突破孤立隔绝、僵化不变的史学成见，Henry Louis Gates Jr.博士讲述从人类诞生到二十世纪，二十万年来非洲的文明进化。
　　In his six-hour 3 p series, Africa's Great Civilizations, Henry Louis Gates, Jr. takes a new look at the history of Africa, from the birth of humankind to the dawn of the 20th century. This is a breathtaking and personal journey through two hundred thousand years of history, from the origins, on the African ntinent, of , writing and civilization itself, through the millennia in which Africa and Africans shaped not only shaped their own rich civilizations, but also the wider world.