1 00:00:00,500 --> 00:00:05,040 I'm travelling around the most exciting continent 2 00:00:05,040 --> 00:00:06,640 on the planet - Africa. 3 00:00:14,800 --> 00:00:17,560 With more than 50 countries 4 00:00:17,560 --> 00:00:20,080 and hundreds of cultures... 5 00:00:20,080 --> 00:00:23,160 Look at you guys! Yah. 6 00:00:23,160 --> 00:00:25,800 Don't switch over. You are watching the right channel. 7 00:00:25,800 --> 00:00:29,640 ..it's the fastest-growing, most dynamic... 8 00:00:29,640 --> 00:00:31,480 Everybody here's crazy. 9 00:00:31,480 --> 00:00:33,720 Oh, my God. 10 00:00:33,720 --> 00:00:35,920 Come on! 11 00:00:35,920 --> 00:00:39,280 ..and most epic place on Earth. 12 00:00:42,520 --> 00:00:46,720 Oh, man! I'm going to have to pinch myself in a minute. 13 00:00:46,720 --> 00:00:50,120 On this first leg of my trip around sub-Saharan Africa, 14 00:00:50,120 --> 00:00:52,320 I'll be in West Africa. 15 00:00:52,320 --> 00:00:54,840 I'll be travelling from the islands of Cape Verde 16 00:00:54,840 --> 00:00:59,720 to Senegal and Ivory Coast, before I end up in Nigeria. 17 00:01:02,800 --> 00:01:05,360 Life here can be extreme... 18 00:01:05,360 --> 00:01:07,520 This is how we do it. 19 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:12,960 ..and everyone has their own way of getting by. 20 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:14,360 Nice play. 21 00:01:14,360 --> 00:01:15,960 Looks like another checkpoint here. 22 00:01:15,960 --> 00:01:19,000 But cultures are beginning to clash. 23 00:01:20,440 --> 00:01:23,720 There's just so much destruction and waste here. 24 00:01:23,720 --> 00:01:28,360 This is a region on the brink of massive change. 25 00:01:28,360 --> 00:01:30,000 This is only going to grow. 26 00:01:30,000 --> 00:01:33,360 They just don't give up. They're my heroes. 27 00:01:51,720 --> 00:01:54,600 I'm going to start off my journey in Cape Verde. 28 00:01:54,600 --> 00:01:57,240 This is the most westerly point in Africa 29 00:01:57,240 --> 00:02:00,840 and if you think this looks great, it's about to get even better, 30 00:02:00,840 --> 00:02:03,160 as I kick this journey off in style. 31 00:02:07,200 --> 00:02:08,720 OK. 32 00:02:14,960 --> 00:02:16,600 Oh! 33 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:19,800 Oh... 34 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:22,640 We're up! We're up! 35 00:02:25,840 --> 00:02:28,440 Yes, we're flying! 36 00:02:28,440 --> 00:02:30,280 Whoa! 37 00:02:30,280 --> 00:02:32,960 MUSIC: Yaay by Pape & Cheikh 38 00:02:32,960 --> 00:02:36,320 'Cape Verde is one of the smallest countries in Africa.' 39 00:02:38,240 --> 00:02:42,160 Oh, my! This is amazing, this is so beautiful. 40 00:02:42,160 --> 00:02:45,640 'Ten tiny islands in the Atlantic Ocean, 41 00:02:45,640 --> 00:02:48,680 '350 miles off the African mainland.' 42 00:02:51,200 --> 00:02:53,080 Whoo! 43 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:58,160 This has got to be one of the best ways to see Cape Verde. 44 00:03:00,760 --> 00:03:03,200 Oh, my! Oh! 45 00:03:03,200 --> 00:03:05,160 HE LAUGHS 46 00:03:05,160 --> 00:03:08,920 Oh! That's too much, that's crazy! 47 00:03:08,920 --> 00:03:11,680 Oh, oh, oh... 48 00:03:11,680 --> 00:03:13,760 My stomach felt it. 49 00:03:13,760 --> 00:03:16,600 MUSIC: Yaay by Pape & Cheikh 50 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:20,200 Oh, wow, look at this beach. 51 00:03:23,240 --> 00:03:25,120 And we've landed. 52 00:03:26,800 --> 00:03:29,640 That was just incredible! 53 00:03:29,640 --> 00:03:33,240 To be at the same height as the birds 54 00:03:33,240 --> 00:03:38,120 and to see the landscape, the beach, the sea... 55 00:03:38,120 --> 00:03:42,840 It is absolutely breathtaking when you're up there. 56 00:03:48,360 --> 00:03:52,800 When the Portuguese got here in the 1400s, this place was uninhabited. 57 00:03:52,800 --> 00:03:56,400 There's a real European feel to this place, 58 00:03:56,400 --> 00:04:00,120 with the coloured houses, the cobblestone, 59 00:04:00,120 --> 00:04:04,600 the olive tree and that central plaza over there. 60 00:04:04,600 --> 00:04:06,800 And when you throw in the palm trees, 61 00:04:06,800 --> 00:04:10,640 it's like a meeting of two worlds, Africa and Europe. 62 00:04:12,920 --> 00:04:16,520 But the Portuguese didn't come here for the lovely climate. 63 00:04:16,520 --> 00:04:20,280 Cape Verde was a perfect stopping-off point for slave ships, 64 00:04:20,280 --> 00:04:24,080 trafficking people from Africa to the Americas. 65 00:04:26,040 --> 00:04:29,560 Today, almost everyone here is descended from slaves 66 00:04:29,560 --> 00:04:31,560 and their European masters. 67 00:04:34,720 --> 00:04:37,480 I'd come to a volcanic island called Fogo 68 00:04:37,480 --> 00:04:39,400 to meet some of the locals. 69 00:04:42,360 --> 00:04:46,040 This place is unlike anywhere that I've been to before. 70 00:04:46,040 --> 00:04:48,840 It feels like you're on the surface of the moon. 71 00:04:50,680 --> 00:04:53,920 I was heading to a village in the shadow of Pico do Fogo, 72 00:04:53,920 --> 00:04:55,760 Fire Mountain. 73 00:04:57,960 --> 00:05:00,240 It's an active volcano. 74 00:05:02,640 --> 00:05:04,440 Hello! 75 00:05:04,440 --> 00:05:06,760 'Romero runs a taverna in the village.' 76 00:05:06,760 --> 00:05:10,440 How are you? Tudo bem? Tudo bem, tudo bem. Good, good. 77 00:05:10,440 --> 00:05:12,840 I'm trying to think of the right way of putting this, 78 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:15,560 but most people would think that you're a little crazy 79 00:05:15,560 --> 00:05:17,520 to live in a place like this. 80 00:05:17,520 --> 00:05:21,160 I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't want to offend you. 81 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:24,200 I don't want to offend you, but, I mean, look at that, 82 00:05:24,200 --> 00:05:27,240 and look at that big volcano over there, and you're living here. 83 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:44,720 Romero seemed pretty relaxed, 84 00:05:44,720 --> 00:05:47,560 considering half the village was buried in red-hot lava 85 00:05:47,560 --> 00:05:49,560 only a few years ago. 86 00:05:52,000 --> 00:05:54,120 So, this is your son's house? 87 00:05:58,720 --> 00:06:00,800 Oh! 88 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:02,840 Oh, man! 89 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:05,920 Look at this! 90 00:06:07,640 --> 00:06:09,680 This is incredible! 91 00:06:11,440 --> 00:06:13,520 Look at the crack, as well, in the wall. 92 00:06:25,560 --> 00:06:27,960 That is volcanic rock. 93 00:06:27,960 --> 00:06:31,240 Can you imagine, right? You're sitting in your living room, 94 00:06:31,240 --> 00:06:33,480 watching EastEnders, chilling out, 95 00:06:33,480 --> 00:06:36,680 and then tonnes and tonnes of hot volcanic rock 96 00:06:36,680 --> 00:06:38,920 just burst through your window. 97 00:06:38,920 --> 00:06:41,000 I mean, I'm in total shock. 98 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,000 I'm in shock. I can't believe this. 99 00:06:48,320 --> 00:06:52,960 Life here and across Africa can be pretty extreme. 100 00:06:52,960 --> 00:06:56,040 When the Portuguese left in the 1970s, 101 00:06:56,040 --> 00:06:59,040 it was a completely underdeveloped country. 