Comedian Fatiha El-Ghorri paints an evocative picture of her family's home town, the fishing port of Larache in Morocco. But will she persuade Shaun to brave the hungry mosquitoes?

Your Place Or Mine is the travel podcast that isn’t going anywhere. Join Shaun as his guests try to convince him that it’s worth getting up off the sofa and seeing the world, giving us a personal guide to their favourite place on the planet. With resident geographer, historian and comedian Iszi Lawrence on hand to share facts, each week a familiar face will try to persuade Shaun that jetting off to their favourite destination is worth the hassle.

Your Place or Mine is a BBC Audio production for BBC Radio 4 and BBC Sounds.

Producers: Becca Bryers & Hannah Hufford

What do you do, if falling in love with someone becomes a matter of life or death? In 2013 Aderonke Apata found herself on a coach in the UK, heading for the airport, about to be deported to Nigeria. She’d left her home country years earlier in fear for her life. Her ‘crime’ was that she loved another woman. Same-sex couples in Nigeria face jail time from the courts and, in Aderonke's situation, the threat of deadly violence at the hands of mobs. As she got on the coach the documents that Aderonke had painstakingly compiled to stop her deportation were still being furiously faxed to the authorities.

At the eleventh hour she was given a reprieve — and so her legal training had begun. She would successfully fight her own case and find herself a new career in the process. Aderonke tells her story to Dr Sian Williams.

A look back at some of the prominent figures on the African continent who we said farewell to this year.

The BBC's Nomsa Maseko looks back at the life of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who has died aged 90.

The last president of a segregated South Africa, who freed Nelson Mandela, and paved the way to majority rule.

The former president, whose decades-long rule sparked massive protests, has died aged 84.

The first president of an independent Zambia, who became one of Africa's elder statesmen, dies at 97.

Killed by rebels, the Chadian president's three decades in power were defined by battles.

Remembering iconic trombonist and exiled anti-apartheid activist Jonas Gwangwa who has died aged 83.

A look back at some of the iconic figures on the African continent who we said farewell to this year.

Olpha Selepe, also known as GeeSixFive, shot to fame with a hit single just weeks before her death.