Aerial Africa
2017 South African TV series or programme
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Aerial Africa is a television series made for the Smithsonian Channel. Each episode is an aerial video tour of a country or region in Africa, in a similar format to Aerial America (2010–19). The narrated show consists entirely of aerial scenes using the Cineflex V14HD gyro-stabilized camera system mounted under the "chin" of a helicopter.[1][2] It was narrated by Nigerian-American Ike Amadi.[3] It is the first and only season covered Southern Africa.[4]
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| Narrated by | Ike Amadi |
| Country of origin | South Africa |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 7 |
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| Executive producer | Peter Lamberti |
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| Running time | 48 minutes |
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| Network | Smithsonian Channel |
| Release | July 14, 2017 – May 6, 2018 |
Episodes
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| 1 | "Wild South Coast" | July 14, 2017 | |
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Covers the south coast of South Africa. | |||
| 2 | "Spirit of Ubuntu" | 2017 | |
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Covers Swaziland (since 2018 renamed to Eswatini) and central and eastern South Africa, including Table Mountain, the Cape Winelands, Augrabies Falls, Johannesburg and the Garden Route. | |||
| 3 | "Botswana: Okavango to Kwando" | 2017 | |
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Botswana from the air. | |||
| 4 | "Western Cape" | 2018 | |
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South Africa's Western Cape province. | |||
| 5 | "Namibia" | 2018 | |
| 6 | "Zambia" | 2018 | |
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Zambia from the air, including Victoria Falls, the Zambezi, Lusaka, the Luangwa Valley, Kafue National Park and the Bangweulu Wetlands. | |||
| 7 | "Kruger National Park" | May 6, 2018 | |
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Kruger National Park, located in the northeast corner of South Africa. | |||