often skewed African history and culture and its place in the world. We went to the Children in Freedom School in Kenya to find out how their Afrocentric approach differs from the norm, and how the parents and students have embraced it. Produced,…
It’s estimated thousands of Africans were among more than five million refugees fleeing the Russian invasion of Ukraine. As they tried to escape the carnage, many Africans were treated like second class citizens. Reports of discrimination at Ukraine’s western borders were widespread with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees acknowledging racist treatment. BBC Africa journalist,…
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…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=papUXpLXf8I Africa Eye exposes dodgy driving licences and dangerous vehicles on Kenya’s killer roads. Have the network of roads which
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZDF1eGMWlw There’s been a major development for sexual health in South Africa. The country has just approved the dapivirine vaginal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x‑wlvZmsh6s Until recently, Zimbabwean student Korrine Sky was studying medicine in Ukraine. Once the fighting started she decided to flee.
BBC Africa speaks to two health experts to find answers to key questions about Covid-19 vaccines in Africa, such as
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