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-After it had exploited '''Doctor Who''' to countries in [[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Australasia and Asia]], the BBC turned its attention to its colonies and Commonwealth nations in Africa, selling [[William Hartnell stories]] to [[Nigeria]], [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe|Rhodesia]], [[Zambia]], [[Uganda]], [[Kenya]], [[Ghana]], [[Mauritius]] and [[Sierra Leone]] all within the two year period, 1965 to 1967.
+After it had exploited '''Doctor Who''' to countries in [[:Category:Australasia/Asia|Australasia and Asia]], the BBC turned its attention to British colonies and Commonwealth nations in Africa, selling [[William Hartnell stories]] to [[Nigeria]], [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe|Rhodesia]], [[Zambia]], [[Uganda]], [[Kenya]], [[Ghana]], [[Mauritius]] and [[Sierra Leone]] all within the two year period, 1965 to 1967.
 After that, the BBC then sold the newly-translated [[Arabic]] package of season 1 and 2 serials to the North African countries [[Tunisia]], [[Morocco]] and [[Libya]] from 1967 to 1969, with the last of the [[Arabic]] Hartnell stories sold to [[Algeria]] in 1973.
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 The BBC had only moderate success with selling colour stories to Africa in the late 1970s / early and late 1980s, with only [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe|Rhodesia and Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]], [[Ghana]], [[Swaziland]], [[Seychelles]], and [[Sierra Leone]] picking up Jon Pertwee and/or Tom Baker episodes. Only [[Swaziland]] and [[Seychelles]] are known to have aired Peter Davison serials. Baker and/or Davison episodes apparently also aired in [[Botswana]] and [[Burkina Faso]], but no listings could be found.
-Satellite channels such as [[BBC Prime]] were available in parts of north Africa in the mid '''1990s'''.
+In the '''mid-1990s''', Satellite channels such as [[BBC Prime]] were available in parts of north Africa, and [[Sci-Fi Channel Southern Africa|Sci-Fi Channel]] in southern Africa.
 ==Africa in Doctor Who==
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 **[[:Category:Central America|Central America]]
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 * Scorby served as a mercenary in Africa and the Middle East ([[The Seeds of Doom]]).
 * Burton says he once hunted buffalo in Africa!  ([[Delta and the Bannermen]]).
-* Redvers Fen Cooper spoke of Stanley and Livingstone, Oluti Forest pygmies, and "the interior". Mention is made of Tarzan and a N'Taba chief ([[Ghost Light]]).
+* Redvers Fen Cooper mentions the Congo, Zanzibar, Stanley and Livingstone, Oluti Forest pygmies, and "the interior". Mention is made of Tarzan and a N'Taba chief ([[Ghost Light]]).

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	The BBC had only moderate success with selling colour stories to Africa in the late 1970s / early and late 1980s, with only [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe\|Rhodesia and Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]], [[Ghana]], [[Swaziland]], [[Seychelles]], and [[Sierra Leone]] picking up Jon Pertwee and/or Tom Baker episodes. Only [[Swaziland]] and [[Seychelles]] are known to have aired Peter Davison serials. Baker and/or Davison episodes apparently also aired in [[Botswana]] and [[Burkina Faso]], but no listings could be found.		The BBC had only moderate success with selling colour stories to Africa in the late 1970s / early and late 1980s, with only [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe\|Rhodesia and Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]], [[Ghana]], [[Swaziland]], [[Seychelles]], and [[Sierra Leone]] picking up Jon Pertwee and/or Tom Baker episodes. Only [[Swaziland]] and [[Seychelles]] are known to have aired Peter Davison serials. Baker and/or Davison episodes apparently also aired in [[Botswana]] and [[Burkina Faso]], but no listings could be found.
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		+	Satellite channels such as [[BBC Prime]] were available in parts of north Africa in the mid '''1990s'''.

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 * Africa was wiped out by the invading Daleks ([[The Dalek Invasion of Earth]]).
 *Birds from Africa were on board [[The Ark]].
 * There was an Ioniser Base in South Africa. Refugees were being sent to African Rehabilitation Centres ([[The Ice Warriors]]).
 * Scorby served as a mercenary in Africa and the Middle East ([[The Seeds of Doom]]).

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	[[Ethiopia]] was the final English-speaking African country to purchase any William Hartnell stories in the 1970s.		[[Ethiopia]] was the final English-speaking African country to purchase any William Hartnell stories in the 1970s.

−	The BBC had only moderate success with selling colour stories to Africa in the late 1970s / early and late 1980s, with only [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe\|Rhodesia and Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]], [[Ghana]], [[Swaziland]], [[Seychelles]], and [[Sierra Leone]] picking up Jon Pertwee and/or Tom Baker episodes. Only [[Swaziland]] and [[Seychelles]] are known to have aired Peter Davison serials.	+	The BBC had only moderate success with selling colour stories to Africa in the late 1970s / early and late 1980s, with only [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe\|Rhodesia and Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]], [[Ghana]], [[Swaziland]], [[Seychelles]], and [[Sierra Leone]] picking up Jon Pertwee and/or Tom Baker episodes. Only [[Swaziland]] and [[Seychelles]] are known to have aired Peter Davison serials. Baker and/or Davison episodes apparently also aired in [[Botswana]] and [[Burkina Faso]], but no listings could be found.

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	[[Ethiopia]] was the final English-speaking African country to purchase any William Hartnell stories in the 1970s.		[[Ethiopia]] was the final English-speaking African country to purchase any William Hartnell stories in the 1970s.

−	The BBC had only moderate success with selling colour stories to Africa in the late 1970s / early and late 1980s, with only [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe\|Rhodesia and Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]], [[Ghana]], [[Swaziland]], [[Seychelles]], and [[Sierra Leone]] picking up Jon Pertwee and/or Tom Baker episodes.	+	The BBC had only moderate success with selling colour stories to Africa in the late 1970s / early and late 1980s, with only [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe\|Rhodesia and Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]], [[Ghana]], [[Swaziland]], [[Seychelles]], and [[Sierra Leone]] picking up Jon Pertwee and/or Tom Baker episodes. Only [[Swaziland]] and [[Seychelles]] are known to have aired Peter Davison serials.

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	The last ever sale of Hartnell stories was to [[Algeria]], in North Africa.		The last ever sale of Hartnell stories was to [[Algeria]], in North Africa.

−	The BBC had only moderate success with selling colour stories to Africa in the late 1970s / early 1980s, with only ~~mainland countries~~ [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe\|Rhodesia and Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]] , [[Ghana]] and [[Sierra Leone]] picking up ~~colour~~ episodes.	+	The BBC had only moderate success with selling colour stories to Africa in the late 1970s / early and late 1980s, with only [[Rhodesia / Zimbabwe\|Rhodesia and Zimbabwe]], [[Nigeria]], [[Ghana]], [[Swaziland]], [[Seychelles]], and [[Sierra Leone]] picking up Jon Pertwee and/or Tom Baker episodes.