Three essential stories to round off your working day. Explaining the big topics and news from Africa, the people behind them, plus an African perspective on global stories. Hosted by Audrey Brown. Five days a week, ready by late afternoon, Monday to Friday.
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The bitter side of vanilla trade
We gain access to a prison in Madagascar and speak to a sixteen year old inmate living in extreme conditions for having stolen vanilla pods A conference held to call for unity in Cameroon ends up highlighting divisions between English-speaking separatists and the central government. We speak to the Ethiopian man who discovered an 18th-century Ethiopian crown in his flat. The exquisite object will return home after having gone missing for sixteen years.