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History of Africa

Gift of The Nile

Duration: 50 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS EuropeLatest broadcast: on BBC WORLD NEWS North America

Zeinab Badawi's quest to uncover the history of Africa takes her to Egypt, where she explores the most famous civilisation on the continent - the ancient Egyptians. Zeinab goes beyond the usual analysis of the pharaohs and asks, who were the ancient Egyptians? What was their ethnicity? What made such a great civilisation possible? How did they order their society, and what were their values? Show less

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