First Time Africa

Sweepstakes winners from Detroit travel to Senegal, West Africa.

Four Los Angeles students accompany their teacher back to her homeland of Ghana, West Africa, where they meet a group of school children on a remote island and vow to become their sponsors.

From Martha's Vineyard, Mass. to a small town in Uganda, best friends Lila Fischer and Hannah Kahl adjust to local ways and come to feel at home as they work with maternity centers near the South Sudan border.

News and television cameraman Martin Proctor travels to Cuba on a search to find his beloved Cuban cigars and explore the island.

The founder of a successful Los Angeles-based sign spinning business and his top spinner travel to Johannesburg in order to expand the brand.

A Brooklyn-based filmmaker heads to Ghana to shoot a local artist's music video and connect with a continent and a people he wants to know better.