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Howard French has written an acclaimed new book putting Africa and Africans front and centre in their contribution to the making of the modern world.

Ian Dunt gives us an update on how the United Kingdom is responding to the escalating war in Ukraine. Then Al Jazeera's Nicolas Haque gives us an overview of what's been behind the recent political unrest in several West African countries. And finally National Geographic Explorer Tara Roberts takes us under the sea, where she and a group of Black divers have been unearthing the stories of the millions of Africans lost on shipwrecks during the transatlantic slave trade.

President Joe Biden has to make some big decisions about the US response to Ukraine. Wheat shortages will impact both Ukrainian and Russian populations, and will affect many other countries too. Rose de Freycinet, wife of French explorer and cartographer Louis de Freycinet, stowed away on his ship.

Nour Haydar's Canberra, the nuclear threat in Ukraine and the legacy of Shane Warne and his place in the history of sport.

Journalist and author Troy Bramston has written a mammoth biography of former Prime Minister Bob Hawke, shedding light on even more of his personal foibles and political achievements. And former publisher and journalist Julianne Schultz's book 'The idea of Australia' combines decades of observations about how our country needs to find its soul, and a more unified sense of purpose.

Bruce Shapiro gives us his analysis of President Biden's State of the Union, Philippe Sands explains the case for returning the Chagos Islands to Mauritius and Georgina Arnott looks at the changing ideas of poet Judith Wright through her essays

News from around the Pacific with Tess Newton Cain and the youth creating job opportunities in Gaza. Plus, a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian tells the true story of the mutiny on the Bounty.

Laura Tingle on war, floods and the upcoming election, Russian troops advance towards Ukraine's capital Kyiv and are we eating ourselves to extinction?

The pandemic has caused a worker shortage, yet there's a missed opportunity with older workers. A new book about black British nurse Mary Seacole tackles some of the myths and gaps in the story of her life in the 1800s.

Ian Dunt assesses the UK's response to the Ukraine crisis, we go back 50 years to that fateful trip by President Nixon to China and Nick Oliver reads some of his grandfather's letters of complaint.