Afrika - Cape Town to Cairo

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Afrika - Cape Town to Cairo
Written by
  • Michael Davie
  • Marcus Gillezeau
Directed byMichael Davie
Presented byMichael Davie
ComposerFelicity Fox
Country of originAustralia
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes4
Production
Executive producerGeoff Barnes
Producers
  • Ellenor Cox
  • Marcus Gillezeau
EditorKeith Lynch
Running time25 minutes
Original release
Network ABC
Release19 November (1998-11-19) [1]  –
10 December 1998 (1998-12-10)

Afrika - Cape Town to Cairo was an Australian documentary series created by Michael Davie and broadcast by the ABC in 1998. The four episode series followed Davie as he travelled from Cape Town to Cairo [2] [3] On his travels he documented police brutality, street kids, homeless prostitutes, land mine victims, drugs, human right abuses and teen millionaires. [1] [4] Davie, who was born in Zimbabwe, shot it over seven months on a lightweight digital camera. [5]

The Courier Mail's L Haas says the episodes are "so bursting with energy, passion and unexpected turns, it is immediately and totally addictive." [6] Bruce Elder from The Sydney Morning Herald called it "This is a wonderful combination of investigative journalism (during the journey he exposes the plight of street kids in Bulawayo and the Tanzanian Government's involvement in the heroin trade) and old-style. "what will happen next", adventure travelling." [5] The series won the Best Local Infotainment/Entertainment category in The Sydney Morning Herald's 1998 Couch Potato Awards where Elder declared "The winner, because journalists are suckers for innovation combined with oodles of youthful craziness and bravado. was Michael Davie's extraordinary series Afrika: Cape Town to Cairo." [7]

The series soundtrack album Afrika: Cape Town To Cairo, by Felicity Fox, [8] was nominated for the ARIA Music Award for Best Original Soundtrack Album in 1999. [9]

Episodes

  1. Warriors and Witchdoctors
  2. Home is Where the Landmines Are
  3. Slobs in Paradise
  4. Delinquents, Tribes and Millionaires

References

  1. 1 2 Shaw, Megan (19 November 1998), "Out of Africa", The Age
  2. ↑ "Afrika - Cape Town to Cairo", Torres News, 4 December 1998
  3. ↑ Australian Centre for the Moving Image. "Afrika: Cape Town to Cairo". Australian Centre for the Moving Image. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
  4. ↑ Hughes, Simon (19 November 1998), "Grasping at the last fragments of childhood", The Age
  5. 1 2 Elder, Bruce (16 November 1998), "Into the dark heart", The Sydney Morning Herald
  6. ↑ Haas, L (18 November 1998), "From peep show to pyramids", The Courier Mail
  7. ↑ Elder, Bruce (21 December 1998), "And the winners are...", The Sydney Morning Herald
  8. ↑ Meade, Amanda (16 November 1998), "Out of Toowoomba", The Australian
  9. ↑ Australian Recording Industry Association. "1999 ARIA Award Winers". Australian Recording Industry Association. Retrieved 11 August 2025.
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