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African Journeys
Summary : 3/4. The Men in Khaki: Aidan Hartley travels to West Africa to talk to two men who were once the world's youngest leaders.
Details : 3/4. The Men in Khaki: Aidan Hartley travels to West Africa to talk to two men who were once the world's youngest leaders.Aidan Hartley investigates the corruption and mismanagement by politicians across the continent of Africa which effectively keeps the rural population in a state of poverty.
3/4. The Men in Khaki
Aidan Hartley travels to West Africa to talk to two men who were once the world's youngest leaders - Jerry Rawlings who seized power in Ghana aged 32, and Valentine Strasser, who took over in Sierra Leone aged 26.
Both young military officers seemed to offer new hope for their countries. Now, Rawlings is Ghana's elder statesman, while Strasser spends his days drinking palm wine at a roadside shack and lives at home with his mother.
Starts 2007-01-10 11:00:00, Ends 2007-01-10 11:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 4
African Journeys
Summary : 4/4. Brave New World: Aidan Hartley travels to the Kenya/Uganda border to explore the 'jua kali' world, where people make a living in the 'informal economy'.
Details : 4/4. Brave New World: Aidan Hartley travels to the Kenya/Uganda border to explore the 'jua kali' world, where people make a living in the 'informal economy'.Aidan Hartley investigates the corruption and mismanagement by politicians across the continent of Africa which effectively keeps the rural population in a state of poverty.
4/4. Brave New World
By the 1980s, Africa's economies were in such a ruinous state that the World Bank and IMF insisted on 'structural adjustment'. State industries were privatised and civil servants sacked.
The result was a huge rise in the number of people making a living in the 'informal economy', often holding several subsistence-level jobs at once. In Kenya it's known as 'jua kali' - literally 'working in the hot sun'. Aidan Hartley travels to the Kenya/Uganda border to explore the jua kali world.
Starts 2008-01-03 22:45:00, Ends 2008-01-03 23:00:00 and is on for 15 minutes and on BBC Radio 4
Starts 2007-01-17 11:00:00, Ends 2007-01-17 11:30:00 and is on for 30 minutes and on BBC Radio 4
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