. The link for a major BBC audio history of the entire span of African
history. For specific twentieth-century episodes, scroll down to
programmes #20 through #24.
HOLOCAUST AND MEMORY,
Connection, January 26, 2005. Holocaust survivor David Gewirtzman and
Rwandan genocide survivor Jacqueline Murekatete share their stories and wonder
about the power of memory.
"THE FAILURE OF HUMANITY IN RWANDA,"
Fresh Air,
May 17, 2004. The head of the United Nations peacekeeping forces in
Rwanda in 1994, General Romeo Dallaire, discusses how the international
community failed that nation at its moment of crisis.
ALLISTER SPARKS: SOUTH AFRICA, "BEYOND THE MIRACLE,"
Tavis Smiley Show,
April 30, 2004. A veteran correspondent offers his assessment of South
Africa ten years after the end of apartheid.
ROMEO DALLAIRE, Connection,
April 21, 2004. The head of the U.N. peacekeeping forces in Rwanda in 1994
discusses how the lack of international will led to the deaths of hundreds of
thousands of people.
SOUTH AFRICA'S ROCKY ROAD TO DEMOCRACY,
Tavis Smiley Show, April 27, 2004.
SOUTH AFRICA: TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION,
Talk of the Nation,
April 21, 2004. The tenth anniversary of South Africa's first democratic
elections becomes the occasion for a roundtable to discuss that nation's
unique experiment in coming to terms with the past.
RECALLING RWANDA'S BRUTAL "100 DAYS,"
All Things Considered, April 6, 2004. Revisiting the 1994
genocide and its legacies on the ten-year anniversary of its beginning.
"FEW
WHO STAYED -- DEFYING GENOCIDE IN RWANDA," AmericanRadioWorks,
April 2004. Michael Montgomery and Stephen Smith tell the story of
individuals who defied the killers during the 1994 Rwandan Genocide and saved
thousands.
"MANDELA
-- AN AUDIO HISTORY," AmericanRadioWorks,
2004.
A five-part documentary series chronicling the anti-Apartheid movement in
South Africa.
RWANDAN WOMEN, Tavis
Smiley Show, February 21, 2003. Photojournalist Kimberlee Acquaro
explains how some women who survived the 1994 genocide are not helping to
transform the nation.
"KENNETH
KAUNDA," Connection,
September 6, 2002: An interview with the man who was President of Zambia
for 27 years.
BYSTANDERS TO GENOCIDE,
Connection, September 5, 2001. An analysis of American political
leaders' response to the 1994 genocide.
SOUTH AFRICA'S TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION,
All Things Considered, October 19, 1998. Correspondent Charlayne
Hunter-Gault offers a five-part series on the TRC upon the wrapping up of its
two-and-a-half years of work.
SOUTH AFRICA'S TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION,
Talk of the Nation, September 5, 1996. An analysis early in the
process of South Africans attempting to heal the wounds from the apartheid
era.