Africa Audio & Video

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

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

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 Podcast about African History, Culture, and Politics.

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.

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

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.

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.

Dr. Livingstone, I presume?....