Sites and artifacts are revealing clues to the continent’s recent history. An archaeologist explains the findings and threats ...

This series is available to stream on demand with KPBS Passport. AFRICA’S GREAT CIVILIZATIONS is a three-part, six-hour documentary series hosted, executive produced and written by Henry Louis ...

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 ...

Did you know that afro combs were used in ancient African civilizations? Did you know that afro combs were used in ancient African civilizations? Burial pits in the Nile Valley have been the ...

‘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 ...

Forty-two pieces of African art covering five millennia will be on display starting Tuesday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in "The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or ...

It feels like “Africa’s Great Civilizations” is trying to counter this. I lecture public schools around the country.

A quarter of all slaves who crossed the Atlantic started from what is today Angola.

DAKAR, Senegal — The Museum of Black Civilizations in Senegal opened this month amid a global conversation about the ownership and legacy of African art. The West African nation’s culture ...

In part, that’s because African individuals did not cram together as closely as they did in more well-known cradles of civilization. So it’s less likely that modern archaeologists will ...