| Motto | Nothing stays hidden forever. |
|---|---|
| Area | Worldwide |
| Owner | BBC |
| Parent | BBC World Service |
| Established | 2018 |
Official website | Official website |
| Language | English, Hausa, Swahili and French |
BBC Africa Eye is an investigative branch of the BBC World Service. It has a network of local and investigative journalists and researchers working across Africa and produces a bi-weekly TV and online investigations series broadcast in English, Hausa, Swahili and French. The series focuses on topics that are of interest and concern to young and underserved audience and aims to strengthen and encourage investigative journalism across Africa.
BBC Africa Eye has produced over 100 investigative journalism documentaries in countries such as Nigeria, Kenya, Ghana, Cameroon, Uganda, Ethiopia, Tanzania and South Africa which have won dozens of awards.[citation needed] Productions range from ten minutes to nearly an hour, and include in-depth undercover investigations as well as open-source journalistic investigations. BBC Africa Eye's coverage has been credited with restoring Nigerian audience's faith in Western media.[1] However, researchers have questioned how far the documentaries constitute a departure from typical Western media coverage of Africa.[2]