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Outlook: Outlook Mixtape: Hidden roots; island reburial; boy witness

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17/05/2024 GMT

Outlook Mixtape: Hidden roots; island reburial; boy witness

BBC World Service - Outlook, Outlook Mixtape: Hidden roots; island reburial; boy witness

Your bonus edition with the stories we love this week

The Mapuche activist uniting indigenous women in Argentina; the fight for a proper reburial of enslaved Africans on St Helena; the 12-year-old who took the stand against his dad.

Moira Millán is an indigenous Mapuche activist who has led her people's struggle for rights and representation. But as a child she had no idea of her ancestral roots until an encounter with a stranger challenged the very core of who she thought she was. She ended up travelling the length and breadth of Argentina for almost three years to bring 36 indigenous groups together for the first ever indigenous women's march on the capital.

In 2012, Annina van Neel travelled to the tiny South Atlantic island of St Helena to work as an environmental officer for an airport construction project. After excavators uncovered the remains of more than 300 formerly enslaved Africans, victims of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, Annina turned her attention to the fight for their proper reburial. It was a campaign that would force her to reassess her relationship to her own heritage.

On the day his mother disappeared in December 1989, 11-year-old Collier Landry started looking for evidence. He suspected his father, a rich and well-respected town doctor, had something to do with it. This is the story of Collier's fight to get justice for his mother, and the detective who believed him. 

Award-winning filmmaker Leo Regan forged a close bond with his friend Lanre Fehintola after meeting on a photography course in London. Together they sought to find humanity and beauty in the harshest of settings. Their most personal project became a trilogy of films documenting Lanre's descent into an underworld of drugs and criminality, a project that would define their lives and friendship forever.

Presenter: Asya Fouks
Producer: Thomas Harding Assinder

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