BBC Knowledge (DStv 251) starts four weeks of speciality programming daily - starting today - with shows looking at the multi-fasceted history, people, art, socio-political context, and the natural history of this continent.
Wild Africa on Mondays from 6 June at 21:30 on BBC Knowledge for the following four weeks explores the wildlife on the stable continent where a breathtaking variety of animals and plantlife have flourished for aeons, more successfully that on any other continent in the world.
Lost Kingdoms of Africa (pictured at the top) starts Tuesday 7 June at 21:30 on BBC Knowledge and continues on Tuesdays for four weeks. This breathtaking four part series reveals the pre-colonial history of some of Africa's most important kingdoms. Lost Kingdoms of Africa explores treasures, statues and ancient buildings as well as the culture, art and legends of the people with the British art historian Dr Gus Casely-Hayford.
An African Journey with Jonathan Dimbleby starts Wednesday 8 June at 21:30 on BBC Knowledge and continues on Wednesdays for three weeks. The respected British journalist travels from the Sahara to Nigeria, the Horn of Africa through Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania and then through the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Zambia and finally South Africa to look at communities who face great challenges but approach them with optimism and resolve.
Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos is on Thursday 9 June at 21:30 and is a must-see documentary you want to PVR and watch when you have time. In this fascinating film Louis Theroux explores a Lagos, one of the fastest growing cities in the world. Lagos is a city growing so fast that the formal structures of law and order can't keep pace with the population explosion. See what social structures emerge within Lagos when the government can't maintain control.
Who Do You Think You Are? South Africa starts Friday 10 June at 21:30 on BBC Knowledge and continues on Fridays for six weeks with double episodes every Friday. The South African version of the show traces South African celebrities' family histories. Included in the emotional journeys and family tree revelations are people such as Nthati Moshesh, Riaan Cruywagen, Colin Moss, Dawn Matthews and Jonathan Shapiro.
Welcome to Lagos starting Thursday 16 June at 21:30 on BBC Knowledge and then on Thursdays for three weeks is a 3 part series exploring just like Louis Theroux: Law and Disorder in Lagos one of the most extreme urban environments in the world. What is life really like in one of the toughest parts of the world's fastest growing megacity? Part one visits the city's rubbish dump, part two visits Makoko - a floating slum where 300 000 people live on the water; and part three visits the squatter camps on the beach.
A history of Safari with Richard E. Grant starting on 29 June at 21:30 on BBC Knowledge and continuing Wednesdays for three weeks sees the actor going on safari through East Africa and how modern safaris drives the economies of countries such as Tanzania and Kenya.
New Kings of Nigeria on Thursday 7 July at 21:30 is a profile piece on Walter, the great grandson of King Jaja of Opobo of Nigeria. Walter is actually the voice of Big Brother Nigeria. He was educated in the West but returned to Nigeria as one of the new youth elite where the African country's media world is his playground. But what does Nigeria mean to this ''new king when he steps outside of the confines of his studio and his air-conditioned car?
