Buranda
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Buranda is a fictional West African developing country (or LDC (less developed country) at the time of filming) that features in the second episode of Yes Minister ("The Official Visit") and (briefly) Yes, Prime Minister ("A Conflict of Interest"). It is also referred to privately by James Hacker as a "TPLAC" (Tin-pot little African country), much to Sir Humphrey's consternation.
Formerly known as British Equatorial Africa, Buranda occupies the area where Equatorial Guinea exists in real life, although a map in Jonathan Lynn and Antony Jay's book The Complete Yes Minister mistakenly puts its location in what is Ghana in the real world.
Buranda's leader in Yes Minister is Colonel Selim Mohammed, or Charlie Umtali, as he is known to James Hacker and other contemporaneous alumni of the London School of Economics.
[edit] See also
Characters: James Hacker • Humphrey Appleby • Bernard Woolley
Cast: Paul Eddington • Nigel Hawthorne • Derek Fowlds • Diana Hoddinott • John Nettleton
Episodes: List of Yes Minister and Yes, Prime Minister episodes
Other: Hacker Ministry • Buranda • Qumran • St George's Island
