A chronicle of colonial life in Africa compiled from the memories of the men and women who worked there.
1: White Man's Burden - White Man's Grave
' They would set up a Union Jack in their camp and rather tend to impress the natives with what wonderful things the British were doing for them.'
' I had a district of about 6,000 square miles, and it was a great life.'
' I remember we had to take almost everything with us, clothing, food. almost all the furniture.' ' We were brought up to wear the helmet until
3.0 and then a homburg hat until sunset.'
The history of British rule in Africa is a short one; it began and ended almost within the span of a man's lifetime. In the first of five programmes. Charles Allen introduces the memories of those who ruled Africa at the time when ' the British Empire was the cock of the world'.
Producer . HELEN FRY
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