Africa's Great Civilizations


Africa's Great Civilizations is a PBS six-hour television series hosted and written by Henry Louis Gates Jr. It aired on PBS in the United States in February 2017.
In the series, Gates chronicles African history starting with the birth of humankind to the start of the 20th century. The show portrays 200,000 years of Africa's history and touches on subjects from the arts to writing and the dawn of civilization to the 21st century.
The series' six episodes are:
  1. "Origins"
  2. "The Cross and the Crescent"
  3. "Empires of Gold"
  4. "Cities"
  5. "The Atlantic Age"
  6. "Commerce and the Clash of Civilizations"
On April 26, 2017, Gates introduced the series at the United Nations. The event was spearheaded by the Africa America Institute. The series was released on both Blu-ray and DVD on May 16, 2017.