The Africa channel: two new TV channels, recently launched in the USA and Brazil, hope to change how the world sees Africa and people of African descent. Leslie Goff in Washington and Osei Boateng in London report.

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The Africa channel: two new TV channels, recently launched in the USA and Brazil, hope to change how the world sees Africa and people of African descent. Leslie Goff in Washington and Osei Boateng in London report.

Starving children, tribal warfare, and disease are all that most Americans see of Africa on their television sets. Whether by design or by accident, US television stations present Africa, when they bother to cover it at all, as a "dark continent" with little light in it.

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But with the launch in America in September 2005 of the Africa Channel, a 24-hour cable television station, featuring top quality programming from several African countries, Africa will b...

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