I'm travelling around the most exciting continent
on the planet - Africa.
With more than 50 countries
and hundreds of cultures...
Look at you guys! Yah.
Don't switch over. You are watching the right channel.
..it's the fastest-growing, most dynamic...
Everybody here's crazy.
Oh, my God.
Come on!
..and most epic place on Earth.
Oh, man! I'm going to have to pinch myself in a minute.
On this first leg of my trip around sub-Saharan Africa,
I'll be in West Africa.
I'll be travelling from the islands of Cape Verde
to Senegal and Ivory Coast, before I end up in Nigeria.
Life here can be extreme...
This is how we do it.
..and everyone has their own way of getting by.
Nice play.
Looks like another checkpoint here.
But cultures are beginning to clash.
There's just so much destruction and waste here.
This is a region on the brink of massive change.
This is only going to grow.
They just don't give up. They're my heroes.
I'm going to start off my journey in Cape Verde.
This is the most westerly point in Africa
and if you think this looks great, it's about to get even better,
as I kick this journey off in style.
OK.
Oh!
Oh...
We're up! We're up!
Yes, we're flying!
Whoa!
MUSIC: Yaay by Pape & Cheikh
'Cape Verde is one of the smallest countries in Africa.'
Oh, my! This is amazing, this is so beautiful.
'Ten tiny islands in the Atlantic Ocean,
'350 miles off the African mainland.'
Whoo!
This has got to be one of the best ways to see Cape Verde.
Oh, my! Oh!
HE LAUGHS
Oh! That's too much, that's crazy!
Oh, oh, oh...
My stomach felt it.
MUSIC: Yaay by Pape & Cheikh
Oh, wow, look at this beach.
And we've landed.
That was just incredible!
To be at the same height as the birds
and to see the landscape, the beach, the sea...
It is absolutely breathtaking when you're up there.
When the Portuguese got here in the 1400s, this place was uninhabited.
There's a real European feel to this place,
with the coloured houses, the cobblestone,
the olive tree and that central plaza over there.
And when you throw in the palm trees,
it's like a meeting of two worlds, Africa and Europe.
But the Portuguese didn't come here for the lovely climate.
Cape Verde was a perfect stopping-off point for slave ships,
trafficking people from Africa to the Americas.
Today, almost everyone here is descended from slaves
and their European masters.
I'd come to a volcanic island called Fogo
to meet some of the locals.
This place is unlike anywhere that I've been to before.
It feels like you're on the surface of the moon.
I was heading to a village in the shadow of Pico do Fogo,
Fire Mountain.
It's an active volcano.
Hello!
'Romero runs a taverna in the village.'
How are you? Tudo bem? Tudo bem, tudo bem. Good, good.
I'm trying to think of the right way of putting this,
but most people would think that you're a little crazy
to live in a place like this.
I'm sorry, I'm sorry, I don't want to offend you.
I don't want to offend you, but, I mean, look at that,
and look at that big volcano over there, and you're living here.
Romero seemed pretty relaxed,
considering half the village was buried in red-hot lava
only a few years ago.
So, this is your son's house?
Oh!
Oh, man!
Look at this!
This is incredible!
Look at the crack, as well, in the wall.
That is volcanic rock.
Can you imagine, right? You're sitting in your living room,
watching EastEnders, chilling out,
and then tonnes and tonnes of hot volcanic rock
just burst through your window.
I mean, I'm in total shock.
I'm in shock. I can't believe this.
Life here and across Africa can be pretty extreme.
When the Portuguese left in the 1970s,
it was a completely underdeveloped country.
I was heading to one of Cape Verde's unbelievably remote villages.
If you're trying to get here by any other way than boat,
this is the rough and rugged terrain that you'd have to negotiate.
We've been travelling on this boat for about an hour,
and now I can see the village,
those white buildings over there in the distance.
Monte Trigo is the most westerly settlement
in the whole African continent.
It's remote, isolated and poor.
'But I'd come here to see a vision of the future.'
I tell you what, sandy beaches are a bit of a nightmare for me,
but a stony beach, this is impossible. Look at it.
If you want to stop me from coming round your house,
just pebbledash your driveway.
This looks like our man. Judmilson.
Ola. Bom dia. Bom dia.
Tudo bem? Tranquilo.
Let me come over here.
Can you hold these for me? Yeah. Thank you, dude.
Come up, let's have a chat.
This, Judmilson, has got to be one of the most remote places
that I've ever been to. What is it like to live here?
This is the opposite, complete opposite, to where I come from.
I live in London, full of millions of people, lots of car noise,
just crazy madness.
So, for me, this is really peaceful.
'The main road in the village was pretty old-school.'
This is like being in training again.
'But recently, Monte Trigo had a bit of a makeover.'
Yes! Come on!
Where we going?
THEY LAUGH
So, this is the solar panels?
So, the building of these panels, or the installation of them,
must have changed everything for you guys in this village.
It might not seem like such a big deal,
but 24-hour electricity is a total game-changer.
It means fridges to keep food fresh, it means mobile phone masts,
'computers and Wi-Fi.'
Beautiful.
PUPILS SPEAK IN PORTUGUESE
Hello, ola.
Ola, ola, ola.
Hey, can you tell me how has it affected you
and how has it changed the way you work in the school?
I suppose they also don't have an excuse
for not doing their homework because, in your day,
you could probably say, "The electricity ran out, sir.
"I can't do the homework any more."
Fist power, bro. Yeah!
600 million Africans still live without reliable electricity.
Getting it to them the traditional way,
using power stations and a national grid,
would cost a fortune and be terrible for the environment.
Solar power ends up pretty much free and it's completely clean.
In some ways, tiny Monte Trigo has overtaken us
into a sustainable future.
Maybe the whole of Africa could do the same.
It's only when you come to a place as remote as this one
that you realise just how important it is
to have a reliable source of energy.
Unlike fossil fuels, they will always have some power.
Nobody can take that away from them, and because of that,
for the first time, they've got control of their futures.
The next stop on my African adventure was Senegal.
Just off the coast of its capital, Dakar, is an island called Goree.
It's somewhere that I've always wanted to visit.
Here it is. We're pretty close.
This is the place that everyone's been talking about.
'This tiny island is a place of pilgrimage.
'Nelson Mandela and Barack Obama have both been here.'
MUSIC: Pelipeng by Pape & Cheikh
There we are.
Sometimes you've just got to improvise,
you can't wait for people to help you.
Ah.
Goree was another key stop for thousands and thousands of slaves
on their brutal journey to the Americas.
Colonel, lovely to meet you. Ade. You're welcome, Ade.
150 to 200...
..people would be kept or slaves would be kept?
'Most experts say European slave traders sent
'more than ten million Africans across the Atlantic.
'They came from many different ethnic groups across Africa.'
That's my tribe.
Wow.
So anyone who was ill or who was in pain
or anything like that, they just fed them to the sharks? Yeah.
More than a million Africans are believed to have died
before they even reached the Americas.
I can't even put into words or even understand
what it must have been like
for those Africans who were kept here
in those horrendous conditions, horrendous conditions,
many of them from the tribe that I'm from.
And what's even worse is to know
that what happened here, for them, was just the beginning.
Senegal was a French colony until 1960.
It's the only country in this region that hasn't had a coup
or a civil war since independence.
It's actually one of the most stable countries in West Africa.
The sea and fishing is central to the economy in this country,
so I'm about to take a boat trip.
Wish me luck, cos I haven't got sea wheels.
MUSIC: Mandola by Papa Wemba
I'd come to a fishing port a couple of hours south of Dakar.
Karim has spent most of his life fishing here.
So, how far are we going out?
It seems like fishing is so important for the people here.
Fish, fish, fish, fish.
HE SPEAKS IN FRENCH
I can see them, I can see them. There, there, there.
So there was I thinking they'd have a few fishing rods,
but, no, they do it differently here.
They've got a big net and when they spot the fish,
they basically encircle the fish with this giant net.
HE SPEAKS IN FRENCH
THEY BANG ON THE BOAT
Karim, what are you doing? Why are you doing this?
THEY SPEAK IN FRENCH
Almost 2,000 fishing boats work out of this port.
I've taken some taxis in my time,
but this is going to be definitely the strangest one.
Yeah.
Back on up.
Voila. Phew, I'm on.
ADE LAUGHS
Fish is big business here. It's Senegal's biggest export.
This is where a lot of the fish is brought after it's been caught.
'Fridges and freezers are a bit of a luxury here,
'so the fish has to be smoked and dried to preserve it.'
Now, if you look down on the ground, it gives you a little idea
of just how much fish comes through this place.
Cos at first, I thought this was sand,
but when you look closely and you pick it up, it's fish scale.
Voila, c'est ca.
Has there been a time where you have filled
the whole of this grill with fish?
Wow.
Whoa, the heat is intense.
I mean, it's already hot here, but that is kicking off some heat.
I think my tyres are going to start melting.
Marie and Karim, you've both been working with fish for a long time.
Have you seen things change over the years?
All along the West African coast, locals say that foreign trawlers,
mostly from the Far East, are taking their fish.
In the last few years,
11 fish meal factories have opened up on Senegal's coastline.
They take fish and turn it into a powder.
It's used to feed pigs and cattle
and even the farmed salmon we buy in our supermarkets.
Who do you blame for this problem?
Merci beaucoup. Merci.
Ciao. Ciao.
'What I find worrying is the fact that Senegal's main resource,
'its fish stock, is becoming
'more and more under control of foreign business.'
Rather than being used to feed its people, who really need it,
it's bizarrely being sent to rich countries
to fatten up their livestock,
just so we can have good meat on our tables.
Africa is so rich in natural resources,
but it's still the poorest continent on Earth.
GULLS SQUAWK
In Senegal, the economy is growing fast, but life is still tough.
MUSIC: Kokoliko by Pape & Cheikh
So, this is it. We're just coming up to the lake.
A lot of Africans have to work seriously hard
to feed their families.
I'd come to Lake Retba to put in a shift.
Bonjour, Monsieur Jean.
'Jean is a salt miner.'
I'll be your work buddy. Come on, let's go out there.
This is how we do it.
ADE LAUGHS
I can see why you're the main man. You've got some strength, dude.
Right.
Merci beaucoup. Merci. Oui.
Now, apparently, this lake has got a higher concentration of salt
than the Dead Sea.
GULLS SQUAWK
Wow, look at this.
You can see all the salt
that has gathered around the stick at the top.
I think we've got...
Oh! Oh!
HE COUGHS
Eurgh!
'Senegal is one of the biggest salt producers in Africa.
'The workers on this lake haul out
'tens of thousands of tonnes a year.'
Do you have to do any sort of preparation
before you go into the water?
And that protects your skin?
If you're just tuning in, don't switch over.
You are watching the right channel.
More butter, please.
It's not deep at all.
I'm going to get in there and see what it's like for myself.
Ooh, yes, you can feel it all in your toes.
Look at that. It's so thick that you can just scoop it up.
I didn't even have to get to the bottom of the lake to pick that up.
As I was going down, it was just gathering in my hand.
The water in the lake comes from the sea.
It doesn't take long to evaporate in this baking sun,
leaving the salt behind.
Jean, these boats here are piled high with salt.
How many hours would they have spent on the lake to collect all of that?
So, they'll spend many, many hours on this lake, gathering the salt.
Jean gets about half a penny for every kilo of salt.
It's not much to support a family,
which explains why so many people are desperate to leave.
Hundreds of thousands of migrants from sub-Saharan Africa
try to get to Europe every year.
And it's often the brightest, hardest working
and most determined who leave.
So, will you try to leave Senegal again?
Jean isn't running from war or oppression.
He's trying to escape this life of poverty.
He wants more for his family,
the same as my parents wanted for me.
MUSIC: Halanam by JuJu
I was headed to Nigeria, the country where I was born.
But first, I was on my way to the Ivory Coast
and its biggest city, Abidjan.
Oh, my days! Look at the level of rain.
It is absolutely bucketing it down.
We've only just got here,
and this place feels like a completely different part of Africa.
I can barely see the car ahead of us.
There's literally rivers of water cascading along the pavements.
'I'd come here to find out about a subject close to my heart,
'African football.'
Just stopped, because I've seen another billboard of Didier Drogba.
He's absolutely everywhere, all over Abidjan,
and in case you didn't know,
Didier Drogba was a star striker
that played for Chelsea Football Club.
He's everywhere. He's like a god in this town.
'It's not just Drogba
'Ex-Manchester City superstar Yaya Toure and his brother, Kolo,
'used to play football in these streets,
'so did dozens of other players at big European clubs.
'Many of them began their careers
'at Ivory Coast's top club, ASEC Mimosas.'
This rain is next level.
HE SHRIEKS AND LAUGHS
Oh, my days! That was deeper than I thought it would be. Oh!
Oh, you're having a laugh, you're having a laugh.
Oh, my days! My socks!
HE LAUGHS
'I was being shown round by Stephane Yapi.'
CHEERING
ZUMBA MUSIC PLAYS
What are they doing here?
HE SHOUTS INSTRUCTIONS
I love this. What do you do
when you've got a load of bored teenagers
who can't train because it's raining?
You take them for a zumba class.
ZUMBA MUSIC PLAYS
Somehow, I'm not sure if I could see them
doing that at Chelsea or Man United, but maybe they should.
Those guys have got rhythm. It might help on the pitch.
The youth academy's at the heart of this club.
Most of the top players pass through here on their way to stardom.
Vous aidez? Oui, je vous aide. Allez.
Oop-la.
Attention. OK. OK.
So, Kolo Toure, he stayed in this room?
Can we go in? Let's go.
Look at all the trainers at the top, all the boots.
'Young players eat, sleep and grow up on site.'
These players, their whole day is controlled,
and that's what being an elite athlete is about,
and it shows what ASEC Mimosas is trying to do.
They're bringing elite sport to Ivorian football.
MUSIC: Les Temps Ont Change by Amadou & Mariam
Woo! Nice play!
That's good, good movement.
Are there any of these players
that you think could make it on the big stage,
could go to Europe, perhaps?
That's a name to remember.
You look tired. You worked hard.
It's amazing. You're here at a club with so much history.
If these kids make it here, it would transform their lives.
What lesson is this? What are you guys are learning the moment?
So, which do you prefer, to learn French or to play football?
Football. Football. Only football.
Yeah.
Which team in the world would you like to play for?
Paris Saint-Germain. Paris Saint-Germain.
Barcelona. Barcelona.
ASEC Mimosas. ASEC? Yes.
This guy is loyal, that's I'm talking about.
APPLAUSE
Bonne chance, bonne chance.
Initially when I came here,
I was expecting to just see football pitches and kids training.
I'm very surprised that you've got classes here.
Most of the trainees won't make it to the top,
but ASEC are making sure that these kids are prepared, whatever happens.
But not everyone is so honest.
'Adjiman McKenzie is a 20-year-old footballer.
'Last year, he thought he'd hit the big time.'
Ah, here you are. Bonjour. How are you?
Ca va? Yes, I'm fine, and you? Yes, good. You speak good English.
Can I come in? Yes, come in.
This way? Ici? Yes.
Can you tell me about your experience of playing in Europe?
Have you got any pictures of you when you were in Moscow? Yes.
Yes, I'm sorry if this brings back bad memories for you.
'Adjiman had no trial, no club and no job,
'and he had to support himself in an expensive city,
'where he didn't speak the language.'
Did you pay the agent any money?
That's about $6,000. How were you able to get that money?
Wow!
West Africa is full of dodgy football agents
out for a quick buck.
Thousands of young players are trafficked abroad
every year on a lie.
Many end up homeless, unable to afford a flight home.
Africa's footballers seem to be yet another resource
that's getting exploited.
MUSIC: No Agreement by Fela Kuti
The last stop on this leg of my journey was Nigeria.
It's home to 200 million people, more than anywhere else in Africa.
Its biggest city, Lagos, is where I was born.
I got polio when I was 15 months old and my parents moved me to London.
I've only been back here a couple of times since.
If my parents hadn't taken me to the UK,
these are the streets and this is the place that I would have come to.
It's a bit different from Newham in East London.
MUSIC: Night Walk by JuJu
'I'd come to catch up with some guys that I'd met last time I was here.
'Like me, they're polio survivors who love sport.'
Look at them playing para-soccer. I love this sport, man.
Ortega is the man, the one with the yellow top.
He's awesome.
Look how well they move on those skateboards...
..just little planks of wood with wheels underneath.
Whoa!
Behind the back.
Hey, my friend! Wassup? Wassup?
Long time, man, long time no see.
You good? Yeah. Good, man. Wow!
You've still got it, man, you've still got the skills.
You add more. Yes, I can see you're better now. All right.
Do you guys, with your disability and with polio,
do you get any help from the government?
you told me you were going to set up a business,
all of you guys were going to set up a business. Yes.
How has that gone? Have you done it?
I've only just got back to Lagos. I haven't seen it for a long time.
Would I be able to go in your tuk-tuk with you
and you can show me the scenes and the sites?
Yes, I can.
I'll jump in the back, shall I? Yeah.
Surulere, please, driver. OK. Yeah!
Whoa!
ADE LAUGHS
'Ortega and his friends have adapted their tuk-tuks
'to work with just hand controls.'
MUSIC: Nangaraba by Amadou & Mariam
Wow, that was close.
CAR HORN BEEPS
Everybody here's crazy.
MUSIC: Nangaraba by Amadou & Mariam
Wow!
'Lagos is one of the world's biggest and maddest cities.
'14 million people live, work and hustle here.'
This is the very centre of Lagos. The centre, the centre.
'This city is Nigeria's powerhouse.'
Wow, it's so tight.
Look how close this guy is to us. Oh!
Everything is by millimetres.
Not even centimetres, millimetres.
'Ortega's tuk-tuk business is doing well,
'but even with the money they're earning,
'he and his mates still can't afford a proper home.'
Is this near the bridge where you guys stay?
I recognise it. So, you still live underneath the bridge?
No money.
Thank you, Ortega. Thank you very much. All right.
That's one way to stop!
THEY LAUGH
I'm in total awe of these guys
because living in Lagos for anybody is difficult,
but living in Lagos when you're disabled,
with minimal help from the government, it's so tough.
I will never complain about living in the UK.
I think these guys epitomise the Lagosian spirit, man.
They just don't give up. They're my heroes.
Nigeria has the biggest economy in Africa and massive oil reserves.
People here should be rich, but they're not,
and it's hard to blame outsiders or foreign powers.
There's terrible corruption, bad management and widespread crime.
The state provides hardly anything for its citizens,
so many people look elsewhere for support.
My mum and my dad, if he was alive, would be very proud of me,
because I'm on my way to church.
Now, joking aside, church is a big deal here in Nigeria,
and for many people, religion is serious business.
The Redeemed Christian Church of God is a Nigerian megachurch.
I was being shown around by a pastor.
So, right over here on the left is the auditorium.
This big structure in front of me? Yes, you're right.
That is gigantic. Look at the size of this place.
We could drive for quite a while and still not get to the other end.
It's enormous!
This church is used for monthly services.
It's 500 metres wide and more than 1,000 metres long.
We're close to about the midway point in the auditorium now.
How many people would you be able to fit in this place?
On Holy Ghost nights, when everywhere is full,
about a million people can fit under here.
A million people? Yes.
That's incredible!
There are more than 80 million Christians in Nigeria,
and it felt like you could get most of them in here.
But apparently, it's not big enough.
I am truly astounded by this.
They're building a new one,
which they say will be three times the size.
About three million people are meant to fit under that roof.
Is this the biggest church structure in the world?
To the best of my knowledge, I think it is. Words escape me.
And there's more, much more.
The church's HQ here covers 2,000 acres,
the size of a small town.
We're on the ring road. How many churches have their own ring road?
Is that a bank? You have a bank here as well?
Oh, yes, we have all the banks here.
'There's also a maternity hospital, TV station and power plant.
'It even has a funfair.'
I've not seen a church like this.
There's no church that I know that has a fairground.
The church funds hundreds of charitable projects
across Nigeria, from schools to drug rehab centres,
and it all costs money.
That's a nice ramp.
Red carpeted ramp.
'The church says it has 40,000 branches across Nigeria
'and a lot of its money comes from its congregation.'
The church's millions of worshippers are encouraged
to donate 10% of their wages.
It's the second round of offerings. Round two.
Amen.
# Praise to the Lord... #
The Redeemed Christian Church of God has branches
all over the world.
It's become a multimillion-dollar business empire.
I met up with the head of the church in Nigeria, Pastor Joseph Obayemi.
I've never seen anything like this before in my life,
you know, a church on this scale.
What is your vision, then, for the future?
What is the ultimate goal for you guys?
We have decided, through our Father and the Lord,
that by the grace of God, in every developing countries,
we will plant churches within five minutes' walking distance.
In developed countries, like yours,
we pray that we will be able to plant churches,
that is, a branch of our churches,
within five minutes of driving distance.
Why does it need to be your church that does the whole world?
We want to fulfil everything that the Lord Jesus Christ has said,
not minding what it's costing us.
If others are not doing it, we fear less.
But the fee is free to everybody.
As the church has grown, it's got richer,
and so has its global head, Pastor Joseph's boss.
Some people claim he's now worth over $100 million.
I think there'll be some people who may be uncomfortable
when they watch this and they see the amount of wealth that you have.
you know, the head of your church.
I mean, how do you marry those two,
because there are millions of poor people in this country?
Thank you very much. You're welcome.
I hope one day you'll become a member
of the Redeemed Christian Church of God
because Jesus always thought you have,
and you'll become genuinely born-again child of God.
God bless you.
If you get a roller-coaster, maybe I'll think about it. Oh...
'Whatever you think of them,'
Nigeria's massive Christian churches have stepped in
to provide order and safety in people's lives
where the government has failed.
MUSIC: Zombie by Fela Kuti
I wanted to explore some of the rest of the country.
Every time I come to Nigeria,
I've always been so focused on getting to Lagos
and seeing what's happening out there,
and it's really easy to forget how big this country is.
This is the first time I'm getting to see the rural parts of Nigeria.
There's so much open space, look at it.
I was in proper farming country, Benue State,
known as the breadbasket of Nigeria.
70% of people here are farmers.
It looks like another checkpoint here we're coming up to.
This guy looks really serious.
All of them are heavily armed as well.
Good morning. Good morning.
Thank you. Thank you.
'Recently, this part of the country has been scarred by violence.'
We are together.
The far north of Nigeria has been hit by an Islamist insurgency,
lead by a group called Boko Haram,
that's caused a lot of trouble
and killed a lot of people in the last few years.
But actually, there's another conflict
that's killed even more people in the last year,
and that's what I'm on my way to find out about now.
'We were told we needed an armed escort to travel any further.'
Burnt-out vehicle here.
'Villagers across this area have been attacked,
'houses torched and families massacred.
'The government has been powerless to protect people.'
So, we've stopped.
Our guys have got out.
I'm not sure what to expect here.
'This village used to be home to farmers from the Tiv ethnic group.'
This place has just been devastated.
Got more burnt-out huts.
Pretty much all the huts have been burnt,
they've been torched,
and on the floor here,
you can see where the roofs have been burnt and caved in.
Look at this glass.
It's been melted.
'No-one knows exactly how many people have died,
'but it's in the thousands.'
The silence is eerie.
I mean, this place should have loads of people in it, but...
I've seen a lot of houses and huts but not much life.
No smoke, no sign of life, no clothes hanging up or anything.
'On the outskirts of a nearby town,
'I found out where everyone had gone.'
Look at all these people, so many people.
