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Title: WONDERS of the AFRICAN WORLD Post by: emmanuel on May 18, 2004, 03:01:56 PM http://www.pbs.org/wonders/index.html
(http://www.pbs.org/wonders/images/headers/t-main.jpg) (http://www.pbs.org/wonders/images/content/i_gates.jpg) Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Let's face it -- think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth? Join me on the journey from Zanzibar to Timbuktu, the Nile River Valley to Great Zimbabwe, the slave coast of Guinea to the medieval monasteries of Ethiopia in search of the lost wonders of the African world. Shall we begin? CHECK IT OUT...INFORMATIVE....VERY WELL PRESENTED |