I ve admired Michael Palin for half a century, so it was with some sadness that I switched off halfway through Channel 5 s new series of Palin in Nigeria, writes ZAREER MASANI.
Admiral Lord Alan West (pictured) has thrown his weight behind a campaign to create the first memorial to the Royal Navy s West Africa Squadron, which seized slave trade vessels bound for the Americas.
Semi-retired management consultant Colin Kemp, 76, has launched a fundraising campaign to build a monument to the Royal Navy s West Africa Squadron, which freed more than 150,000 slaves.