Show me the Money, (African School)

Lion TV for BBC 4

Nicki Stoker

The brief for the series ‘African School’ was to challenge preconceptions about Africa and Africans and create a better understanding of the issues facing developing countries.

This programme, which formed part of the ’Africa Lives’ season in summer 2005 provides a hugely informative and entertaining take on the Millennium Development Goals of Universal Primary Education, showing how this plays out in the Ugandan town of Masindi. It not only presents the problems in an uncompromising but lively way, but gives hope that Africans will come up with African solutions. It feels fresh and new throughout, and is a worthy winner indeed of the first Millennium Development Goals award.

Bill Locke:

"Looking at the categories for the One World Awards this year we soon realized that these, more than any others, seem to sum up exactly what our series African School was all about; recognising work in the developing world that gives a voice to the people themselves, making sense of their lives and ours too.  With this in mind, Lion Television was especially pleased that the series as whole was honoured with two of these very special awards."