Not really anything to do with the question (it's a Conrad thread so what the hell) but I notice he uses the term "afro celt". This has puzzled me since I heard it in Show of Hands' "Roots" -

"When the Indians, Asians, Afro-Celts
It's in their blood, below their belt
They're playing and dancing all night long
So what have they got right that we've got wrong?"

I am well aware that there is a group called the Afro Celt Sound System. In their own words -

"Afro Celt Sound System was formed in 1995 as a collaborative effort between traditional African and Celtic musicians and several respected figures from the UK music scene."

They hardly constitue a cultural group in the same way as Indians or Asians (who are hardly monolithic cultural groups anyway).

A little research shows that there is, indeed, an Afro-Celt culture. It has its origins in North Carolina with a fusion between Scottish emmigrants from the Highland clearances and their African slaves in the eighteenth century.

If you want to know more there's an article and a
radio broadcast.

All very interesting but a little obscure. Do we really hear lots of them on the BBC? Have they got right what we've got wrong?