For someone who is one of the world’s foremost scholars on African peoples, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. is very easy to talk to. The “Finding Your Roots” host is one of America’s foremost ...

‘Africa’s Great Civilizations’: Henry Louis Gates on Why Understanding Africa’s History Is More Vital Than Ever Premiering tonight on PBS, the six-hour miniseries spans 200,000 years of ...

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. thought far too many people adhered to stereotypes when thinking of Africa.That led him to make “Africa’s Great Civilizations,” a six-part documentary ...

A British writer born in Bristol in 1914, BASIL DAVIDSON has recently finished his new book, THE REDISCOVERY OF AFRICA , which will be published by Atlantic-Little, Brown in the autumn.

I’m a sucker for a good, engaging, pretty history doc. It’s just who I am. But last month, I became absolutely spellbound by a six-part docu-series called Africa’s Great Civilizations.I ...

We know what the oldest civilizations in the world are thanks to archaeology, but there are many others we are only just discovering. Throughout human history, forgotten civilizations that shaped ...

In the 1970s, the Senegalese scholar pioneered a movement for the restoration of Egypt’s Black founders in world history. His 1974 study, The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality ...