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Resistance and Liberation

Episode 5 of 5

In the final episode Zeinab Badawi makes a huge and broad sweep across Africa examining the struggle for freedom.

In the final episode Zeinab Badawi makes a huge and broad sweep across Africa examining the struggle for freedom, even in the face of bloody crackdowns: a veteran Mau Mau fighter in Kenya, a member of the resistance in Algeria's brutal war of independence, from one African president whose ancestor fought the French and from the grandson of the Mahdi who defeated Britain's General Gordon. And she talks about that heady time of independence with the families of three of Africa's best known independence leaders: Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah, Congo's Patrice Lumuba and Senegal's Leopold Senghor as well as the son of the legendary Nigerian singer Fela Kuti.

45 minutes

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Sun 30 Aug 2020 21:10GMT

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  • Sat 29 Aug 2020 02:10GMT
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  • Sun 30 Aug 2020 21:10GMT