The Eurocentric concept of the “Dark Ages” has often obscured the rich, diverse, and sophisticated developments in Africa.

In his new six-hour series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a ...

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Cheikh Anta Diop, taken from The African Origin of Civilisation. In his two major works Nations Negres et Culture and Anteriorite des Civilizations Negres he profoundly influenced thinking about ...

So you can go through that and kind of get a journey through ancient Africa civilization all the way up until present day. We have a community day in celebration of our anniversary, so that ...

For decades, the most prominent homes for African art were within museums in Europe. That has changed, especially with the December opening of Senegal’s Museum of Black Civilizations ...

A breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African continent, of art, writing and civilization itself, through the millennia in ...