One to One with Bill Goodman:
June Arunga
aired June 30 and July 2, 2006
“There is so much work to be done in Africa, and Africans must help themselves. We can no longer afford to rely on rich countries to provide us with foreign aid. It’s the person whom the shoe pinches who knows how it needs to be adjusted,” says Kenyan activist and filmmaker June Arunga. She’s Bill Goodman’s guest on this edition of One to One.
Like many Africans, Arunga is frustrated by the problems of her continent and has considered leaving. But before making her decision, she set out on a voyage to discover why so much of Africa remains in chaos while educated young Africans continue to leave in droves. Embarking from Cairo, she spent six weeks traveling the length of Africa, traversing Egypt, Sudan, Congo, Angola, Namibia, and South Africa. While experiencing the daily realities of life in some of Africa’s worst war zones, she met everyone from tribal leaders and witch doctors to school kids and young rappers. She ended up in Cape Town for a meeting with Bishop Desmond Tutu, one of Africa’s most respected statesmen, and a conversation about her own future as well as the continent’s.
Arunga, who has studied law in Kenya and in England, documented her trip in a film for the BBC called The Devil’s Footpath.
