May 14, 2012 -- Updated 0950 GMT (1750 HKT) See also: Up close with Rwanda's mountain gorillas May 12, 2012 -- Updated 1521 GMT (2321 HKT) Weddings in Nigeria are colorful, creative and extravagant productions, with guest lists of up to 2,000 people considered standard. April 30, 2012 -- Updated 1036 GMT (1836 HKT) Filmmaker Keith Scholey has decades of experience filming wildlife, but when it came to predicting lion and cheetah behavior, it proved of little use. April 13, 2012 -- Updated 1433 GMT (2233 HKT) For centuries, Timbuktu has existed in the Western imagination as a byword for the most exotic, far-flung place conceivable. April 19, 2012 -- Updated 0320 GMT (1120 HKT) Hidden high among the forested volcanoes of central Africa, the mountain gorilla was unknown to science until 1902. April 10, 2012 -- Updated 0852 GMT (1652 HKT) For Rwanda's national cycling team, survivors of its genocide, cycling is proving to have an unlikely healing power. April 17, 2012 -- Updated 1102 GMT (1902 HKT) South Africa's bush trackers showcase an ancient skill being lost to modernity. March 21, 2012 -- Updated 0546 GMT (1346 HKT) If New York, London, Paris and Milan have been the traditional compass points of world fashion, Lagos has typically not even figured on the map. March 19, 2012 -- Updated 1410 GMT (2210 HKT) You would be forgiven for thinking this was a typical urban concert in the U.S. -- but it's thousands of miles away in Gabon. March 13, 2012 -- Updated 1209 GMT (2009 HKT) Hundreds of thousands of indigenous people survive on the forests in the Congo Basin. Now, GPS tech is helping them to map out land rights. In most of Africa, football reigns supreme among sports, but in Senegal wrestling challenges it for popularity. March 7, 2012 -- Updated 1122 GMT (1922 HKT) The leatherback turtle is the largest member of the turtle family, one of the world's biggest reptiles, outsized only by some crocodile. February 29, 2012 -- Updated 1039 GMT (1839 HKT) Without a doubt, the biggest name in Senegalese drumming is Doudou N'Diaye Rose. every person I interviewed spoke of him as the "sabar master." February 23, 2012 -- Updated 1231 GMT (2031 HKT) Move over Disney -- a Nigerian animator has produced an educational cartoon to teach youngsters about African culture.