The Ancient and Medieval African Kingdoms: A Complete Overview

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The Ancient and Medieval African Kingdoms: A Complete Overview


The African Kingdoms goes over the BOTH the Ancient and Medieval periods of African history. It is meant to be an overview.

It begins with a general look at Africa’s different natural regions, before getting into Ancient Africa (the Nubians, kingdom of Axum, the smaller cultures in North and West Africa, and the Bantu migrations), and then…

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  1. That was a great attempt, given the lack of information and the present prejudice. The producers have my respect for that.

    Still, I would have liked to see more information on Tumbuktu and it's famous library. I would also have enjoyed more comments about the metallurgy in Nubia and in other places, because they make the case of civilizations capable of transforming raw materials into more complex products. Granted, you comment on brick production but I think the case for metallurgy is important.

    In any case, a noteworthy attempt to reflect on Africa's complex and heterogenous history; done with respect and honest appreciation.

  2. As a horn of African i noticed that all the African historians from western countries can never tell the longest African history from Eastern Africa i think it's just because the east of has always been out of European reach so they don't have enough knowledge written by them and they don't want to know the indigenous sources either so they will never tell you how the east African people expanded towards the Indian subcontinent and the Philippines also to malinisian Islands and Indonesia and Papua new Guinea

  3. North Africa is Arab countries and arab conversations Egypt is arab they speake Arabic and central and southern African the black people did not even have a written language before the Europeans came to Africa lived in mud huts and stick huts North Africa the arabs build

  4. Houses of the elite in Great Zimbabwe were not built with stone and cement, as the narrator points out. They were built with only stone. This is a great piece, though I feel that concerning Egypt there is still a fear of completely giving this civilization to black Africans. The blacks that ruled Egypt are not only the 25th dynasty but we now know that Narmer the 1st Pharoah was black as seen by the features of his head bust and that many subsequent pharaohs were indeed black. GREAT DOCUMENTARY.