For the first time on this scale the BBC brings African audiences in the UK and listeners from across the African continent together in a link-up between local African and UK radio stations with the help BBC World Service's specialist interactive programme for Africa, Africa Live!

Starting on 4 July 2005, Africa Live! works with its partner stations in Mozambique, Nigeria, Tanzania and Uganda and the BBC local radio stations, to connect people from communities in the UK and those across Africa to share thought on a range of issues affecting their lives, from investment and health to sport.

The Africa Live! anchor, Solomon Mugera, is on the ground at BBC stations in Cornwall, Derby, Leicester, Manchester and Three Counties talking to people about the issues of the day.

Simultaneously, in Nigeria, Tanzania, Uganda and Mozambique, on-the-ground presenters will discuss the same issues with local people in the markets, the schools and the streets.

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Monday, 4 July 2005: To what extent is any sporting contest won inside the head?

BBC Radio Derby and the BBC's Nigerian partner station Ray Power team up for a discussion on the above topic.

Nigerian footballer Taribo West, who played for UK's Derby County in 2000, is returning to the city to take part in the show. At the same time, thousands of miles away in West's home town of Port Harcourt, Ray Power FM connected via satellite to the show as guests and presenter Oworu Oloyede joins Solomon Mugera of Africa Live! and BBC Derby's Ross Fletcher.

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Tuesday, 5 July 2005: We are eating curry in Leicester's oldest Indian restaurant set up by a Ugandan family after they were deported from Africa by Idi Amin in the 1970s.

We join up with people in Kampala to ask what they choose to invest their time and energy in?

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Wednesday, 6 July 2005: We are entertained by a male choir in Cornwall and a marrabenta band in Mozambique as we ask how these two coastal communities are grappling with retaining their identity and their environment while still enjoying the benefits of tourism.

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Friday, 8 July 2005: We are in Manchester in the place where most people watch their football, a pub. We join up with Lagos, a Nigerian city where many football fans prefer to watch English Premiership matches over local games.

So, is the premiership killing off African football or is the influx of foreign players, including Africans, into the English game stifling development of young British talent?