102 00:07:00,400 --> 00:07:05,360 I was heading to one of Cape Verde's unbelievably remote villages. 103 00:07:05,360 --> 00:07:08,800 If you're trying to get here by any other way than boat, 104 00:07:08,800 --> 00:07:13,560 this is the rough and rugged terrain that you'd have to negotiate. 105 00:07:13,560 --> 00:07:16,080 We've been travelling on this boat for about an hour, 106 00:07:16,080 --> 00:07:18,560 and now I can see the village, 107 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:21,520 those white buildings over there in the distance. 108 00:07:23,640 --> 00:07:26,680 Monte Trigo is the most westerly settlement 109 00:07:26,680 --> 00:07:29,280 in the whole African continent. 110 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:33,720 It's remote, isolated and poor. 111 00:07:33,720 --> 00:07:37,080 'But I'd come here to see a vision of the future.' 112 00:07:38,640 --> 00:07:41,880 I tell you what, sandy beaches are a bit of a nightmare for me, 113 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:45,080 but a stony beach, this is impossible. Look at it. 114 00:07:45,080 --> 00:07:48,000 If you want to stop me from coming round your house, 115 00:07:48,000 --> 00:07:50,000 just pebbledash your driveway. 116 00:07:50,000 --> 00:07:53,160 This looks like our man. Judmilson. 117 00:07:53,160 --> 00:07:56,000 Ola. Bom dia. Bom dia. 118 00:07:56,000 --> 00:07:58,760 Tudo bem? Tranquilo. 119 00:07:58,760 --> 00:08:00,600 Let me come over here. 120 00:08:00,600 --> 00:08:03,720 Can you hold these for me? Yeah. Thank you, dude. 121 00:08:04,840 --> 00:08:06,760 Come up, let's have a chat. 122 00:08:08,600 --> 00:08:13,480 This, Judmilson, has got to be one of the most remote places 123 00:08:13,480 --> 00:08:16,680 that I've ever been to. What is it like to live here? 124 00:08:26,840 --> 00:08:30,080 This is the opposite, complete opposite, to where I come from. 125 00:08:30,080 --> 00:08:34,720 I live in London, full of millions of people, lots of car noise, 126 00:08:34,720 --> 00:08:37,120 just crazy madness. 127 00:08:37,120 --> 00:08:40,000 So, for me, this is really peaceful. 128 00:09:09,400 --> 00:09:12,800 'The main road in the village was pretty old-school.' 129 00:09:12,800 --> 00:09:15,240 This is like being in training again. 130 00:09:16,600 --> 00:09:20,480 'But recently, Monte Trigo had a bit of a makeover.' 131 00:09:20,480 --> 00:09:23,280 Yes! Come on! 132 00:09:23,280 --> 00:09:24,880 Where we going? 133 00:09:24,880 --> 00:09:27,320 THEY LAUGH 134 00:09:27,320 --> 00:09:29,560 So, this is the solar panels? 135 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:38,520 So, the building of these panels, or the installation of them, 136 00:09:38,520 --> 00:09:41,400 must have changed everything for you guys in this village. 137 00:09:48,680 --> 00:09:51,120 It might not seem like such a big deal, 138 00:09:51,120 --> 00:09:54,560 but 24-hour electricity is a total game-changer. 139 00:09:54,560 --> 00:09:58,040 It means fridges to keep food fresh, it means mobile phone masts, 140 00:09:58,040 --> 00:10:00,640 'computers and Wi-Fi.' 141 00:10:00,640 --> 00:10:03,280 Beautiful. 142 00:10:03,280 --> 00:10:06,040 PUPILS SPEAK IN PORTUGUESE 143 00:10:07,520 --> 00:10:09,360 Hello, ola. 144 00:10:09,360 --> 00:10:11,000 Ola, ola, ola. 145 00:10:11,000 --> 00:10:15,800 Hey, can you tell me how has it affected you 146 00:10:15,800 --> 00:10:18,920 and how has it changed the way you work in the school? 147 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:46,920 I suppose they also don't have an excuse 148 00:10:46,920 --> 00:10:49,240 for not doing their homework because, in your day, 149 00:10:49,240 --> 00:10:51,680 you could probably say, "The electricity ran out, sir. 150 00:10:51,680 --> 00:10:53,800 "I can't do the homework any more." 151 00:10:59,760 --> 00:11:02,800 Fist power, bro. Yeah! 152 00:11:03,840 --> 00:11:08,400 600 million Africans still live without reliable electricity. 153 00:11:10,800 --> 00:11:13,200 Getting it to them the traditional way, 154 00:11:13,200 --> 00:11:15,920 using power stations and a national grid, 155 00:11:15,920 --> 00:11:19,280 would cost a fortune and be terrible for the environment. 156 00:11:19,280 --> 00:11:24,320 Solar power ends up pretty much free and it's completely clean. 157 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:29,000 In some ways, tiny Monte Trigo has overtaken us 158 00:11:29,000 --> 00:11:31,240 into a sustainable future. 159 00:11:31,240 --> 00:11:34,320 Maybe the whole of Africa could do the same. 160 00:11:34,320 --> 00:11:38,360 It's only when you come to a place as remote as this one 161 00:11:38,360 --> 00:11:41,360 that you realise just how important it is 162 00:11:41,360 --> 00:11:43,520 to have a reliable source of energy. 163 00:11:43,520 --> 00:11:47,680 Unlike fossil fuels, they will always have some power. 164 00:11:47,680 --> 00:11:51,320 Nobody can take that away from them, and because of that, 165 00:11:51,320 --> 00:11:54,800 for the first time, they've got control of their futures. 166 00:12:00,920 --> 00:12:04,400 The next stop on my African adventure was Senegal. 167 00:12:04,400 --> 00:12:09,160 Just off the coast of its capital, Dakar, is an island called Goree. 168 00:12:10,640 --> 00:12:13,320 It's somewhere that I've always wanted to visit. 169 00:12:13,320 --> 00:12:16,200 Here it is. We're pretty close. 170 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:18,920 This is the place that everyone's been talking about. 171 00:12:20,200 --> 00:12:23,360 'This tiny island is a place of pilgrimage. 172 00:12:23,360 --> 00:12:27,480 'Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama have both been here.' 173 00:12:27,480 --> 00:12:30,360 MUSIC: Pelipeng by Pape & Cheikh 174 00:12:30,360 --> 00:12:32,160 There we are. 175 00:12:35,360 --> 00:12:37,720 Sometimes you've just got to improvise, 176 00:12:37,720 --> 00:12:39,680 you can't wait for people to help you. 177 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:42,680 Ah. 178 00:12:44,320 --> 00:12:48,240 Goree was another key stop for thousands and thousands of slaves 179 00:12:48,240 --> 00:12:51,280 on their brutal journey to the Americas. 180 00:12:54,760 --> 00:12:57,160 Colonel, lovely to meet you. Ade. You're welcome, Ade. 181 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:07,520 150 to 200... 182 00:13:09,160 --> 00:13:12,200 ..people would be kept or slaves would be kept? 183 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:37,880 'Most experts say European slave traders sent 184 00:13:37,880 --> 00:13:41,480 'more than ten million Africans across the Atlantic. 185 00:13:41,480 --> 00:13:44,960 'They came from many different ethnic groups across Africa.' 186 00:13:48,160 --> 00:13:49,680 That's my tribe. 187 00:13:54,480 --> 00:13:55,680 Wow. 188 00:14:20,880 --> 00:14:24,520 So anyone who was ill or who was in pain 189 00:14:24,520 --> 00:14:28,360 or anything like that, they just fed them to the sharks? Yeah. 190 00:14:29,600 --> 00:14:32,640 More than a million Africans are believed to have died 191 00:14:32,640 --> 00:14:35,080 before they even reached the Americas. 