Highlights from the 1985 Afroscene season:
- John Hammond (1933-2012) lists all the (attempted) coups in the continent that year – November 1985
- Reverend Beyers-Naudé, Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches on apartheid – June 1985
- Winnie Mandela in IKON documentary on her 22nd wedding anniversary, talking very movingly about her love for her husband, Nelson – June 1985
- East Africa correspondent, Koert Lindijer, talks to Tanzania’s President Julius Nyerere on development aid and the debt issue – March 1985
- Dutch Nobel Peace Prize winner Jan Tinbergen discusses development aid – February 1985
- Veronica Wilson’s feature on the Royal Tropical Institute at 75, its history, its work today, plus people in the field who did research