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History of Africa: Gift of The Nile

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History Of Africa: Gift of the Nile

15/07/2017 GMT

Gift of The Nile

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Zeinab Badawi's quest to uncover the history of Africa takes her to Egypt.

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 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?

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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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