192 00:14:36,320 --> 00:14:41,160 I can't even put into words or even understand 193 00:14:41,160 --> 00:14:43,600 what it must have been like 194 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:47,280 for those Africans who were kept here 195 00:14:47,280 --> 00:14:52,320 in those horrendous conditions, horrendous conditions, 196 00:14:52,560 --> 00:14:57,320 many of them from the tribe that I'm from. 197 00:14:58,840 --> 00:15:01,920 And what's even worse is to know 198 00:15:01,920 --> 00:15:06,280 that what happened here, for them, was just the beginning. 199 00:15:23,440 --> 00:15:26,840 Senegal was a French colony until 1960. 200 00:15:26,840 --> 00:15:30,000 It's the only country in this region that hasn't had a coup 201 00:15:30,000 --> 00:15:32,600 or a civil war since independence. 202 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:37,680 It's actually one of the most stable countries in West Africa. 203 00:15:37,680 --> 00:15:41,880 The sea and fishing is central to the economy in this country, 204 00:15:41,880 --> 00:15:43,760 so I'm about to take a boat trip. 205 00:15:43,760 --> 00:15:47,000 Wish me luck, cos I haven't got sea wheels. 206 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:50,040 MUSIC: Mandola by Papa Wemba 207 00:15:50,040 --> 00:15:53,680 I'd come to a fishing port a couple of hours south of Dakar. 208 00:16:03,680 --> 00:16:07,760 Karim has spent most of his life fishing here. 209 00:16:07,760 --> 00:16:10,240 So, how far are we going out? 210 00:16:17,720 --> 00:16:20,600 It seems like fishing is so important for the people here. 211 00:16:27,960 --> 00:16:29,400 Fish, fish, fish, fish. 212 00:16:45,240 --> 00:16:47,920 HE SPEAKS IN FRENCH 213 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:52,280 I can see them, I can see them. There, there, there. 214 00:16:54,560 --> 00:16:57,400 So there was I thinking they'd have a few fishing rods, 215 00:16:57,400 --> 00:16:59,520 but, no, they do it differently here. 216 00:16:59,520 --> 00:17:02,920 They've got a big net and when they spot the fish, 217 00:17:02,920 --> 00:17:07,000 they basically encircle the fish with this giant net. 218 00:17:07,000 --> 00:17:09,040 HE SPEAKS IN FRENCH 219 00:17:09,040 --> 00:17:11,680 THEY BANG ON THE BOAT 220 00:17:13,600 --> 00:17:16,400 Karim, what are you doing? Why are you doing this? 221 00:17:26,520 --> 00:17:29,640 THEY SPEAK IN FRENCH 222 00:17:42,640 --> 00:17:46,440 Almost 2,000 fishing boats work out of this port. 223 00:17:52,160 --> 00:17:54,720 I've taken some taxis in my time, 224 00:17:54,720 --> 00:17:59,320 but this is going to be definitely the strangest one. 225 00:17:59,320 --> 00:18:00,840 Yeah. 226 00:18:00,840 --> 00:18:02,680 Back on up. 227 00:18:02,680 --> 00:18:05,480 Voila. Phew, I'm on. 228 00:18:09,840 --> 00:18:13,000 ADE LAUGHS 229 00:18:14,280 --> 00:18:18,680 Fish is big business here. It's Senegal's biggest export. 230 00:18:23,400 --> 00:18:27,840 This is where a lot of the fish is brought after it's been caught. 231 00:18:29,080 --> 00:18:31,720 'Fridges and freezers are a bit of a luxury here, 232 00:18:31,720 --> 00:18:35,760 'so the fish has to be smoked and dried to preserve it.' 233 00:18:39,040 --> 00:18:42,280 Now, if you look down on the ground, it gives you a little idea 234 00:18:42,280 --> 00:18:45,560 of just how much fish comes through this place. 235 00:18:45,560 --> 00:18:47,360 Cos at first, I thought this was sand, 236 00:18:47,360 --> 00:18:50,800 but when you look closely and you pick it up, it's fish scale. 237 00:18:52,440 --> 00:18:54,240 Voila, c'est ca. 238 00:19:03,000 --> 00:19:05,320 Has there been a time where you have filled 239 00:19:05,320 --> 00:19:07,840 the whole of this grill with fish? 240 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:14,640 Wow. 241 00:19:17,000 --> 00:19:20,080 Whoa, the heat is intense. 242 00:19:20,080 --> 00:19:23,760 I mean, it's already hot here, but that is kicking off some heat. 243 00:19:23,760 --> 00:19:25,960 I think my tyres are going to start melting. 244 00:19:28,320 --> 00:19:31,880 Marie and Karim, you've both been working with fish for a long time. 245 00:19:31,880 --> 00:19:34,480 Have you seen things change over the years? 246 00:19:56,040 --> 00:20:00,680 All along the West African coast, locals say that foreign trawlers, 247 00:20:00,680 --> 00:20:03,320 mostly from the Far East, are taking their fish. 248 00:20:18,280 --> 00:20:20,200 In the last few years, 249 00:20:20,200 --> 00:20:24,840 11 fish meal factories have opened up on Senegal's coastline. 250 00:20:26,720 --> 00:20:29,600 They take fish and turn it into a powder. 251 00:20:29,600 --> 00:20:32,560 It's used to feed pigs and cattle 252 00:20:32,560 --> 00:20:35,840 and even the farmed salmon we buy in our supermarkets. 253 00:20:52,280 --> 00:20:54,640 Who do you blame for this problem? 254 00:21:07,840 --> 00:21:09,960 Merci beaucoup. Merci. 255 00:21:09,960 --> 00:21:11,640 Ciao. Ciao. 256 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:16,360 'What I find worrying is the fact that Senegal's main resource, 257 00:21:16,360 --> 00:21:18,320 'its fish stock, is becoming 258 00:21:18,320 --> 00:21:21,680 'more and more under control of foreign business.' 259 00:21:21,680 --> 00:21:25,600 Rather than being used to feed its people, who really need it, 260 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:28,520 it's bizarrely being sent to rich countries 261 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,280 to fatten up their livestock, 262 00:21:30,280 --> 00:21:32,640 just so we can have good meat on our tables. 263 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:37,800 Africa is so rich in natural resources, 264 00:21:37,800 --> 00:21:41,280 but it's still the poorest continent on Earth. 265 00:21:41,280 --> 00:21:43,960 GULLS SQUAWK 266 00:21:55,880 --> 00:22:00,520 In Senegal, the economy is growing fast, but life is still tough. 267 00:22:00,520 --> 00:22:03,640 MUSIC: Kokoliko by Pape & Cheikh 268 00:22:06,720 --> 00:22:09,480 So, this is it. We're just coming up to the lake. 269 00:22:09,480 --> 00:22:11,840 A lot of Africans have to work seriously hard 270 00:22:11,840 --> 00:22:13,960 to feed their families. 271 00:22:13,960 --> 00:22:16,440 I'd come to Lake Retba to put in a shift. 272 00:22:16,440 --> 00:22:18,200 Bonjour, Monsieur Jean. 273 00:22:18,200 --> 00:22:21,000 'Jean is a salt miner.' 274 00:22:21,000 --> 00:22:23,280 I'll be your work buddy. Come on, let's go out there. 275 00:22:26,760 --> 00:22:28,720 This is how we do it. 276 00:22:28,720 --> 00:22:30,760 ADE LAUGHS 277 00:22:34,320 --> 00:22:37,720 I can see why you're the main man. You've got some strength, dude. 278 00:22:37,720 --> 00:22:39,760 Right. 279 00:22:39,760 --> 00:22:42,800 Merci beaucoup. Merci. Oui. 280 00:22:46,080 --> 00:22:49,480 Now, apparently, this lake has got a higher concentration of salt 281 00:22:49,480 --> 00:22:51,360 than the Dead Sea. 282 00:23:05,280 --> 00:23:08,080 GULLS SQUAWK 283 00:23:08,080 --> 00:23:10,160 Wow, look at this. 284 00:23:10,160 --> 00:23:12,440 You can see all the salt 285 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:15,600 that has gathered around the stick at the top. 286 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:18,440 I think we've got... 287 00:23:22,360 --> 00:23:24,000 Oh! Oh! 288 00:23:24,000 --> 00:23:26,240 HE COUGHS 289 00:23:27,760 --> 00:23:29,720 Eurgh! 290 00:23:29,720 --> 00:23:33,880 'Senegal is one of the biggest salt producers in Africa. 