title: The Africa Channel
text: # The Africa Channel
  
  The Africa Channel is a cable and streaming channel focusing on travel, lifestyle, and culture documentaries. The channel covers the lands, people, culture, and history of Africa. Co-founded by Zimbabwean James Makawa, the Africa Channel launched in the United States in September 2005.
  
  The Africa Channel is broadcast in the United States through Comcast, Charter Communications, Cox Communications and also available in Jamaica, the Bahamas, Trinidad & Tobago, St. Lucia, Barbados, Bermuda, Grenada and other islands throughout the Caribbean.
  
  The channel launched in high definition on August 1, 2010.
  
  The Africa Channel is an associate member of the Caribbean Cable Cooperative and is distinct from the international version of The Africa Channel which launched in September 2007. The African Channel is a showcase for English language television series, specials, documentaries, feature films, music, soaps, biographies, current business analysis, cultural and historical programs.
  
  In 2017, The Africa Channel launched the streaming service Demand Africa.
  
  ## Programs
  
  * Africa on a Plate, follow a chef as he tours Africa's cuisines
  * African Masters, about the arts
  * House of Tayo about a Rwandan fashion designer
  * Jabu's Jungle
  