Sunday Feature

Nile Lands

Sunday 19 September 2004 21:30-22:15 (Radio 3)

2. Uganda

Zeinab Badawi continues her cultural journey through the countries connected by the Nile, exploring how the river has shaped their identities and helped to form perceptions of Africa in the Western imagination.

For centuries the source of the White Nile was a mystery. The ancients thought it rose in the heart of Africa and there was talk of the "Mountains of the Moon". Even as late as the first half of the nineteenth century no one was sure. It was a British explorer, John Hanning Speke, who claimed to have settled the issue in 1862 when he saw a huge river leaving the then unnamed Lake Victoria in Uganda. Zeinab Badawi considers what led to this claim and what Ugandans then and now made of the discovery.

Duration:

45 minutes

Sunday Feature

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