History Of Africa
2 Seasons • 20 Episodes
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9 Episodes
Mother Africa
Season 1 • Episode 1 • 44m • G
In this first episode, Zeinab travels across Africa examining the origins of humankind. During her journey she is granted access to the actual bones of one of the most iconic discoveries in the field of paleontology, 'Lucy'.
Cattle, Crops and Iron
Season 1 • Episode 2 • 45m • G
Zeinab Badawi continues her journey through the history of human development traveling to meet the Maasai of East Africa. They help explain how human beings began to domesticate animals and become pastoralists.
Gift of the Nile
Season 1 • Episode 3 • 45m • G
Zeinab Badawi's quest to uncover the history of Africa takes her to Egypt where she explores the most ancient civilization on the continent, and takes you beyond the usual coverage and examines the question of who the ancient Egyptians actually were.
The Kingdom of Kush
Season 1 • Episode 4 • 44m • G
In this episode Zeinab Badawi travels to the country of her birth and the very region of her ancestors and mothers: northern Sudan where she sheds light on this little-known aspect of ancient African history: the great Kingdom of Kush.
The Rise of Aksum
Season 1 • Episode 5 • 44m • G
Zeinab Badawi travels to the rarely visited country of Eritrea and neighboring Ethiopia to chart the rise of the kingdom of Aksum and examines archaeological remains in both countries dating back many hundreds of years.
Kings and Emirs
Season 1 • Episode 6 • 45m • G
In this episode Zeinab Badawi focuses on the fall of the kingdom of Aksum and how the Christian kings who followed in the wake of its demise left powerful legacies, especially that of King Lalibela who ruled in the 12/13th century
North Africa
Season 1 • Episode 7 • 45m • G
In this episode Zeinab Badawi's exploration of Africans' rich history focuses on North Africa. She goes to Morocco to find out about the original inhabitants of the region in particular the Berbers or Amazigh as they prefer to be called.
Ancestors, spirits and God
Season 1 • Episode 8 • 45m • G
In this episode, Zeinab Badawi examines religion in Africa and the presence of Africa's indigenous religions, to which millions of people on the continent still adhere. In Senegal she meets a man who blends Islamic beliefs with his ancestral ones.
Islam in Africa
Season 1 • Episode 9 • 44m • G
In this episode, Zeinab Badawi travels to several countries and looks at the early spread of Islam in Africa. She shows how not only Islam, but how Arab culture came to influence a large part of the continent, particularly in the north.
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Desert Empires
Season 2 • Episode 1 • 45m • G
In this episode Zeinab Badawi visits rarely seen historic sites and ruins in Mali and Mauritania. Under armed guard, Zeinab visits the fabled city of Timbuktu, which was overrun by extremists in 2012.
City States and Civilizations
Season 2 • Episode 2 • 44m • G
Zeinab Badawi travels to Nigeria where she is granted arare interview with the King of the Benin kingdom in Nigeria. She meets the Queen Mother of Lagos, at her ancestral palace on Lagos Island where she relates the history of the Yoruba people.
Coast and Conquest
Season 2 • Episode 3 • 44m • G
In this episode Zeinab Badawi visits the coastal settlements of Kenya, Tanzania, and Mozambique on the Indian Ocean coast. Zeinab then recounts the history of how the arrival of the Arabs marked the start of trade of enslaved Africans.
Southern Kingdoms
Season 2 • Episode 4 • 44m • G
In this episode, Zeinab Badawi travels to South Africa, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, and Zambia to find out about the powerful kingdoms of southern Africa and their rulers from the 10th to 19th century.
The Golden Stool
Season 2 • Episode 5 • 44m • G
In this episode, join Zeinab as she travels to Ghana and Cote D'Ivoire to find out about the history of the Asante people and the great queen who led the resistance against the British and concealed the Asante's most valued possession: the Golden Stool.
No Longer at Ease
Season 2 • Episode 6 • 45m • G
In this episode, Zeinab Badawi provides an overview of how Africans lived before the arrival of Europeans. The title describes people who were 'no longer at ease' in the run up to one of the ugliest chapters in history: the transAtlantic slave trade.
Slavery and Suffering
Season 2 • Episode 7 • 45m • G
Much is known about enslaved Africans once they arrived in the Americas and Europe, but in this episode Zeinab looks at the impact on Africa itself. She travels to several countries to see how, where, and why this trade began in Cabo Verde in 1510.
Slavery and Salvation
Season 2 • Episode 8 • 44m • G
In this episode, Zeinab Badawi visits Ghana and sees how momentum in the transAtlantic slave trade led to competition for enslaved Africans between European nations who built numerous slave forts along West Africa's Atlantic coast.
Diamonds, Gold and Greed
Season 2 • Episode 9 • 45m • G
Zeinab Badawi travels to Southern Africa and see how the south africans came to grasp the destruction that would be inflicted upon them by white settlers. We hear about the story of Shaka Zulu and how he helped reshape the map of southern Africa.
Kongo and the scramble for Africa
Season 2 • Episode 10 • 44m • G
In this episode Zeinab travels to Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Congo to bring the history of the great Kongo Empire to light . A 99 year old woman relates her memory of Belgian rule during what became known as the 'Scramble for Africa'.
Resistance and Liberation
Season 2 • Episode 11 • 45m • G
Host Zeinab Badawi examines the struggle for freedom. She talks about that time of independence with the families of three of Africa's best known independence leaders: Kwame Nkrumah,Patrice Lumuba and Leopold Senghor, as well as the son of Fela Kuti.