291 00:23:33,880 --> 00:23:36,200 'The workers on this lake haul out 292 00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,440 'tens of thousands of tonnes a year.' 293 00:23:38,440 --> 00:23:40,680 Do you have to do any sort of preparation 294 00:23:40,680 --> 00:23:42,560 before you go into the water? 295 00:23:44,120 --> 00:23:46,000 And that protects your skin? 296 00:23:50,040 --> 00:23:52,200 If you're just tuning in, don't switch over. 297 00:23:52,200 --> 00:23:54,080 You are watching the right channel. 298 00:23:56,120 --> 00:23:57,720 More butter, please. 299 00:24:09,720 --> 00:24:12,000 It's not deep at all. 300 00:24:12,000 --> 00:24:16,600 I'm going to get in there and see what it's like for myself. 301 00:24:20,160 --> 00:24:24,520 Ooh, yes, you can feel it all in your toes. 302 00:24:28,000 --> 00:24:31,480 Look at that. It's so thick that you can just scoop it up. 303 00:24:31,480 --> 00:24:34,520 I didn't even have to get to the bottom of the lake to pick that up. 304 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:38,200 As I was going down, it was just gathering in my hand. 305 00:24:38,200 --> 00:24:41,240 The water in the lake comes from the sea. 306 00:24:41,240 --> 00:24:44,080 It doesn't take long to evaporate in this baking sun, 307 00:24:44,080 --> 00:24:46,040 leaving the salt behind. 308 00:24:46,040 --> 00:24:50,160 Jean, these boats here are piled high with salt. 309 00:24:50,160 --> 00:24:53,720 How many hours would they have spent on the lake to collect all of that? 310 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:05,360 So, they'll spend many, many hours on this lake, gathering the salt. 311 00:25:09,280 --> 00:25:12,880 Jean gets about half a penny for every kilo of salt. 312 00:25:14,960 --> 00:25:16,760 It's not much to support a family, 313 00:25:16,760 --> 00:25:20,440 which explains why so many people are desperate to leave. 314 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:33,520 Hundreds of thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa 315 00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:36,040 try to get to Europe every year. 316 00:26:37,200 --> 00:26:40,240 And it's often the brightest, hardest working 317 00:26:40,240 --> 00:26:42,520 and most determined who leave. 318 00:26:42,520 --> 00:26:47,560 So, will you try to leave Senegal again? 319 00:27:04,520 --> 00:27:08,080 Jean isn't running from war or oppression. 320 00:27:08,080 --> 00:27:11,280 He's trying to escape this life of poverty. 321 00:27:11,280 --> 00:27:14,160 He wants more for his family, 322 00:27:14,160 --> 00:27:17,400 the same as my parents wanted for me. 323 00:27:20,040 --> 00:27:23,920 MUSIC: Halanam by JuJu 324 00:27:23,920 --> 00:27:27,800 I was headed to Nigeria, the country where I was born. 325 00:27:27,800 --> 00:27:31,160 But first, I was on my way to the Ivory Coast 326 00:27:31,160 --> 00:27:33,640 and its biggest city, Abidjan. 327 00:27:37,080 --> 00:27:40,160 Oh, my days! Look at the level of rain. 328 00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:43,200 It is absolutely bucketing it down. 329 00:27:43,200 --> 00:27:45,200 We've only just got here, 330 00:27:45,200 --> 00:27:49,440 and this place feels like a completely different part of Africa. 331 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:51,760 I can barely see the car ahead of us. 332 00:27:51,760 --> 00:27:56,840 There's literally rivers of water cascading along the pavements. 333 00:27:58,480 --> 00:28:01,880 'I'd come here to find out about a subject close to my heart, 334 00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:04,520 'African football.' 335 00:28:04,520 --> 00:28:09,600 Just stopped, because I've seen another billboard of Didier Drogba. 336 00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,880 He's absolutely everywhere, all over Abidjan, 337 00:28:12,880 --> 00:28:14,920 and in case you didn't know, 338 00:28:14,920 --> 00:28:17,000 Didier Drogba was a star striker 339 00:28:17,000 --> 00:28:19,400 that played for Chelsea Football Club. 340 00:28:19,400 --> 00:28:22,520 He's everywhere. He's like a god in this town. 341 00:28:23,880 --> 00:28:25,760 'It's not just Drogba 342 00:28:25,760 --> 00:28:28,920 'Ex-Manchester City superstar Yaya Toure and his brother, Kolo, 343 00:28:28,920 --> 00:28:31,360 'used to play football in these streets, 344 00:28:31,360 --> 00:28:35,400 'so did dozens of other players at big European clubs. 345 00:28:35,400 --> 00:28:37,280 'Many of them began their careers 346 00:28:37,280 --> 00:28:39,960 'at Ivory Coast's top club, ASEC Mimosas.' 347 00:28:41,080 --> 00:28:43,320 This rain is next level. 348 00:28:51,920 --> 00:28:54,560 HE SHRIEKS AND LAUGHS 349 00:28:55,920 --> 00:29:00,160 Oh, my days! That was deeper than I thought it would be. Oh! 350 00:29:03,680 --> 00:29:07,360 Oh, you're having a laugh, you're having a laugh. 351 00:29:07,360 --> 00:29:10,480 Oh, my days! My socks! 352 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,760 HE LAUGHS 353 00:29:15,920 --> 00:29:19,000 'I was being shown round by Stephane Yapi.' 354 00:29:26,000 --> 00:29:28,400 CHEERING 355 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,520 ZUMBA MUSIC PLAYS 356 00:29:35,760 --> 00:29:37,760 What are they doing here? 357 00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:48,880 HE SHOUTS INSTRUCTIONS 358 00:29:51,200 --> 00:29:53,440 I love this. What do you do 359 00:29:53,440 --> 00:29:55,400 when you've got a load of bored teenagers 360 00:29:55,400 --> 00:29:57,640 who can't train because it's raining? 361 00:29:57,640 --> 00:29:59,400 You take them for a zumba class. 362 00:29:59,400 --> 00:30:02,040 ZUMBA MUSIC PLAYS 363 00:30:11,720 --> 00:30:14,360 Somehow, I'm not sure if I could see them 364 00:30:14,360 --> 00:30:17,800 doing that at Chelsea or Man United, but maybe they should. 365 00:30:17,800 --> 00:30:20,400 Those guys have got rhythm. It might help on the pitch. 366 00:30:22,080 --> 00:30:24,920 The youth academy's at the heart of this club. 367 00:30:24,920 --> 00:30:28,360 Most of the top players pass through here on their way to stardom. 368 00:30:35,000 --> 00:30:37,080 Vous aidez? Oui, je vous aide. Allez. 369 00:30:37,080 --> 00:30:39,200 Oop-la. 370 00:30:39,200 --> 00:30:41,960 Attention. OK. OK. 371 00:30:41,960 --> 00:30:44,000 So, Kolo Toure, he stayed in this room? 372 00:30:49,680 --> 00:30:51,520 Can we go in? Let's go. 373 00:30:52,960 --> 00:30:55,360 Look at all the trainers at the top, all the boots. 374 00:30:55,360 --> 00:30:59,200 'Young players eat, sleep and grow up on site.' 375 00:31:00,760 --> 00:31:04,920 These players, their whole day is controlled, 376 00:31:04,920 --> 00:31:07,560 and that's what being an elite athlete is about, 377 00:31:07,560 --> 00:31:10,840 and it shows what ASEC Mimosas is trying to do. 378 00:31:10,840 --> 00:31:14,680 They're bringing elite sport to Ivorian football. 379 00:31:17,120 --> 00:31:20,120 MUSIC: Les Temps Ont Change by Amadou & Mariam 380 00:31:24,440 --> 00:31:27,480 Woo! Nice play! 381 00:31:27,480 --> 00:31:29,880 That's good, good movement. 382 00:31:29,880 --> 00:31:31,640 Are there any of these players 383 00:31:31,640 --> 00:31:33,800 that you think could make it on the big stage, 384 00:31:33,800 --> 00:31:35,840 could go to Europe, perhaps? 