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The Earth Transformed | The World in Motion | 2
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If almost every early migration out of Africa failed, how did any of us get here? Why does an Akan word that once meant "person from beyond the cornfields" now mean a white person? And, when British politicians talk about net migration, who are they leaving out? Peter Frankopan takes Afua Hirsch through 50,000 years of people on the move, using the new illustrated edition of The Earth Transformed. A green Sahara full of lakes. Romans who conquered half the world but didn't spread their genes. Huns and Mongols running empires like a business that had to grow every year. Then the long scars the slave trade left on trust in West Africa, and the Gold Coast students who came to Britain long…