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BBC Africa ProgrammesMeet the team behind BBC Africa

At the BBC headquarters in London and beyond

  • The BBC Africa hub brings together the production of multilingual content on radio, on TV and online on bbcafrica.com
  • BBC Africa has teams based in London and across much of sub-Saharan Africa, as well as in cities across the continent
  • Delivering content in English, French, Hausa, Kinyarwanda, Kirundi, Somali and Swahili, ensures a pan-African output
  • The BBC reaches 96 million people in Africa every week, which makes it the largest international broadcaster on the continent
  • Our websites are bbcafrica.com, bbcafrique.com, bbcarabic.com, bbcgreatlakes.com, bbchausa.com, bbcsomali.com and bbcswahili.com
  • BBC has two TV programmes dedicated to Africa - Focus on Africa and Dira ya Dunia
  • Focus on Africa broadcasts to a global audience via BBC World News television, and is rebroadcast in a number of countries
  • Dira ya Dunia is a news and current affairs TV programme broadcast in Kiswahili to audiences in East and Central Africa
  • The breakfast show, Newsday, is co-presented from London and cities in Africa including Johannesburg, Nairobi, Accra, and Lagos
  • Current issues that matter to the continent go under discussion and are brought to the attention of a global audience
  • BBC Africa also offers extensive coverage of African sports, especially football
  • Focus on Africa studios are frequently visited by some of the continent’s best known politicians and artists
  • Focus on Africa’s presenter Paul Bakibinga, interviewing Nigerian singer, actress and entrepreneur May7ven, in July 2013
  • Bola Mosuro tries a headscarf by Yemi Osunkoya, the award winning designer behind the London-based Kosibah Couture label
  • BBC Africa also has a prominent social media presence, especially via Facebook, Twitter and Google+

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  • BBC Africa Programmes

    Our programmes for Africa build on a strong network of reporters across the continent

    BBC World Service

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