Africa Eye - Season 7 / Year 2024

A VHS tape of a preacher performing ‘miracles' changes two teenagers' lives forever.

Trapped in TB Joshua's church in Lagos, his disciples are drawn deeper into his abuse.

Joshua's church guest house collapses, killing 116 people. Could this disaster expose him?

The Mayor of Freetown, Yvonne Aki-Sawyerr, has won international plaudits for addressing many of the issues facing the capital of one of Africa's poorest countries. But as she bids for re-election for a second term, she finds herself on the front line of a democratic crisis.

BBC Africa Eye investigates the trafficking of Malawian women to Oman. Enticed by offers of domestic work, many find themselves trapped in servitude. Through WhatsApp voice notes, videos, and texts, the documentary reveals their abusive ordeal, as well as exposing the tactics used by agents to lure women to the Middle East.
Trapped in Oman also follows a group of extraordinary women who, working across three continents, fight to bring the women home, often against impossible odds.

Five years after the declaration of a national state of emergency over rape and sexual violence, Sierra Leone is still grappling with shocking levels of gender-based violence.
Africa Eye investigates.

South Africa's murder rate is now at a twenty-year high – one of the highest in the world. There were more than twenty-seven thousand murders last year. With trust in the police falling, Ayanda Charlie meets the frontline communities who are fighting back.

At least one elderly person loses their life every week in the name of witchcraft along Kenya's stunning Kilifi coast. Violence against alleged witches occur across swathes of Africa and beyond, but the estimated 70 deaths every year here are about much more than fear of the supernatural. Meeting victims, relatives and even perpetrators, Africa Eye investigates the real motives that fuel these brutal incidents, revealing that many victims are under threat from the very people who should be protecting them - their own families.

One of the worst mass killers in South Africa's history is free from prison. He is finally ready to speak; and thirty years on, his victims are still fighting for closure and justice.

More than 20,000 women are estimated to be engaged in sex work in Sierra Leone. For four years, film-maker Tyson Conteh was given unprecedented access to document the dangers that sex workers face in his hometown of Makeni. Tyson exposes the threats of trafficking, violence, drug addiction, disease and even death that this vulnerable community navigate daily.

Cape Verdean rapper Ga DaLomba, reporting for BBC Africa Eye, investigates ‘Highway 10' a transatlantic drug smuggling route from South America to Europe, via West Africa. He also searches for an alleged drug trafficker known as ‘Fox' who Brazilian police believe is the mastermind of an operation to transport 1 tonne of cocaine.

BBC Africa Eye investigates what is fast becoming the world's deadliest migration route: the perilous Atlantic crossing from West Africa to Spain's Canary Islands.