
Somewhere on Earth: Best of Africa
A compilation of six episodes from the travel documentary series Somewhere on Earth, each built around a different African region. The Madagascar episode follows baobab forests, coastal nomads, and mountain landscapes on the Red Island. The Bissagos Islands segment visits Guinea-Bissau's isolated river-delta archipelago and meets Marcelinho, a traditional healer in the village of Empincha who blends inherited plant medicine with training from foreign doctors. Malawi covers the plains and highlands around Lake Malawi, which covers a fifth of the country. Cape Verde tours the volcanic, wind-scoured islands off Senegal, and Tanzania moves between Zanzibar, Tarangire National Park, and Kilimanjaro alongside a photographer, a retired natural history professor, and a marathon runner. The Botswana episode closes the collection in the savannas and deserts sometimes called Africa's Garden of Eden. Each segment relies on location footage and local voices rather than a single narrator's argument, giving the series the feel of six standalone travelogues stitched into one long sitting.