385 00:31:39,880 --> 00:31:42,080 That's a name to remember. 386 00:31:42,080 --> 00:31:44,680 You look tired. You worked hard. 387 00:31:46,480 --> 00:31:49,440 It's amazing. You're here at a club with so much history. 388 00:32:05,040 --> 00:32:09,720 If these kids make it here, it would transform their lives. 389 00:32:23,000 --> 00:32:26,320 What lesson is this? What are you guys are learning the moment? 390 00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:32,640 So, which do you prefer, to learn French or to play football? 391 00:32:32,640 --> 00:32:34,280 Football. Football. Only football. 392 00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:36,360 Yeah. 393 00:32:36,360 --> 00:32:39,000 Which team in the world would you like to play for? 394 00:32:39,000 --> 00:32:41,400 Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain. 395 00:32:41,400 --> 00:32:43,920 Barcelona. Barcelona. 396 00:32:43,920 --> 00:32:46,720 ASEC Mimosas. ASEC? Yes. 397 00:32:46,720 --> 00:32:49,400 This guy is loyal, that's I'm talking about. 398 00:32:49,400 --> 00:32:50,600 APPLAUSE 399 00:32:50,600 --> 00:32:52,760 Bonne chance, bonne chance. 400 00:32:54,200 --> 00:32:56,000 Initially when I came here, 401 00:32:56,000 --> 00:32:59,120 I was expecting to just see football pitches and kids training. 402 00:32:59,120 --> 00:33:01,960 I'm very surprised that you've got classes here. 403 00:33:19,120 --> 00:33:22,360 Most of the trainees won't make it to the top, 404 00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:27,360 but ASEC are making sure that these kids are prepared, whatever happens. 405 00:33:27,720 --> 00:33:30,560 But not everyone is so honest. 406 00:33:31,800 --> 00:33:34,600 'Adjiman McKenzie is a 20-year-old footballer. 407 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:37,280 'Last year, he thought he'd hit the big time.' 408 00:33:37,280 --> 00:33:40,320 Ah, here you are. Bonjour. How are you? 409 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:44,080 Ca va? Yes, I'm fine, and you? Yes, good. You speak good English. 410 00:33:44,080 --> 00:33:46,000 Can I come in? Yes, come in. 411 00:33:47,400 --> 00:33:49,680 This way? Ici? Yes. 412 00:33:49,680 --> 00:33:52,600 Can you tell me about your experience of playing in Europe? 413 00:34:10,360 --> 00:34:15,040 Have you got any pictures of you when you were in Moscow? Yes. 414 00:34:21,640 --> 00:34:24,800 Yes, I'm sorry if this brings back bad memories for you. 415 00:34:55,920 --> 00:34:59,760 'Adjiman had no trial, no club and no job, 416 00:34:59,760 --> 00:35:03,400 'and he had to support himself in an expensive city, 417 00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:05,400 'where he didn't speak the language.' 418 00:35:05,400 --> 00:35:07,480 Did you pay the agent any money? 419 00:35:14,320 --> 00:35:19,200 That's about $6,000. How were you able to get that money? 420 00:35:24,000 --> 00:35:25,680 Wow! 421 00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:49,040 West Africa is full of dodgy football agents 422 00:35:49,040 --> 00:35:50,880 out for a quick buck. 423 00:35:51,920 --> 00:35:54,360 Thousands of young players are trafficked abroad 424 00:35:54,360 --> 00:35:56,240 every year on a lie. 425 00:35:56,240 --> 00:36:00,880 Many end up homeless, unable to afford a flight home. 426 00:36:00,880 --> 00:36:04,720 Africa's footballers seem to be yet another resource 427 00:36:04,720 --> 00:36:07,520 that's getting exploited. 428 00:36:11,920 --> 00:36:14,520 MUSIC: No Agreement by Fela Kuti 429 00:36:16,160 --> 00:36:19,440 The last stop on this leg of my journey was Nigeria. 430 00:36:23,440 --> 00:36:28,120 It's home to 200 million people, more than anywhere else in Africa. 431 00:36:29,280 --> 00:36:32,160 Its biggest city, Lagos, is where I was born. 432 00:36:33,280 --> 00:36:37,880 I got polio when I was 15 months old and my parents moved me to London. 433 00:36:37,880 --> 00:36:41,520 I've only been back here a couple of times since. 434 00:36:41,520 --> 00:36:44,160 If my parents hadn't taken me to the UK, 435 00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,840 these are the streets and this is the place that I would have come to. 436 00:36:47,840 --> 00:36:50,640 It's a bit different from Newham in East London. 437 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:54,280 MUSIC: Night Walk by JuJu 438 00:36:55,720 --> 00:37:00,400 'I'd come to catch up with some guys that I'd met last time I was here. 439 00:37:00,400 --> 00:37:04,280 'Like me, they're polio survivors who love sport.' 440 00:37:04,280 --> 00:37:07,720 Look at them playing para-soccer. I love this sport, man. 441 00:37:07,720 --> 00:37:11,160 Ortega is the man, the one with the yellow top. 442 00:37:11,160 --> 00:37:12,800 He's awesome. 443 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,400 Look how well they move on those skateboards... 444 00:37:16,680 --> 00:37:19,240 ..just little planks of wood with wheels underneath. 445 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:22,760 Whoa! 446 00:37:22,760 --> 00:37:24,320 Behind the back. 447 00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:32,280 Hey, my friend! Wassup? Wassup? 448 00:37:32,280 --> 00:37:34,920 Long time, man, long time no see. 449 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:38,600 You good? Yeah. Good, man. Wow! 450 00:37:38,600 --> 00:37:41,200 You've still got it, man, you've still got the skills. 451 00:37:44,120 --> 00:37:47,440 You add more. Yes, I can see you're better now. All right. 452 00:37:47,440 --> 00:37:50,600 Do you guys, with your disability and with polio, 453 00:37:50,600 --> 00:37:53,280 do you get any help from the government? 454 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:07,120 you told me you were going to set up a business, 455 00:38:07,120 --> 00:38:09,480 all of you guys were going to set up a business. Yes. 456 00:38:09,480 --> 00:38:11,160 How has that gone? Have you done it? 457 00:38:13,800 --> 00:38:16,760 I've only just got back to Lagos. I haven't seen it for a long time. 458 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:18,760 Would I be able to go in your tuk-tuk with you 459 00:38:18,760 --> 00:38:21,200 and you can show me the scenes and the sites? 460 00:38:21,200 --> 00:38:23,040 Yes, I can. 461 00:38:23,040 --> 00:38:25,320 I'll jump in the back, shall I? Yeah. 462 00:38:28,120 --> 00:38:31,200 Surulere, please, driver. OK. Yeah! 463 00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:32,840 Whoa! 464 00:38:32,840 --> 00:38:35,040 ADE LAUGHS 465 00:38:36,160 --> 00:38:38,760 'Ortega and his friends have adapted their tuk-tuks 466 00:38:38,760 --> 00:38:40,640 'to work with just hand controls.' 467 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,600 MUSIC: Nangaraba by Amadou & Mariam 468 00:38:47,960 --> 00:38:51,920 Wow, that was close. 469 00:38:51,920 --> 00:38:54,920 CAR HORN BEEPS 470 00:38:56,400 --> 00:38:58,280 Everybody here's crazy. 471 00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,440 MUSIC: Nangaraba by Amadou & Mariam 472 00:39:02,440 --> 00:39:04,280 Wow! 473 00:39:06,560 --> 00:39:10,240 'Lagos is one of the world's biggest and maddest cities. 474 00:39:10,240 --> 00:39:14,640 '14 million people live, work and hustle here.' 475 00:39:17,280 --> 00:39:20,320 This is the very centre of Lagos. The centre, the centre. 