Record details

• Physical Description: 6 videodiscs (18 hours) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 3 course guidebooks (22 cm).
• Publisher: Chantilly, VA : Teaching Company, [2006]
• Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Part 1. Finding the "Lost Continent" ; Africa's many natural environments ; A virtual tour of the great land ; Cradle of humankind ; Crops, cattle, iron: taming a continent ; Kinship and community: societies take shape ; Like nothing else: the ancient Nile valley ; Soul and spirit: religion in Africa ; Ethiopia: outpost of Christianity ; West Africa's "Golden Age" ; Swahili commercial world ; Great Zimbabwe and the cities of the south -- Part 2. Atlantic slave trade: the scope ; Atlantic slave trade: the impact ; South Africa: the Dutch Cape colony ; South Africa: the Zulu kingdom ; South Africa: the frontier and unification ; South Africa: diamonds and gold ; Prelude to the "scramble for Africa" ; European conquest and African resistance ; Colonial Africa: new realities ; Colonial Africa: comparisons and change ; Lion awakens: the rise of nationalism ; Peaceful paths to independence -- Part 3. Congo: promise and pain ; Segregation to apartheid in South Africa ; Armed struggles for independence ; First taste of freedom ; Taste turns sour ; World turns down: the "permanent crisis" ; A new dawn? The democratic revival ; South African miracle ; Unthinkable: the Rwanda genocide ; New plague: HIV/AIDS in Africa ; Zimbabwe: background to contemporary crisis ; Africa found.

Participant or Performer Note:

Lectures delivered by Professor Kenneth P. Vickery, North Carolina State University.

System Details Note:

DVD.

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Subject:

Africa, Sub-Saharan > Civilization.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > History.

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