Wonders of the African World(1999)
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First Air Date: 1999-10-25
Average Runtime: 5h 19m
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Seasons: 1
Episodes: 6
Africa is a continent of magnificent treasures and cultures — from the breathtaking stone architecture of 1,000-year-old ruins in South Africa to an advanced 16th century international university in Timbuktu. However, for centuries, many of these African wonders have been hidden from the world, lost to the ravages of time, nature and repressive governments. Join Harvard professor, Henry Louis Gates, on the journey from Zanzibar to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great Zimbabwe, the slave coast of Guinea to the medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search of the lost wonders of the African world.
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Seasons & Episodes
Season 1
Episodes: 6E01
Black Kingdoms of the Nile
Air Date: 1999-10-25
The term "Nubia" means many things to many people. In America it has come to be virtually synonymous with blackness a...
E02
The Swahili Coast
Air Date: 1999-10-25
The Swahili Coast, an 1,800-mile stretch of Kenyan and Tanzanian coastline, has been the site of cultural and commerc...
E03
The Slave Kingdoms
Air Date: 1999-10-26
Historically, West Africa is associated with the slave, gold and ivory trades, perhaps most often the former. West Af...
E04
The Holy Land
Air Date: 1999-10-26
For over 3,000 years Ethiopia has been a land of mystery and fascination. The Greek poet Homer thought that the Ethio...
E05
The Road to Timbuktu
Air Date: 1999-10-27
It is perhaps surprising that a place as comparatively close to Europe as West Africa should remain more or less unkn...
E06
Lost Cities of the South
Air Date: 1999-10-27
When European settlers discovered ruins of great civilizations at Mapungubwe in South Africa and Great Zimbabwe in Zi...
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