476 00:39:20,320 --> 00:39:23,360 'This city is Nigeria's powerhouse.' 477 00:39:23,360 --> 00:39:25,120 Wow, it's so tight. 478 00:39:25,120 --> 00:39:27,960 Look how close this guy is to us. Oh! 479 00:39:31,720 --> 00:39:33,960 Everything is by millimetres. 480 00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:36,360 Not even centimetres, millimetres. 481 00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,040 'Ortega's tuk-tuk business is doing well, 482 00:39:41,040 --> 00:39:43,520 'but even with the money they're earning, 483 00:39:43,520 --> 00:39:47,160 'he and his mates still can't afford a proper home.' 484 00:39:47,160 --> 00:39:49,280 Is this near the bridge where you guys stay? 485 00:39:52,040 --> 00:39:55,760 I recognise it. So, you still live underneath the bridge? 486 00:39:58,320 --> 00:39:59,600 No money. 487 00:40:07,160 --> 00:40:10,440 Thank you, Ortega. Thank you very much. All right. 488 00:40:11,880 --> 00:40:13,840 That's one way to stop! 489 00:40:13,840 --> 00:40:16,000 THEY LAUGH 490 00:40:17,040 --> 00:40:19,320 I'm in total awe of these guys 491 00:40:19,320 --> 00:40:22,920 because living in Lagos for anybody is difficult, 492 00:40:22,920 --> 00:40:25,160 but living in Lagos when you're disabled, 493 00:40:25,160 --> 00:40:28,440 with minimal help from the government, it's so tough. 494 00:40:28,440 --> 00:40:30,840 I will never complain about living in the UK. 495 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,120 I think these guys epitomise the Lagosian spirit, man. 496 00:40:35,120 --> 00:40:37,720 They just don't give up. They're my heroes. 497 00:40:41,080 --> 00:40:45,880 Nigeria has the biggest economy in Africa and massive oil reserves. 498 00:40:45,880 --> 00:40:49,360 People here should be rich, but they're not, 499 00:40:49,360 --> 00:40:52,960 and it's hard to blame outsiders or foreign powers. 500 00:40:52,960 --> 00:40:57,200 There's terrible corruption, bad management and widespread crime. 501 00:40:59,200 --> 00:41:02,480 The state provides hardly anything for its citizens, 502 00:41:02,480 --> 00:41:05,760 so many people look elsewhere for support. 503 00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:10,040 My mum and my dad, if he was alive, would be very proud of me, 504 00:41:10,040 --> 00:41:12,280 because I'm on my way to church. 505 00:41:12,280 --> 00:41:16,320 Now, joking aside, church is a big deal here in Nigeria, 506 00:41:16,320 --> 00:41:19,480 and for many people, religion is serious business. 507 00:41:21,760 --> 00:41:25,480 The Redeemed Christian Church of God is a Nigerian megachurch. 508 00:41:25,480 --> 00:41:28,120 I was being shown around by a pastor. 509 00:41:28,120 --> 00:41:32,200 So, right over here on the left is the auditorium. 510 00:41:32,200 --> 00:41:36,400 This big structure in front of me? Yes, you're right. 511 00:41:37,880 --> 00:41:41,240 That is gigantic. Look at the size of this place. 512 00:41:41,240 --> 00:41:44,440 We could drive for quite a while and still not get to the other end. 513 00:41:45,560 --> 00:41:47,360 It's enormous! 514 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:52,920 This church is used for monthly services. 515 00:41:52,920 --> 00:41:57,960 It's 500 metres wide and more than 1,000 metres long. 516 00:42:03,480 --> 00:42:07,680 We're close to about the midway point in the auditorium now. 517 00:42:07,680 --> 00:42:11,200 How many people would you be able to fit in this place? 518 00:42:11,200 --> 00:42:14,480 On Holy Ghost nights, when everywhere is full, 519 00:42:14,480 --> 00:42:17,240 about a million people can fit under here. 520 00:42:17,240 --> 00:42:19,120 A million people? Yes. 521 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,560 That's incredible! 522 00:42:24,200 --> 00:42:27,240 There are more than 80 million Christians in Nigeria, 523 00:42:27,240 --> 00:42:30,280 and it felt like you could get most of them in here. 524 00:42:30,280 --> 00:42:33,120 But apparently, it's not big enough. 525 00:42:33,120 --> 00:42:36,160 I am truly astounded by this. 526 00:42:36,160 --> 00:42:38,200 They're building a new one, 527 00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:42,040 which they say will be three times the size. 528 00:42:42,040 --> 00:42:45,320 About three million people are meant to fit under that roof. 529 00:42:45,320 --> 00:42:48,720 Is this the biggest church structure in the world? 530 00:42:48,720 --> 00:42:53,040 To the best of my knowledge, I think it is. Words escape me. 531 00:42:53,040 --> 00:42:56,680 And there's more, much more. 532 00:42:58,920 --> 00:43:02,160 The church's HQ here covers 2,000 acres, 533 00:43:02,160 --> 00:43:04,960 the size of a small town. 534 00:43:04,960 --> 00:43:08,880 We're on the ring road. How many churches have their own ring road? 535 00:43:10,600 --> 00:43:12,720 Is that a bank? You have a bank here as well? 536 00:43:12,720 --> 00:43:14,480 Oh, yes, we have all the banks here. 537 00:43:14,480 --> 00:43:18,600 'There's also a maternity hospital, TV station and power plant. 538 00:43:18,600 --> 00:43:20,840 'It even has a funfair.' 539 00:43:20,840 --> 00:43:22,680 I've not seen a church like this. 540 00:43:22,680 --> 00:43:26,800 There's no church that I know that has a fairground. 541 00:43:26,800 --> 00:43:29,240 The church funds hundreds of charitable projects 542 00:43:29,240 --> 00:43:33,240 across Nigeria, from schools to drug rehab centres, 543 00:43:33,240 --> 00:43:35,640 and it all costs money. 544 00:43:35,640 --> 00:43:37,720 That's a nice ramp. 545 00:43:37,720 --> 00:43:39,760 Red carpeted ramp. 546 00:43:39,760 --> 00:43:44,480 'The church says it has 40,000 branches across Nigeria 547 00:43:44,480 --> 00:43:47,840 'and a lot of its money comes from its congregation.' 548 00:43:57,640 --> 00:44:00,240 The church's millions of worshippers are encouraged 549 00:44:00,240 --> 00:44:03,320 to donate 10% of their wages. 550 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:07,360 It's the second round of offerings. Round two. 551 00:44:07,360 --> 00:44:09,320 Amen. 552 00:44:12,440 --> 00:44:15,360 # Praise to the Lord... # 553 00:44:15,360 --> 00:44:17,960 The Redeemed Christian Church of God has branches 554 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,160 all over the world. 555 00:44:21,600 --> 00:44:26,000 It's become a multimillion-dollar business empire. 556 00:44:27,960 --> 00:44:32,920 I met up with the head of the church in Nigeria, Pastor Joseph Obayemi. 557 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:37,640 I've never seen anything like this before in my life, 558 00:44:37,640 --> 00:44:40,440 you know, a church on this scale. 559 00:44:40,440 --> 00:44:43,560 What is your vision, then, for the future? 560 00:44:43,560 --> 00:44:45,760 What is the ultimate goal for you guys? 561 00:44:45,760 --> 00:44:48,840 We have decided, through our Father and the Lord, 562 00:44:48,840 --> 00:44:52,720 that by the grace of God, in every developing countries, 563 00:44:52,720 --> 00:44:57,720 we will plant churches within five minutes' walking distance. 564 00:44:58,520 --> 00:45:01,560 In developed countries, like yours, 565 00:45:01,560 --> 00:45:05,280 we pray that we will be able to plant churches, 566 00:45:05,280 --> 00:45:07,840 that is, a branch of our churches, 567 00:45:07,840 --> 00:45:12,360 within five minutes of driving distance. 