Africa
8 Jul, 1999
960 History of Africa
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss Africa. It could be seen as the great test of the West; economically, intellectually, spiritually. The “dark continent” was seen as a source of power for the West through its natural resources, a place of harvest for western religious missionaries, a prize area for anthropologists - a dark continent to be illuminated by our western lights. Now, darker, all but extinguished some think, by the attentions of its invaders, Africa is outside the take-up of the twentieth century it seems. But is this received view is merely cliched and too easily pessimistic.
Guests
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Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr No other episodes
Chair of the Afro-American Studies Department, Harvard University -
Anthony Sampson No other episodes
Writer, journalist and author of Mandela: The Authorised Biography
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