Women, children, babies...
There's just loads of them.
The villagers had fled to a makeshift government camp.
So, how many people are here?
We have a total number of 34,986.
Here? In here.
34,000... 34,986.
They have been here for the past four months, in this camp.
So, within four months, you've got 35,000 people. Yes, sir.
This is one out of the eight camps in Benue State.
We have a total number of 175,070.
So, is this where the people sleep? Yes.
How many people will sleep in this space?
More than 100 families in one room. More than 100 families?
100 families. Just in this room?
Managing themselves, yeah, these families.
They have run for their lives.
Some of them witnessed how they killed their relations.
Some of them escaped narrowly from the Fulani herdsmen attack.
The Fulani are a different ethnic group.
A lot of them are cattle herders
who move from place to place across West Africa.
Who killed them?
This conflict has hardly been reported in the West,
but it's threatening to spiral out of control.
I wanted to meet the Fulani to hear their side of the story.
I think you've got to be pretty tough to live out here.
There doesn't seem to be any decent roads
and it's in the wilderness, look at it.
The Fulani are one of West Africa's largest ethnic groups.
There are around 25 million of them.
'I'd come to meet Salle.'
The Fulani have always been known as peaceful people,
but the war in the north
and climate change have pushed them into new lands.
They're now competing for the same land as farmers.
To keep them off farmland,
some local governments have banned cattle from grazing,
which isn't great if you're a cattle herder.
These your cows? Yeah.
Wow, so this is all the milk?
Is this land not good for grazing?
Have you lost any cattle so far?
Earlier, I met some Tiv villagers
who seem extremely frightened of Fulani herdsman.
Erm, you know, they say they've been terrorised by you guys
and I'm struggling to work out how that has happened.
It isn't impossible to verify Salle's story,
but there have been reports of farmers, militia,
and even policeman carrying out revenge attacks against the Fulani.
So, do you think these new laws are destroying
the way of life of Fulani?
This conflict feels like the sort of thing
that could have happened 2,000 years ago.
It shows how far Nigeria still has to go.
Despite vast resources,
the government can't keep its people safe and fed.
For this country to develop,
it looks like Nigerians will have to rely on themselves.
Luckily, as I'd already seen,
there's an entrepreneurial spirit here that's second to none.
Ah, Mohini! Hey, how are you?
'Before the end of my journey,
'I'd come to meet Mohini Ufeli at Andela.
'It's a tech company hoping the internet can transform Africa.'
First of all, the graff. Yes.
I wouldn't expect anything less from a tech company,
even if you're in Lagos. Yeah, we're all about the graffiti.
That's cool. You did that yourself, yeah? I wish!
Andela takes bright young Africans
and teaches them how to write computer code.
Then, they're outsourced to major companies around the world,
without ever having to leave Lagos.
So that's the code that's created that.
'Getting on the training programme is a big deal.'
These people you see right here are in their second week of boot camp.
So, this is a really important moment in these guys' lives.
It really is. They're the individuals that we have identified
as having the potential to become world-class software developers
and be able to work with teams around the world.
So, basically, the people who make it here,
are the very, very best, the cream of the crop. They are.
Once they've made it, they get to code
and do all the other things
that true Silicon Valley tech teams would do.
How can any self-respecting, high-flying tech company
not be worth its salt, without an arts and craft week? Exactly!
You've got to create outlets for people to express themselves.
Is this something that you feel you finally,
or Africa can finally take control of,
you know, their own product that they're giving to the world?
I think we can agree that tech is the future.
And this is only going to grow.
For every software developer that exists,
there are five jobs available for them.
So, if we hop on that train,
and we're able to develop that knowledge for ourselves,
then no-one can take that away from us.
There's an incredible work ethic here
and, frankly, a lot of cheap labour.
Combine that with technology,
and this country and continent could fly.
It happened in Asia and I'm hoping it'll happen here next.
Next time...
..I'm in central Africa...
Bonjour.
No, no tongues, no tongues!
..with a new generation fighting to change this continent.
We are turning things around. Peace.