Lagos est la plus grande ville du Nigeria et la deuxième plus grande ville du continent africain après Kinshasa. Quelle est son histoire ? Comment expliquer son développement fulgurant ? Que dire de son architecture et de sa culture ? Pour répondre à ces questions Johanne Dussez notre partenaire de la Première à la RST reçoit Armelle Choplin, géographe, urba ... Show More
Oct 2023
Africa's urban future: Ghana
What is the future for Africa's rapidly swelling cities? The stretch of nearly 1,000 km between Abidjan and Lagos, is by 2100 projected to be the largest zone of continuous, dense habitation on earth - and home to about half a billion people. In Ghana alone, the population which ... Show More
33m 59s
Mar 2023
Scenes from Nigeria's Baby Boom
With 224 million people, Nigeria is Africa's most populous country. By 2050, it could crack the global top three with some 375 million people. In the second of our two-part series on the global population passing eight billion, National Geographic photographer Yagazie Emezi descr ... Show More
25m 13s
Aug 2021
Oh dam! Water is all this about? The GERD dispute and the future of the Nile River
This week we discuss the crisis in Afghanistan with The New Arab's Kamal Afzali, and our US correspondent, Brooke Anderson. Then we explore the issues surrounding the Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam, and ask what the future holds for the mega project, and who could benefit the mo ... Show More
31m 35s
Dec 2023
Xavier Luffin, "Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives" (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020)
Another Look at Congolese History: Arabic and Swahili Documents in the Belgian Archives (Académie Royale des Sciences d’Outre-Mer, 2020), edited by Xavier Luffin, unlocks an unprecedented journey through the tapestry of Congo's past in Central Africa and the Indian Ocean world. T ... Show More
1h 9m
Oct 2023
Congo River
The Congo River is the world’s deepest and most powerful waterway. In its basin, a wilderness bigger than Alaska, natural resources abound - oil, gold, diamonds, rubber. But this river, more than any other, is also linked with some of the darkest times in human history – with sla ... Show More
51 m