Focus on Africa
Hosted by Nkechi Ogbonna and Charles Gitonga · BBC World Service
4.5from 671 ratings
- 1,042
- Episodes
- 661
- Transcribed
- 671
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2016
- First episode
- 332M
- YouTube views
About Focus on Africa
Two essential stories to round off your working day. Explaining the news from Africa. Hosted by Nkechi Ogbonna.
- Publisher
- BBC World Service
- Category
- news
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 25 May 2016
- Latest episode
- 18 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
661 of 1,042 episodes have a transcript.
18 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Is Nigeria ready for a female leader?
17 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
South Africa probes discovery of women bodies
16 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Thousands flee to Djibouti amid Yemeni fighting
Inside a recent episode
Is Nigeria ready for a female leader?
Published 18 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And it's unfortunate that in how we make decisions for who we would vote for, Nigerians have not gotten to that place where we vote on the basis of character, competence, capacity, credibility. We haven't gotten there. But you mentioned earlier that women are always canvassing for votes. They go through the grits of forming the organizations, pushing primaries or campaigns and all of that. So if these women are credible enough and competent enough to do the back end of the work, why can't they be the front runners? And that, for me, is the question that we have to answer in Nigeria. But it will interest you to know that there was a research that came out earlier this year. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Ufuoma Nnamdi-Udeh
- Zainab Buba Galadima
- Fally Ipupa
- Olamide Adeyeye
- Titilayo Nwosu
Reach and audience
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- YouTube views
- 331,711,253
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 358 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 313 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
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- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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Nkechi Ogbonna and Charles Gitonga host the show. Published by BBC World Service.
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