Episode 4
Noo witnesses the devastating effect of desertification on the edges of the Sahara, reaches a low point in her journey and finds tranquility in a mountain kingdom.
Noo Saro-Wiwa was brought up in England, but every summer she was dragged back to Nigeria - a country she viewed as an annoying parallel universe where she had to relinquish all her creature comforts and sense of individuality. Then her father, activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed there by the military government causing international outrage, and she didn't return for 10 years. Recently, she decided to rediscover and come to terms with the country her father loved. In today's episode, she encounters the devastating effect of desertification on the edges of the Sahara and finds tranquility in a mountain kingdom.
Read by Janice Acquah
Abridged by Laurence Wareing
Produced by Gaynor Macfarlane.
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- Thu 5 Jan 2012 09:45Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4 FM
- Fri 6 Jan 2012 00:30Βι¶ΉΤΌΕΔ Radio 4
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