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Episode seventeen - taking Africa's fate out of African hands.

Exploring the highly evolved pre-colonial societies of the Asante, the Baganda, and the Massai, and the consequences of Europe's decision to bring 'western civilisation' to what they called the 'dark continent'.

"If you read the story of John Speke discovering the source of the Nile, he asked an African who told him where it started, went there, then announced he had discovered the source of the Nile. It was meant to be a major discovery. But a discovery for who?" Professor Bethwell Ogot, Maseno University, Kenya.

Presented by Hugh Quarshie.