568 00:45:12,360 --> 00:45:16,240 Why does it need to be your church that does the whole world? 569 00:45:16,240 --> 00:45:20,080 We want to fulfil everything that the Lord Jesus Christ has said, 570 00:45:20,080 --> 00:45:22,400 not minding what it's costing us. 571 00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,960 If others are not doing it, we fear less. 572 00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:28,840 But the fee is free to everybody. 573 00:45:28,840 --> 00:45:32,120 As the church has grown, it's got richer, 574 00:45:32,120 --> 00:45:36,280 and so has its global head, Pastor Joseph's boss. 575 00:45:36,280 --> 00:45:40,480 Some people claim he's now worth over $100 million. 576 00:45:40,480 --> 00:45:44,160 I think there'll be some people who may be uncomfortable 577 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:49,200 when they watch this and they see the amount of wealth that you have. 578 00:45:53,040 --> 00:45:55,400 you know, the head of your church. 579 00:45:55,400 --> 00:45:57,680 I mean, how do you marry those two, 580 00:45:57,680 --> 00:46:00,680 because there are millions of poor people in this country? 581 00:46:30,840 --> 00:46:33,160 Thank you very much. You're welcome. 582 00:46:33,160 --> 00:46:35,000 I hope one day you'll become a member 583 00:46:35,000 --> 00:46:37,120 of the Redeemed Christian Church of God 584 00:46:37,120 --> 00:46:39,200 because Jesus always thought you have, 585 00:46:39,200 --> 00:46:42,760 and you'll become genuinely born-again child of God. 586 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,200 God bless you. 587 00:46:44,200 --> 00:46:47,840 If you get a roller-coaster, maybe I'll think about it. Oh... 588 00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,480 'Whatever you think of them,' 589 00:46:50,480 --> 00:46:54,040 Nigeria's massive Christian churches have stepped in 590 00:46:54,040 --> 00:46:56,640 to provide order and safety in people's lives 591 00:46:56,640 --> 00:46:59,640 where the government has failed. 592 00:46:59,640 --> 00:47:02,480 MUSIC: Zombie by Fela Kuti 593 00:47:05,440 --> 00:47:08,360 I wanted to explore some of the rest of the country. 594 00:47:10,400 --> 00:47:12,240 Every time I come to Nigeria, 595 00:47:12,240 --> 00:47:15,080 I've always been so focused on getting to Lagos 596 00:47:15,080 --> 00:47:17,120 and seeing what's happening out there, 597 00:47:17,120 --> 00:47:21,960 and it's really easy to forget how big this country is. 598 00:47:21,960 --> 00:47:26,240 This is the first time I'm getting to see the rural parts of Nigeria. 599 00:47:26,240 --> 00:47:29,280 There's so much open space, look at it. 600 00:47:31,360 --> 00:47:34,560 I was in proper farming country, Benue State, 601 00:47:34,560 --> 00:47:37,000 known as the breadbasket of Nigeria. 602 00:47:41,440 --> 00:47:44,000 70% of people here are farmers. 603 00:47:51,120 --> 00:47:55,280 It looks like another checkpoint here we're coming up to. 604 00:47:55,280 --> 00:47:57,440 This guy looks really serious. 605 00:47:57,440 --> 00:47:59,920 All of them are heavily armed as well. 606 00:48:03,600 --> 00:48:05,600 Good morning. Good morning. 607 00:48:06,880 --> 00:48:08,680 Thank you. Thank you. 608 00:48:08,680 --> 00:48:12,760 'Recently, this part of the country has been scarred by violence.' 609 00:48:14,360 --> 00:48:15,840 We are together. 610 00:48:19,160 --> 00:48:23,640 The far north of Nigeria has been hit by an Islamist insurgency, 611 00:48:23,640 --> 00:48:25,720 lead by a group called Boko Haram, 612 00:48:25,720 --> 00:48:27,560 that's caused a lot of trouble 613 00:48:27,560 --> 00:48:30,600 and killed a lot of people in the last few years. 614 00:48:30,600 --> 00:48:33,280 But actually, there's another conflict 615 00:48:33,280 --> 00:48:37,000 that's killed even more people in the last year, 616 00:48:37,000 --> 00:48:40,080 and that's what I'm on my way to find out about now. 617 00:48:41,160 --> 00:48:44,440 'We were told we needed an armed escort to travel any further.' 618 00:48:44,440 --> 00:48:46,840 Burnt-out vehicle here. 619 00:48:48,320 --> 00:48:51,360 'Villagers across this area have been attacked, 620 00:48:51,360 --> 00:48:55,040 'houses torched and families massacred. 621 00:48:55,040 --> 00:48:58,440 'The government has been powerless to protect people.' 622 00:48:58,440 --> 00:49:00,240 So, we've stopped. 623 00:49:01,280 --> 00:49:03,400 Our guys have got out. 624 00:49:06,880 --> 00:49:08,840 I'm not sure what to expect here. 625 00:49:08,840 --> 00:49:13,680 'This village used to be home to farmers from the Tiv ethnic group.' 626 00:49:13,680 --> 00:49:16,280 This place has just been devastated. 627 00:49:21,000 --> 00:49:23,080 Got more burnt-out huts. 628 00:49:25,520 --> 00:49:27,920 Pretty much all the huts have been burnt, 629 00:49:27,920 --> 00:49:29,760 they've been torched, 630 00:49:29,760 --> 00:49:32,400 and on the floor here, 631 00:49:32,400 --> 00:49:36,560 you can see where the roofs have been burnt and caved in. 632 00:49:38,160 --> 00:49:40,120 Look at this glass. 633 00:49:41,960 --> 00:49:44,120 It's been melted. 634 00:49:47,000 --> 00:49:50,440 'No-one knows exactly how many people have died, 635 00:49:50,440 --> 00:49:52,480 'but it's in the thousands.' 636 00:49:54,080 --> 00:49:55,920 The silence is eerie. 637 00:49:55,920 --> 00:49:58,800 I mean, this place should have loads of people in it, but... 638 00:50:00,480 --> 00:50:05,480 I've seen a lot of houses and huts but not much life. 639 00:50:05,880 --> 00:50:10,960 No smoke, no sign of life, no clothes hanging up or anything. 640 00:50:11,520 --> 00:50:13,640 'On the outskirts of a nearby town, 641 00:50:13,640 --> 00:50:16,480 'I found out where everyone had gone.' 642 00:50:16,480 --> 00:50:20,320 Look at all these people, so many people. 643 00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:23,760 Women, children, babies... 644 00:50:24,960 --> 00:50:27,040 There's just loads of them. 645 00:50:29,680 --> 00:50:32,520 The villagers had fled to a makeshift government camp. 646 00:50:35,600 --> 00:50:37,720 So, how many people are here? 647 00:50:37,720 --> 00:50:42,640 We have a total number of 34,986. 648 00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:44,600 Here? In here. 649 00:50:44,600 --> 00:50:48,120 34,000... 34,986. 650 00:50:49,760 --> 00:50:54,120 They have been here for the past four months, in this camp. 651 00:50:54,120 --> 00:50:58,920 So, within four months, you've got 35,000 people. Yes, sir. 652 00:50:58,920 --> 00:51:02,640 This is one out of the eight camps in Benue State. 653 00:51:02,640 --> 00:51:07,200 We have a total number of 175,070. 654 00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:11,280 So, is this where the people sleep? Yes. 655 00:51:13,120 --> 00:51:15,800 How many people will sleep in this space? 656 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:19,600 More than 100 families in one room. More than 100 families? 657 00:51:19,600 --> 00:51:21,280 100 families. Just in this room? 658 00:51:21,280 --> 00:51:23,680 Managing themselves, yeah, these families. 659 00:51:23,680 --> 00:51:27,120 They have run for their lives. 660 00:51:27,120 --> 00:51:30,520 Some of them witnessed how they killed their relations. 661 00:51:30,520 --> 00:51:35,480 Some of them escaped narrowly from the Fulani herdsmen attack. 662 00:51:38,520 --> 00:51:41,560 The Fulani are a different ethnic group. 663 00:51:41,560 --> 00:51:43,520 A lot of them are cattle herders 664 00:51:43,520 --> 00:51:46,800 who move from place to place across West Africa. 665 00:51:54,560 --> 00:51:55,960 Who killed them? 666 00:52:10,640 --> 00:52:13,640 This conflict has hardly been reported in the West, 667 00:52:13,640 --> 00:52:16,680 but it's threatening to spiral out of control. 668 00:52:21,000 --> 00:52:24,440 I wanted to meet the Fulani to hear their side of the story. 669 00:52:26,280 --> 00:52:28,920 I think you've got to be pretty tough to live out here. 670 00:52:28,920 --> 00:52:32,360 There doesn't seem to be any decent roads 671 00:52:32,360 --> 00:52:36,400 and it's in the wilderness, look at it. 672 00:52:37,960 --> 00:52:41,680 The Fulani are one of West Africa's largest ethnic groups. 673 00:52:41,680 --> 00:52:44,320 There are around 25 million of them. 674 00:52:44,320 --> 00:52:46,720 'I'd come to meet Salle.' 675 00:52:50,840 --> 00:52:53,880 The Fulani have always been known as peaceful people, 676 00:52:53,880 --> 00:52:55,920 but the war in the north 677 00:52:55,920 --> 00:52:58,960 and climate change have pushed them into new lands. 678 00:52:58,960 --> 00:53:02,360 They're now competing for the same land as farmers. 679 00:53:03,440 --> 00:53:05,360 To keep them off farmland, 680 00:53:05,360 --> 00:53:09,280 some local governments have banned cattle from grazing, 681 00:53:09,280 --> 00:53:11,520 which isn't great if you're a cattle herder. 682 00:53:12,960 --> 00:53:15,040 These your cows? Yeah. 683 00:53:26,720 --> 00:53:29,200 Wow, so this is all the milk? 684 00:53:36,160 --> 00:53:38,560 Is this land not good for grazing? 685 00:53:57,040 --> 00:53:59,480 Have you lost any cattle so far? 686 00:54:03,920 --> 00:54:06,840 Earlier, I met some Tiv villagers 687 00:54:06,840 --> 00:54:11,360 who seem extremely frightened of Fulani herdsman. 688 00:54:11,360 --> 00:54:16,400 Erm, you know, they say they've been terrorised by you guys 689 00:54:16,760 --> 00:54:20,360 and I'm struggling to work out how that has happened. 690 00:54:49,520 --> 00:54:52,920 It isn't impossible to verify Salle's story, 691 00:54:52,920 --> 00:54:56,600 but there have been reports of farmers, militia, 692 00:54:56,600 --> 00:55:00,840 and even policeman carrying out revenge attacks against the Fulani. 693 00:55:02,680 --> 00:55:06,240 So, do you think these new laws are destroying 694 00:55:06,240 --> 00:55:08,760 the way of life of Fulani? 695 00:55:19,960 --> 00:55:22,360 This conflict feels like the sort of thing 696 00:55:22,360 --> 00:55:25,400 that could have happened 2,000 years ago. 697 00:55:28,600 --> 00:55:32,280 It shows how far Nigeria still has to go. 698 00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:34,520 Despite vast resources, 699 00:55:34,520 --> 00:55:37,960 the government can't keep its people safe and fed. 700 00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:41,080 For this country to develop, 701 00:55:41,080 --> 00:55:44,320 it looks like Nigerians will have to rely on themselves. 702 00:55:57,280 --> 00:55:59,160 Luckily, as I'd already seen, 703 00:55:59,160 --> 00:56:02,560 there's an entrepreneurial spirit here that's second to none. 704 00:56:04,840 --> 00:56:08,680 Ah, Mohini! Hey, how are you? 705 00:56:08,680 --> 00:56:10,520 'Before the end of my journey, 706 00:56:10,520 --> 00:56:13,160 'I'd come to meet Mohini Ufeli at Andela. 707 00:56:13,160 --> 00:56:17,200 'It's a tech company hoping the internet can transform Africa.' 708 00:56:17,200 --> 00:56:19,480 First of all, the graff. Yes. 709 00:56:19,480 --> 00:56:21,880 I wouldn't expect anything less from a tech company, 710 00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,680 even if you're in Lagos. Yeah, we're all about the graffiti. 711 00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:28,000 That's cool. You did that yourself, yeah? I wish! 712 00:56:30,560 --> 00:56:33,040 Andela takes bright young Africans 713 00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:35,640 and teaches them how to write computer code. 714 00:56:35,640 --> 00:56:39,160 Then, they're outsourced to major companies around the world, 715 00:56:39,160 --> 00:56:41,400 without ever having to leave Lagos. 716 00:56:43,240 --> 00:56:46,480 So that's the code that's created that. 717 00:56:46,480 --> 00:56:49,920 'Getting on the training programme is a big deal.' 718 00:56:49,920 --> 00:56:54,600 These people you see right here are in their second week of boot camp. 719 00:56:54,600 --> 00:56:58,080 So, this is a really important moment in these guys' lives. 720 00:56:58,080 --> 00:57:01,480 It really is. They're the individuals that we have identified 721 00:57:01,480 --> 00:57:04,560 as having the potential to become world-class software developers 722 00:57:04,560 --> 00:57:06,800 and be able to work with teams around the world. 723 00:57:06,800 --> 00:57:09,040 So, basically, the people who make it here, 724 00:57:09,040 --> 00:57:12,960 are the very, very best, the cream of the crop. They are. 725 00:57:14,920 --> 00:57:16,880 Once they've made it, they get to code 726 00:57:16,880 --> 00:57:18,440 and do all the other things 727 00:57:18,440 --> 00:57:21,000 that true Silicon Valley tech teams would do. 728 00:57:22,440 --> 00:57:26,000 How can any self-respecting, high-flying tech company 729 00:57:26,000 --> 00:57:29,360 not be worth its salt, without an arts and craft week? Exactly! 730 00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:32,120 You've got to create outlets for people to express themselves. 731 00:57:33,400 --> 00:57:36,560 Is this something that you feel you finally, 732 00:57:36,560 --> 00:57:38,880 or Africa can finally take control of, 733 00:57:38,880 --> 00:57:42,320 you know, their own product that they're giving to the world? 734 00:57:42,320 --> 00:57:44,560 I think we can agree that tech is the future. 735 00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:47,000 And this is only going to grow. 736 00:57:47,000 --> 00:57:49,840 For every software developer that exists, 737 00:57:49,840 --> 00:57:52,440 there are five jobs available for them. 738 00:57:52,440 --> 00:57:54,920 So, if we hop on that train, 739 00:57:54,920 --> 00:57:58,080 and we're able to develop that knowledge for ourselves, 740 00:57:58,080 --> 00:58:00,400 then no-one can take that away from us. 741 00:58:00,400 --> 00:58:03,440 There's an incredible work ethic here 742 00:58:03,440 --> 00:58:06,360 and, frankly, a lot of cheap labour. 743 00:58:06,360 --> 00:58:08,880 Combine that with technology, 744 00:58:08,880 --> 00:58:12,160 and this country and continent could fly. 745 00:58:12,160 --> 00:58:15,800 It happened in Asia and I'm hoping it'll happen here next. 746 00:58:20,080 --> 00:58:21,640 Next time... 747 00:58:24,000 --> 00:58:26,040 ..I'm in central Africa... 748 00:58:26,040 --> 00:58:27,200 Bonjour. 749 00:58:27,200 --> 00:58:30,200 No, no tongues, no tongues! 750 00:58:30,200 --> 00:58:33,800 ..with a new generation fighting to change this continent. 751 00:58:33,800 --> 00:58:36,560 We are turning things around. Peace.