TED Talks
TED: Meet mini-grids — the clean energy solution bringing power to millions | Tombo Banda
Hundreds of millions of people lack access to electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa, relying on highly polluting diesel and firewood for power and light. Working to brighten the future in her home country of Malawi and beyond, energy access...
SciShow
The World's First Malaria Vaccine Gets a Shot in Africa | SciShow News
Last week, the World Health Organization announced that a malaria vaccine has finally made it through all the regulatory hurdles and is being distributed in the country of Malawi. Learn how it works and why it’s taken so long to develop...
Curated Video
Rock star demands more help for African Aids sufferers
1. Exterior of summit venue
2. Armed security arrive in truck
3. Uganda's President Museveni followed by South Africa's President Mbeki arriving
4. Guard of honour
5. Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe arriving
6. Other delegations and...
TED Talks
TED: Medical tech designed to meet Africa's needs | Soyapi Mumba
In sub-Saharan Africa, power outages, low technology penetration, slow internet and understaffed hospitals plague health care systems. To make progress on these problems in Malawi, TED Fellow Soyapi Mumba and his team created a new...
TED Talks
TED: The next generation of African architects and designers | Christian Benimana
Christian Benimana wants to build a network of architects who can help Africa's booming cities flourish in sustainable, equitable ways -- balancing growth with values that are uniquely African. From Nigeria to Burkina Faso and beyond, he...
TED Talks
TED: A warrior’s cry against child marriage | Memory Banda
Memory Banda’s life took a divergent path from her sister’s. When her sister reached puberty, she was sent to a traditional “initiation camp” that teaches girls “how to sexually please a man.” She got pregnant there — at age 11. Banda,...
SciShow
The World's First Malaria Vaccine Gets a Shot in Africa | SciShow News
Last week, the World Health Organization announced that a malaria vaccine has finally made it through all the regulatory hurdles and is being distributed in the country of Malawi. Learn how it works and why it’s taken so long to develop...
TED Talks
William Kamkwamba: How I harnessed the wind
At age 14, in poverty and famine, a Malawian boy built a windmill to power his family's home. Now at 22, William Kamkwamba, who speaks at TED, here, for the second time, shares in his own words the moving tale of invention that changed...
Curated Video
Football for a Cause: Fighting Malaria and HIV/AIDS through Charity Matches
The video highlights how football is being used as a powerful tool to raise awareness and funds for important causes such as malaria and HIV/AIDS. It showcases the efforts of FC Barcelona, Manchester United, and other football legends in...
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Jane Chikapa - Teaching in the Global Pandemic - Malawi
Jane Chikapa is a top fifty Global Teacher Prize finalist. Jane teaches English in a secondary school located on the edge of Lake Malawi – an area where many people value working in the fishing business over the pursuit of education....
Next Animation Studio
World’s first malaria vaccine introduced in Africa
The World Health Organization has implemented a large-scale malaria vaccine pilot program for 360,000 children across Africa.
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SURVIVOR'S GUIDE - Relative Values
In many parts of Malawi girls have a very low social status. In the more traditional communities, such as amongst the Yao people, young girls and boys go through initiation rites as they move into adulthood. In some cases girls are...
SWPictures
Helping Social Entrepreneurs - Partners in Health
Partners In Health believes helping these patients means dealing with their social problems as well as providing drug therapy. In this episode of Helping Social Entrepreneurs, Alvin Hall comes face to face with what it’s like to be poor...
SWPictures
WHO'S AFRAID OF HIV? - Malawi
Nearly 25 million people in sub-Saharan Africa have the HIV virus. There are half a million AIDS orphans in Malawi alone
Jabzy
Rhodesian Bush War - 3 Minute History
In this video, Jabzy brings us historical tidbits and unknown facts about the Rhodesian Bush War
Ancient Lights Media
Atlas of Africa: Geography and People of Southern Africa
This program examines the geography and people of Southern Africa with a closer look at Apartheid
Press Association
Interview with farmer in Malawi on effects of climate change
Interview with farmer, Malita Mussa, a single mother-of-six who lives in the Machinga district in southern Malawi.
The agriculture-dominated country is threatened by an increase in extreme weather events, including cyclones.
Malita and...
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Madonna on how Malawi has changed her, how she's become less judgmental, and on how life is not supposed to be taken literally at the Interview at the Majestic Hotel/Salon Royan II Room in Cannes on May 22, 2008. (Footage by...
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MS, Children in school uniforms passing abandoned building, low section, Lilongwe, Malawi
MS, Children in school uniforms passing abandoned building, low section, Lilongwe, Malawi
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Interview
INTERVIEW: Madonna on how she handled herself among the poverty in Malawi, and on how she's irrationally generous at times at the Interview at the Majestic Hotel/Salon Royan II Room in Cannes on May 22, 2008. (Footage by WireImage...
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A tree nursery on the Zomba Plateau, Malawi, Africa.
A tree nursery on the Zomba Plateau, Malawi, Africa.
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CU, Broken Coke bottles on top of brick wall, Lilongwe, Malawi
CU, Broken Coke bottles on top of brick wall, Lilongwe, Malawi
Curated Video
Madonna leaves Malawi after adoption setback
1. Wide of airport control tower in distance
2. Wide shot of hangar in distance
3. Various of plane carrying Madonna taking off
Madonna left Malawi on her private jet on Sunday after being rebuffed in an attempt to adopt a second child...
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CLEAN : Malawi president registers for election re-run
Thousands of supporters throng the streets of Malawi's main commercial city Blantyre as President Peter Mutharika registers his candidacy for a re-run of presidential elections (Footage by AFPTV via Getty Images)