Exemplified the activist businessman that often stood at the center of the freedom struggle. A figure that is really frequently under analyzed and continues to be under analyzed i would add. He was often overlooked due to an emphasis on the more incendiary elements of the movement. Protests, mobilizations and other dramatic events. I should add that im on this panel because i in a previous life, i studied North Carolina civil rights history. And so, again, i can speak to the ways in which brandons book is making a really significant intervention here in the history, not only in the civil rights period and the writ at large, but also the Civil Rights Movement and struggle and the black struggle in North Carolina and particular. From winners perch at mechanics and farmers bank in durham, he occupied a critical space. He was a consummate insider and power player and understood the calculus of social change dictated various gated approaches to the pursuit of freedom. This is certainly some
Night for all of us, now on bbc news. And dealing with people is politics. And temperatures ranging its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Between 11 14 degrees. 0n into friday, low pressure to the north of the uk. A Conveyor Belt of cloud and rain streaming in off the atlantic but im just guessing will bring quite a lot of rainfall welcome to hardtalk. With your background as a zoologist, im stephen sackur. A man who spent a lot in fact to parts of the north and the west of the uk, our planet is haemorrhaging natural of time out in the field, particularly across west resources at an alarming rate. In nature, often pristine nature, and south west scotland, biodiversity is under threat into northern ireland. As forests are felled, im guessing that perhaps you didnt rainfall totals really wild animals illegally hunted. Actually like dealing mounting up here. But further south and east, again, with people that much. Yes, i started as a closer to the High Pressure over anti social biologist. Th
Now on bbc news. Its hardtalk with stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Our planet is haemorrhaging Natural Resources at an alarming rate. Biodiversity is under threat as forests are felled, wild animals illegally hunted. My guest today is on the frontline of the effort to conserve and protect what remains. Lee white is the newly appointed environment minister in the west african state of gabon. A country famed for its tropical forests, its elephants and gorillas. But also notorious for systemic corruption and inequality. So can gabon find a sustainable balance between the needs of man and nature . Theme music plays. Lee white, welcome to hardtalk. Hello. You first went to gabon as a research zoologist, a young student. You became a conservationist, an environmental campaigner and yet here we sit with you as a government minister, minister for the environment in gabon. How did you get seduced, if i may use that word, into the murky world of politics . Conservation is
Can the west african state of gabon save its environment . Welcome save its environment . To hardtalk. I am stephen sackur. Welcome to hardtalk. I am stephen sackur. Our planet is haemorrhaging Natural Resources at an alarming rate. Biodiversity is under threat as forests are felled, wild animals illegally hunted. My guest today is on the frontline of the effort to c0 nse rve on the frontline of the effort to conserve and what remains. Lee white is the newly appointed environment minister in the west african state of gabon. A country famed for its tropical forests, elephants and gorillas. But also notorious for systemic corruption and inequality. So can gabon find a sustainable balance between the needs of man and nature . Theme music plays. Lee white, welcome to hardtalk. You first went to gabon as a research zoologist. You became an environmental campaigner and here we sit with you as a government minister, ministerforthe environment in gabon. How did you get seduced, if i may use th
Now on bbc news, hardtalk. Can the west african state of gabon save its environment . Welcome to hardtalk. Im stephen sackur. Our planet is haemorrhaging natural well revisit your relationship with the ruling family later, resources at an alarming rate. Because it is important because its politics and you are now a senior and important minister biodiversity is under threat in the gabonese government, as forests are felled, so well come back to politics wild animals illegally hunted. Because, of course, the bongo family my guest today is on the frontline still rules gabon through the son of the effort to conserve and protect what remains. Of omar bongo, ali bongo. But ijust want to come back first of all to forestry. Because it seems to me its a very important test case of what you have tried to achieve in your career. So explain to me, given we know that gabon is systematically corrupt, there is endemic corruption in gabon, and we know that illegal logging is a lucrative business, how