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01/07/2017 GMT

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Zeinab Badawi examines the origins of humankind and how and why it evolved in Africa.

In this first episode Zeinab Badawi travels across the continent, examining the origins of humankind and how and why it evolved in Africa.

Zeinab Badawi delves into the history of Africa for a brand new, eight-part series on BBC World News. In this first episode Zeinab Badawi travels across the continent, examining the origins of humankind and how and why it evolved in Africa. During her journey Zeinab is granted rare access to the genuine bones of one of the most iconic discoveries in the field of archaeology: Lucy in Ethiopia, the oldest hominin ever discovered. Zeinab also spends time with a unique tribe in Tanzania, who provide insight into how we have lived, for most of our history, as hunter-gatherers. She also looks at what distinguishes us from the animal world and makes us human.

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History Of Africa: Cattle, Crops and Iron

Zeinab Badawi delves into the history of Africa for a brand new, eight-part series.

Zeinab Badawi delves into the history of Africa for a brand new, eight-part series on BBC World News.

Zeinab Badawi delves into the history of Africa for a brand new, eight-part series on BBC World News. The continent of Africa has a long, complex history, and its people built civilizations which rivalled those which existed anywhere else in the world. However, much of the continent's history is not widely known, and the little that is known often projects a distorted, partial picture. Sudan-born Zeinab travels to all four corners of Africa, interviewing historians, archaeologists, and citizens whose stories paint a vivid picture of their continent's past and how it informs their present lives.

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