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The Earth Transformed | Africa and Us | 3
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Why were the first cowboys in the Americas from West Africa? What does it mean in Akan culture when a man "eats from another woman's pot"? And, could a mosquito be the reason Ghana never became a settler colony like South Africa or Kenya? In the next part of The Earth Transformed, Peter Frankopan and Afua Hirsch put Africa at the centre of the story, and find it at the centre of ours too. West African villages with no walls and no kings, because there was enough for everyone. An ancient Ghana nowhere near modern Ghana, and Mansa Musa's gold. Then food: why a Ghanaian host will never let you leave hungry, the European visitors who resented Africa's abundance, a colleague in Senegal who…