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From Our Own Correspondent: Karachi and Kansas

22/03/2013

Karachi and Kansas

BBC World Service - From Our Own Correspondent, Karachi and Kansas

Shahzeb Jillani returns to a dangerous Pakistani city; Sarfraz Manzoor meets a film legend

Shahzeb Jillani explains why he's going back to report on a dangerous Pakistani city; in the Midwest, Sarfraz Manzoor meets Herb Jeffries, the Black cowboy film star who wasn't.

Pascale Harter introduces personal stories, reflections and insight from correspondents around the world. In this edition, Shahzeb Jillani explains why he's going back to Karachi, to report on one of Pakistan's most dangerous cities even if his mum insists it's "a godforsaken place". In the American Midwest, Sarfraz Manzoor unravels an enigma of Hollywood history: what happened to all the black cowboys in the Westerns? Meeting the  man once billed as the first black cowboy screen idol, he learns there is more than one twist to the tale of Herb Jeffries.

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