The BBC1 Documentary
A return visit to see how two new countries are making out.

Richard West, author and journalist, goes back to a corner of the Third World to find out how two former colonies - one French, one British - are facing the challenge of independence.

The five million people who live in Senegal and The Gambia are close to each other in race and way of life. Yet the cultural and economic heritage bequeathed them by their former rulers makes the Senegalese a very French African, while his cousin along the banks of the Gambia River remains unmistakably British.