Africa Audio & Video

The University of Oxford is one of the world's leading centres for the study of Africa.

Green Hills of Africa, Hemingway's remarkable re-creation of his two-month safari in the big-game country of East Africa, is rich in description and refreshingly alive to the character, culture, and customs of the country.

Forty years ago, Paul Theroux first went to Africa as a teacher in the Malawi bush.

Alexandra Fuller tells the idiosyncratic story of her life growing up white in rural Rhodesia as it was becoming Zimbabwe....

Start speaking Arabic in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Survival Phrases - Arabic, a completely new way to travel with confidence! Survival Phrases.

Amelia B. Edwards wrote this historical, egyptological, and cultural study in in 1877, and it became an immediate best-seller, reprinted in 1888 at home in England and abroad. She travelled throughout Egypt at a time when most women didn't leave home.

Foreign correspondent Neely Tucker and his wife, Vita, arrived in Zimbabwe in 1997.

The true and hilarious story of how Gerald Durrell and his wife set up their own zoo in Jersey....

V.S. Naipaul discusses his most recent work of travel writing as cultural history, The Masque of Africa: Glimpses of African Belief. V.S. Naipaul will be joined in conversation this evening by his editor, George Andreou.

Somalia, on the tip of the Horn of Africa, has been inhabited as far back as 9,000 B.C. Its history is as rich as the country is old....