{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/6ad181077ce338e8cdeb10d0?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"The Earth Transformed | Africa and Us | 3","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/68e4c0be965488b63a6987c5/1792118574023-f2148fea-9e9e-4956-80bd-fb3404024024.jpeg?height=200","description":"<p>Why were the first cowboys in the Americas from West Africa?</p><p><br></p><p>What does it mean in Akan culture when a man &quot;eats from another woman&#39;s pot&quot;?</p><p><br></p><p>And, could a mosquito be the reason Ghana never became a settler colony like South Africa or Kenya?</p><p><br></p><p>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.</p><p><br></p><p>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&#39;s gold. Then food: why a Ghanaian host will never let you leave hungry, the European visitors who resented Africa&#39;s abundance, a colleague in Senegal who thought the perfect birthday present was a goat, and the jollof wars. Plus the genetic resistance to malaria that shaped the slave trade, and how the mosquito kept European settlers out of West Africa and sent Afua&#39;s grandfather to Cambridge.</p><p><br></p><p>Join <strong>Legacy Plus</strong> for bonus episodes, early access, Q&amp;A&#39;s, fewer adverts and more.</p><p><strong>legacy.supportingcast.fm</strong></p><p><br></p><p>[0:00] Land, food and race: three ways Africa shaped the world</p><p>[2:01] Is &quot;Africa&quot; even the right word?</p><p>[7:22] Villages with no walls and no kings</p><p>[11:01] Two Ghanas, and Mansa Musa&#39;s gold</p><p>[13:08] Why you&#39;ll never leave a Ghanaian home hungry</p><p>[17:04] The first cowboys in the Americas</p><p>[21:56] A goat for a birthday, and the jollof wars</p><p>[25:57] Malaria, genes and the slave trade</p><p>[29:50] How the mosquito kept settlers out of West Africa</p><p>[32:56] Africans telling their own stories</p><p><br></p><p>Stay connected with Legacy:</p><p>Instagram: @originallegacypodcast</p><p>TikTok: @legacy_productions</p><p><br></p><p>Explore more from Peter and Afua — essays, sources, and ideas:</p><p>Substack: peterfrankopan.substack.com | afuahirsch.substack.com</p>","author_name":"Original Legacy Productions"}