** Gambia: Missive from the dark continent

** Senegal: More tales from the dark continent

*** THE TRIP TO CASAMANCE

*** EASY LIVING IN THE CAP

*** CAP SKIRING - THE VILLAGE

*** CASAMANCE - THE WAR

*** THE JOLA - PEOPLE AND PLACES

*** FRANCE'S COLONIAL LEGACY

** You don't want to go to Dakar

*** I YOU DON'T WANT TO GO TO DAKAR

*** II GOING TO DAKAR

*** III DAKAR, CAPITAL OF FRENCH WEST AFRICA

*** IV DAKAR STREETLIFE

**** Bana Bana

**** Beggars

*** V. COUPE AFRICAINE de NATIONS - CAN

*** VI SENEGAL'S MODEL DEMOCRACY

**** Transhumance

**** Corruption and Clientelism

**** Petty politics

** Mali - Take one large desert, one large river...

*** Health

*** Glorious mud

*** Poverty and Culture

*** Djenné & Timbuktu

*** Timbuktu

*** Travel & Comfort

*** The Baché lesson of Sibi

*** Timbuktu - up the Niger

*** Hostility

*** Guides

*** Scarcity

** Burkina Faso - Big men and Little people

*** I. GETTING THERE

*** II. TRADITIONAL LIVING

**** Dogonia

**** Lobonia

*** III. THE LAND OF THE NGO

*** IV. THE BIG MAN

*** V. CULTURE WEEK

*** VI. SINDOU'S LITTLE BIG MAN

** The Cote de Khaki

*** I ROADBLOCKS - THE BENEFITS OF MASS PRODUCTION

*** II MILITARY RULE

*** III QUICK TOUR - FORESTS, HILLS & BEACHES

**** Man

**** San Pedro & Sassandra

*** IV ABIDJAN - PAVEMENT CRACKS

** Pray for Ghana

*** AXIM

**** Clap for Jesus

**** Read for Jesus

**** Get better for Jesus

*** II EUROPEAN RELICS OF THE GOLD COAST

*** III GHANA TODAY

**** The English legacy

**** Accra

**** The Flight Lieutenant

**** Kumasi

**** Winneba

*** IV THE BEACH

**** Busua

**** Ada

** Togo - Four glorious days

*** Togo's Finest

** Benin - sightseeing

*** Stilt living

*** Snakes 'n slaves

*** Dahomey - skulls

** Lagos the great

*** I IN AT THE DEEP END

*** II THINGS FALL APART

**** POWER

**** PHONES

*** A TO B

*** CASH

*** III EXPATONIA

*** IV ALAGBON: DANGEROUS LIKE A LIONS DEN

*** V THE GENERAL STRIKE

**** THE STRIKE BEGINS.

**** THE STRIKE CONTINUES

** Nigeria, bubblin'

*** 1 CRISES WITHOUT END

**** Labour.

**** Government

**** Violence

**** Sharia

*** II OSHOGBO - HOLY SMOKE

*** III BENIN

*** IV PORT HARCOURT OILFIELDS/BATTLEGROUNDS

*** V CALABAR

*** VI THE TROUBLE WITH NIGERIA

*** VII OUT OF NIGERIA

** Cameroun - Cameroon - Kamerun

*** II South West Province

**** Kumba

**** Mundemba

**** Limbe

*** III Two French cities

**** France's Civilizing Mission

**** The Post Office

*** IV Into the Central African rainforest

**** Crossing Central Africa?

**** Illness

*** V INTO THE FOREST

**** Yokadouma

**** Mambele

**** Lake Lobeke

**** Back to Yokadouma

** Central African Republic: You see how we suffer?

*** I TRIP TO BERBERATI

**** Gari Gombole

**** CAR - first blood

**** lunch

**** arrival

*** II A DAY IN BERBERATI

*** III BERBERATI - THE BUS PARK

**** Attack - wave 1

**** Wave 2

**** Wave 3

**** Final assuault

*** IV THE ROAD TO BANGUI

**** Arrival

** Central African Republic: Bangui, capital of misery

*** I BANGUI, a tragedy

*** II ACROSS THE RIVER

*** III SIGHTSEEING

*** IV ESCAPE FROM BANGUI - ATTEMPT 1

*** V TREADING WATER

*** VI PRESIDENTIAL DECREES

**** Friday

*** VII ESCAPE FROM BANGUI - ATTEMPT 2

**** Military games

**** Getaway