Clive Myrie's African Adventure

A newsreader sets off on a journey across the continent, beginning in Soweto, to explore his own ancestry. Along the way he reunites with old friends and embarks on new adventures while tracing the story of his deeply personal family roots.

Soweto is a television programme presented as a single episode. It falls within the genre of episodic storytelling and centres on a newsreader as the principal figure. The title signals the starting point of the narrative, anchoring the series in the South African township of Soweto. The episode follows the newsreader as he embarks on a continental journey. Along the way he reconnects with friends he has known from earlier in his life, while also encountering fresh experiences that push him into new adventures. As he moves from place to place, he gradually pieces together the tale of his own family background, using each stop to uncover another fragment of his lineage. The structure of the programme is built around this personal quest, beginning in Soweto and expanding outward across the African continent. Each encounter serves both as a reunion with familiar faces and as an opportunity to learn something new about his heritage, linking personal memory with broader geographic movement. In this way, the episode weaves together themes of friendship, discovery and ancestry, all rooted in the initial setting of Soweto. The narrative remains focused on the newsreader’s perspective, tracing his roots while he travels through diverse locales across the continent. It remains a concise yet expansive portrait of his journey.