10 August 2005 Nile Lands Part Two
Wednesday 10 August 2005 21:45-22:30 (Radio 3)
The Nile is the world's longest river, the lifeblood of one of the first great civilisations and the route that brought Europeans into the heart of Africa. Over four programmes, Zeinab Badawi visits the countries through which the Nile flows to explore how the river has shaped their different cultural identities and helped to form perceptions of Africa in the Western imagination.
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2/4. Uganda
For centuries, the source of the White Nile was a mystery. The ancients thought it rose in the heart of Africa and there was talk of the Mountains of the Moon. Even as late as the first half of the 19th Century, no-one was sure. It was a British explorer, John Hanning Speke, who claimed to have settled the issue in 1862 when he saw a huge river leaving the then unnamed Lake Victoria in Uganda. Zeinab considers what led to this claim and what Ugandans made of the discovery.
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