Witness History Episodes Available now
Sarah Baartman's 200-year journey back home
The campaign to return Sarah Baartman to South Africa nearly 200 years after her death
Oliver Tambo returns to South Africa from exile
Oliver Tambo returned to South Africa in 1990 after 30 years in exile
Brenda Fassie: Madonna of the townships
Brenda Fassie was a popular South African pop star, dubbed the 'Madonna of the townships'
Soweto uprising: Children who marched against apartheid
In 1976, an uprising was sparked when demonstrating children were gunned down
South Africa's referendum on apartheid
The last whites-only vote in South Africa was held in 1992
Major Charity Adams and the Six-Triple-Eight
The first African-American woman to lead a World War Two battalion
Deadly Everest avalanche
In 2014, an avalanche in the Khumbu Icefall killed 16 sherpas on Mount Everest
West Africa's Ebola virus epidemic
In 2014, Sierra Leone was devastated by Africa's biggest Ebola outbreak on record
The friendship train: Connecting India and Bangladesh
In 2008, India and Bangladesh were reconnected by train after 43 years
Egypt and the ‘Cairo 52’
In May 2001, 52 men were arrested in a gay nightclub floating on the River Nile