In the first episode of the second series of The History of Africa, Zeinab Badawi looks at the impact on Africa itself of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Show more

In this episode, Zeinab Badawi visits Ghana and sees how momentum in the trans Atlantic slave trade led to competition for enslaved Africans between European nations. Show more

Zeinab Badawi travels to South Africa and Zimbabwe and sees how southern Africans gradually came to grasp the destruction that would be inflicted upon them by white settlers. Show more

Zeinab Badawi travels to Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Congo in central Africa to bring the history of the great Kongo Empire. Show more

In the final episode Zeinab Badawi makes a huge and broad sweep across Africa examining the struggle for freedom. Show more