Following the break-up of Cream, Ginger Baker, many times voted the 'world's best drummer,' set off from London armed with maps, compasses, cameras, film, nearly 80 gallons of petrol and assorted water carriers to drive to West Africa in search of new ideas and musicians to play with. In tonight's Omnibus, Baker records the journey across the Sahara to Nigeria and the musical cultures he found when he arrived.

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