Holidays In The Danger Zone

Ben Anderson's first ports of call are Liberia and Sierra Leone, where he finds both optimism in the face of adversity and a pervasive desire for peace.

Ben Anderson concludes his adventures along Africa's west coast, where modern-day states live with a legacy of slavery, colonial carve-ups and horrific civil wars. In the impoverished Ivory Coast he finds a basilica taller than the Vatican, while in Benin voodoo is flourishing and a huge oil spill in Nigeria's delta has blighted the land.