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The African experience [videorecording] : from "Lucy" to Mandela / Kenneth P. Vickery.

Vickery, Kenneth Powers. (Author). Teaching Company. (Added Author).

Summary:

This course of 36 lectures provides a general introduction to Africa south of the Sahara Desert and to its history.

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]

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.
Subject:
Africa, Sub-Saharan > Civilization.
Africa, Sub-Saharan > History.
Genre:
Educational films.
Lectures.
Nonfiction films.
Video recordings.

Available copies

  • 6 of 6 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 3 of 3 copies available at McDowell County Public Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 6 total copies.
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Old Fort Branch Library DVD 960 AFR P1 (Text) 37810435666382 Adult Video Nonfiction Available -
Old Fort Branch Library DVD 960 AFR P2 (Text) 37810435666390 Adult Video Available -
Old Fort Branch Library DVD 960 AFR P3 (Text) 37810435666408 Adult Video Available -

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