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Zeinab Badawi
  AFRICA: HOPE FOR TOMORROW
Thursday 30 June 2005 9pm-10pm; 12.15am-1.15am
 
 

Zeinab Badawi presents an hour-long debate, with an entirely African panel, looking at some of the main problems facing the continent today - and concentrating on what Africans are doing, or should be doing, to work for a better future.

The programme also features four short films about some of the issue raised.

 Watch the entire programme

Short Films

  • Corruption by Joseph Warungu, editor of the BBC World Service Focus on Africa

  • Trade by Albert Tucker, MD of Twin Trade, a fairtrade organisation

  • Cultural Perceptions of Africa by Diran Adebayo, novelist

  • HIV/Aids by Angelique Kidjo, pop singer

Panellists

  • Jerry Rawlings, former president of Ghana

  • Florence Mugasha, deputy secretary general of the Commonwealth

  • Lindiwe Mabuza, South African high commissioner to London

  • Anna Tibaijuka, commissioner on Tony Blair's Commission for Africa; and executive director of UN Habitat

  • Aidan Hartley, Kenyan farmer, former war correspondent and author of The Zanzibar Chest

  • Ken Wiwa, son of Ken Saro-Wiwa and human rights activist

 
 
AFRICA LIVES
A look at Africa on TV, radio and online
  Africa Lives on the BBC
HAVE YOUR SAY
Share your thoughts on the programme
Have Your Say

 Watch the entire programme

BBC Links

Focus on Africa
The daily World Service programme

Rawlings: A Hard Act to Follow
Interview with former Ghanaian leader

Lindiwe Mabuza
Hear an interview from Woman's Hour

External Links

Aidan Hartley
Biog and info on The Zanzibar Chest

Twin
Albert Tucker's fair trade company

Diran Adebayo
The author's official site

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