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.

The story of Africa is the oldest and most event-filled chronicle of human activity on the planet. These 36 half-hour lectures cover this great historical drama, tracing the story of the sub-Saharan region of the continent from the earliest evidence of human habitation to the latest challenges facing African nations in the 21st century.

The Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics.

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

Footage shot in and around the Sahara Desert, accompanied only by a spoken creation myth and the songs of Leonard Cohen.

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

Dr. Livingstone, I presume?....

As a girl, Lady Duff-Gordon was noted both for her beauty and intelligence. As an author, she is most famous for this collection of letters from Egypt.

Michael Palin is off again, this time to the seemingly desolate Sahara Desert.