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Africa has the fastest-growing cell phone market in the world, fueling the continent's IT boom and making Nokia and Google sit up and take notice. This program examines East Africa's burgeoning and innovative use of information technology in small businesses, health care, education, and social activism. Viewers meet the software developers and digital pioneers who are increasing Africa's connectivity with programs such as One Laptop Per Child-an initiative...
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With only a library book as his guide, 14-year-old William Kamkwamba builds a windmill in his Malawian village that changes his life forever. Using junk parts and an inexhaustible imagination, he harnesses enough energy to power a generator that saves his family from famine and resuscitates his dying farming community. An instant media sensation, the teen soon has the ability to chart a previously unimaginable future of Ivy League schools and speaking...
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Sao Tome and Principe boast beautiful waters, volcanic peaks, and an abundance of endemic species existing only on the archipelago. It's this biodiversity that has drawn scientists to track, map, and preserve the wildlife. And now, the country is using it to attract eco-tourism.
12) Ghana's Highlife
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Ghana's Highlife is a musical identity that became the back beat for an African soundscape, a style of song that borrowed from abroad but took on its own traditions.
14) Pygmy Millennial
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A 19-year-old Baka pygmy hunter-gatherer journeys home for the summer holidays from a top secondary school in the capital to his family deep in the Dja Forest.
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Social media is changing how the world works. Nowhere is that more apparent than in Africa's most populous city, Lagos. In this bustling metropolis of an estimated 23 million people, around 10 million are under the age of 25 and their numbers are rising rapidly. Tech savvy and increasingly well connected, they have embraced social media and, in the process, a new generation of high profile and highly paid personalities have emerged. In this episode...
18) Rodrigues Lemons
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The tiny island of Rodrigues has sustained itself for centuries on what it harvests from the sea and its lush landscape. Dig deep into the production of one of its most coveted crops.