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- During the 1800s, paroled Brazilian bandit Cobra Verde is sent to West Africa with a few troops to man an old Portuguese fort and to convince the local African ruler to resume the slave trade with Brazil.
- Inspector Boniface Koomsin, a Ghanaian police detective, embarks on a dangerous, crime-laden journey to recover the one thing he needs to realize his ultimate dream-- to escape the ghosts of his past and return to America.
- The rise and legacy of Toronto's nine-time Queen of Carnival, Joella Crichton who is aiming to win a historic tenth crown in her last ever performance.
- Fetu Afahye is the annual festival of the Cape Coast people of Ghana.Combining academic research and up-close collection of scenery, slave castles, masquerades, night rituals and sacrifices, Fetu Afahye delves into this explosive cultural phenomenon.
- American Hunger explores the relationship between personal experience and collective histories. Specifically, the relationship between African American modernity and the history from which it has arrived. Oscillating between Philadelphia and New Jersey in the United States, and Cape Coast and Accra in Ghana, American Hunger, takes a direct approach to montage and composition counterpointing visual dialect lyricism with the concerns of narrative film. American fantasies confront African realities. African realities confront America fantasies. African fantasies confront American realities. American realities confront African
- In A black and white reality, all that matters is the color of memory.
- Host Victoria Wood continues her tour of former British colonies - Queen Victoria's Empire - by visiting Ghana, Jamaica and Newfoundland. In Ghana, the focus is on how the British perfected the slave trade and the impact that has had on modern Ghanaian society. Many of those slaves were transported to Jamaica to work on sugar plantations. She explores what connection, if any, still exists between the two countries. Lastly she visits Newfoundland and visits the site to which Queen Victoria sent the first trans-Atlantic message via undersea cable.
- Leon and Wanda return from Ghana to a very different world than the one they left behind.