The Cold War waged in Africa

It's twenty years today since the fall of the Berlin Wall - the barrier which divided East Germany from West, the communist bloc from the capitalist world.

The tearing down of the wall was symbolic of a wider collapse in the old world order - the end of communism and the implosion of the Soviet empire.

During the Cold War, Africa had been something of a battle ground for the US and Russia as they squared up to one another, with Soviet support for a number of rebel movements including South Africa's African National Congress and Unita in Angola.

So how did all this impact on the continent? Richard Dowden, director of the Royal African Society here in the UK spoke to BBC Network Africa's Paul Bakibinga.