A Fork in the Road

From azure Mediterranean shores to Troglodyte cave-homes; Chador-clad women to bikini-wearing babes - Tunisia is an ancient country with wildly contrasting lifestyles and attitudes.

Pria meets the four main groups of people who live in Kenya: the Bantu-speaking majority; the Indians – who control the economy; the remnants of the white planters and the Nilots, or Nomadic tribes, which include the legendary Maasai. For most of the time, they are polite friends and, at the very least, they are tolerant of each other but without a doubt, they’re all getting on with the business of being Kenyan.

Over 2 episodes, Pria explores white Cape Town through the eyes of locals such as Aryn Guiney. She lives in Hout Bay, a small coastal town south of the city, and commutes to work each day. Aryn is among other white South Africans featured in the programme unanimously proclaiming that The Cape is, and will always be their home. The reasons for this are varied.

Over 2 episodes, Pria explores white Cape Town through the eyes of locals such as Aryn Guiney. She lives in Hout Bay, a small coastal town south of the city, and commutes to work each day. Aryn is among other white South Africans featured in the programme unanimously proclaiming that The Cape is, and will always be their home. The reasons for this are varied.

Ethiopia – lush rolling green fields of maize and sunflowers; the remote lip-plate wearing Mursi people; 1500 year-old churches carved from rock; the original cup of coffee and an injera feast ..

Who lives in Madagascar? What do they look like? What are their homes like? What do they wear, eat and talk about in this.. “the closest Asian country to Africa” as the Malagasy prefer it to be known.

Zanzibar conjures up images of trade winds and old world spices. Pria’s exploration of Unguja island confirms that Tintin would never be far from the old Stone Town.

Timbuktu – the perfect place for Pria to begin his journey into Mali. This area is home to the Tuareg people who roam the semi-desert, diminishing buffer between Mali’s outer settlements and the unrelenting approach of the Sahara Desert.

From wide-boy comedians to angry authors, Pria ends this series on Africa in Paris. Given France’s large colonial influence in Africa, Pria samples the African diaspora in Paris – asking why they are more French than African and why France is perceived to have been a “better coloniser” than the rest.