Every episode, every dossier.
The full syllabus. Search by country, coup, love story or Cold War alibi.
13 episodes
Mon 1 September
Zanzibar, prophecies and holy missions
"Sultans, spice, a very short war and a revolution nobody expected."
The 39 minute war, the 1964 revolution, and the island that kept being fought over.
Mon 25 August
Equatorial Guinea, dictators and the mind
"Macías, Obiang and a country ruled from a very dark place."
What happens when a whole nation is held hostage by one man's paranoia. This one is heavy. We warned you.
Mon 18 August
Namibia, the Herero and Nama, and the banned book
"The 20th century's first genocide, and the words nobody was allowed to read."
German South West Africa, the concentration camps history forgot, and the book that finally said it out loud.
Mon 11 August
Madagascar, on repeat
"Queens, uprisings, and a colony that fought like hell."
Back by popular demand. The Madagascar episode we cannot stop getting emails about.
Mon 4 August
Mali and the great Timbuktu book heist
"Manuscripts, motorbikes and the librarians who outran an army."
How Mali's most brilliant men and women smuggled centuries of scholarship out of the city, one crate at a time.
Mon 28 July
Liberia, and coming back from America
"Freed people, borrowed flags and a country built on complicated ground."
The Americo-Liberian story, the settlers, the settled, and everyone caught in between.
Mon 21 July
Egypt, on repeat
"Nasser, the canal and a very cold summer."
A re-release for anyone who missed the Suez saga first time round.
Mon 14 July
The hostage crisis nobody talks about
"Stanleyville, mercenaries and a rescue that reads like fiction."
The second DRC episode. Because one was never going to be enough.
Mon 7 July
DRC, Lumumba and the CIA
"One speech, one plane, one very ugly plot."
Patrice Lumumba lasted 200 days. This is why, who wanted him gone, and what they were willing to do to make it happen.
Mon 30 June
Botswana and a very forbidden romance
"A king, an English typist, and an empire losing its mind."
Seretse Khama and Ruth Williams, and how a love story rearranged southern Africa.
Mon 23 June
Ghana, Nkrumah and the Accra Riots
"Ex-servicemen, boycotts and a very British ambush."
The riots the empire pretended were nothing. And the man who turned them into a whole new country.
Mon 16 June
Togo and the very first coup
"How independence turned on a single Sunday morning."
Sylvanus Olympio, a border in the wrong place, and the coup that set the tone for a whole continent.
Mon 9 June
Comoros, on repeat
"The islands that kept getting couped."
A re-release of the episode you keep asking us about. Mercenaries, missing presidents and a country that never quite catches a break.