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SOUND AFRICA is a space for creative non-fiction from the African continent. We are licensed by the Composers Authors & Publishers Association of South Africa
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Whips, fedoras and cliff-hangers make for great cinema, but they also shape how we tell real scientific stories. In our Season 2 finale, we...

Behind one of science’s greatest breakthroughs lies a darker story of skulls measured, bodies taken, and lives diminished in the name of sci...

In 1924, a mineworker in Taung likely held the fossilized skull of a three-year-old child before anyone else. That child, later named the Ta...

100 years ago, a tiny fossil skull in Taung, South Africa rewrote human history. The Taung Skull proved that humankind’s roots lie in Africa...

Unburied is back for season 2: The Taung Child. A century after the fossilised skull of a three-year-old surfaced at the Northern Limeworks...

In this ARC Interview: " What’s Real About Race?" we speak with Dr. Phila Msimang , a philosopher at Stellenbosch University whose research...

In his book Letters of Stone professor Steven Robbins tells the deeply moving story of his quest to find out what happened to the family mem...

This is the first in our new episode format: ARC Interviews — conversations with people whose stories and work challenge the way we see the...

As Rudolf Pöch prepared to leave Southern Africa in 1910, he left behind a legacy of exhumed graves, stolen bones, and silenced voices. But...

In the 1970s, a bookish young man was sorting shelves in a dusty library in apartheid South Africa. He noticed something strange — the way b...

Inside an archive in Vienna, the grooves of old wax cylinders hold forgotten voices. These are the sonic remains of Rudolf Pöch’s expedition...

In 1907, an Austrian anthropologist rode into the Kalahari on an oxwagon and left with bones from more than 170 human beings. This episode b...

Unburied Season 1: Built from Bones Season one of the Unburied series retraces the footsteps of Dr. Rudolf Pöch, an Austrian anthropologist...

We've got news: Sound Africa is becoming ARC. A new name for a new vision, but the mission stays the same. Independent, non-profit documenta...

In this final episode of Hustling The African Dream we look at where the term "hustle" actually comes from, how it has evolved over time and...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode we speak to one truly remarkable...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Pr...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Pr...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Pr...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about about innovative young Africans and their hustles and in this episode Mastercard Foundation Sc...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Pr...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Pr...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Pr...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. In this episode Mastercard Foundation Scholars Pr...

Hustling the African Dream is a podcast about innovative young Africans and their hustles. Produced in collaboration with The Human Sciences...

In this final episode Adhel, Saree and Michael adjust to their new relationship. Credits: Sound track and theme song is Arusu by Hardlife Av...

In this episode we are introduced to Adhel Ring - Michael's friend who later becomes Saree's co-wife. Credits: Sound track and theme song, A...

In this first episode of, Arusa - A New Bride, we go back to the beginning when Michael Mading first meets his first wife Saree in Californi...

By engaging with politics, citizens can demand justice and good governance from their governments and leaders. But women political activists...

Student leader Ruth Yitbarek wants more Ethiopian women to understand their rights and speak up for themselves. She speaks about the Yellow...

How do you prove that the home you fled was unsafe, if you could never report the violence you faced there? Thomars Shamuyarira is a Zimbabw...

What’s it like being a vocal African woman online? Entrepreneur Carol Ndosi discusses the importance of women’s voices on the internet in Ta...

It’s not easy standing up to the most powerful man in the country, but that is what Toufah Jallow did when she accused Gambia’s former presi...

Ugandan writer Rosebell Kagumire edits an African feminist blog. She discusses the importance of curating these voices and how allies with l...

As a young girl, when Lusungu Kalanga saw inequalities in her community, she didn’t have a language for it. Today, she creates safe spaces f...

Visual storyteller Kiki Mordi produced an award-winning documentary about sex for grades in Nigerian and Ghanaian universities. As part of a...

Naked Protest: Public nakedness has been documented as a means of political protest worldwide in vastly different cultural contexts. We expl...

A Leadership Revolution: African states are often described as “irremediably corrupt; ‘hopeless’; ‘criminal’; ‘ungovernable’ or generally in...

Joy As Resistance: It’s a curious feature of autocratic regimes that forms of joy are usually banned. We explore how democratic governments...

Research on legal and judicial processes has revealed biases in the treatment of women in courts both as witnesses, and accused. We explore...

Rule of Law: Given the importance of the rule of law as an instrument for promoting social, political, and economic development all of which...

So Where to From Here: Covid-19 has brought with it an increase in homelessness and loss of shelter across the continent. Can the courts pro...

We See You: Access to land, property and housing rights continue to be contentious conflict riddled issues on the continent. But, is Anarchy...

There’s a huge global political debate about food production, profit and sustainability. We explore some of the challenges farmers face on t...

The Cost of Power: In this episode we dive into how Africa’s natural resources are managed and the implications of mismanagement on democrac...

This introductory episode starts from the very beginning by asking if Africa is headed in the right direction? It also asks what type of see...

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There is one person we know for sure saw what happened when Siphiwe was shot in Snake Park. His name is Lebogang, and we know he was there b...
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