Focus on Africa
Hosted by Nkechi Ogbonna and Blessing Aderogba · BBC World Service
4.5from 676 ratings
- 1,075
- Episodes
- 694
- Transcribed
- 676
- 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
- 4 Nov 2026
Latest episodes
694 of 1,075 episodes have a transcript.
4 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
Fighting in Ethiopia forces thousands into Kenya
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Senegal hosts 2026 Youth Olympics
2 Nov 2026TRANSCRIPT
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Inside a recent episode
Fighting in Ethiopia forces thousands into Kenya
Published 4 Nov 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] Right now, there's the national exams happening, the high school exams, and one of the schools was hit by the stray bullets. So they had to move the students from that school to a different school and they had to sit exams at that school so that to keep them safe away from the stray bullets that have been thrown. […]
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Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.
- Jason
- Cameron Kasambala
- Zizipho Mtwesi
- Chebet Ronoh
- Caroline Kagia
Reach and audience
Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.
- YouTube views
- 331,711,253
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.5 / 5
- 358 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.6 / 5
- 318 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100
A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.
- Quality
- 89
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 93
- Engagement
- 98
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Nkechi Ogbonna and Blessing Aderogba host the show. Published by BBC World Service.
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