Lost Kingdoms Of Africa

[findlayhibby]

Just seen the latest episode of this fascinating series,looking at the lostkingdoms of Zinbabwe.The good thing about this program is that it blows apart the old notion that was perpetrated by our western empires that Africa was a darklands populated by uncivilised backwards savages,one look at the architecture and artifacts to be found,that some parts of Africa had civilisations,which could compete with,Egypt,Azteca,Babylon,or ancient Greece.That fact was buried by ourr imperialist fore fathers who saw Africa as a place to plunder to furthertheir own empires-some things never change.:coffee:

 

[Wolfetone Hibee]

I was hoping there'd be an episode about The Sudan and its 4000 years of civilisation.:sadwalk:

 

[findlayhibby]

As far as i know this is only episode 2 the one on ethiopea last week was great too.:coffee:

 

[Wolfetone Hibee]

As far as i know this is only episode 2 the one on ethiopea last week was great too.:coffee:

There was one about Nubia and one about West Africa a few weeks ago too they must be repeats man, they were on BBC4

 

[findlayhibby]

Ta Hail! i'll look out for them.

 

[Wolfetone Hibee]

Ta Hail! i'll look out for them.

I just googled it bud there are 4 in total, pity, I could watch African history documentaries all day.

 

[egb_hibs]

Just seen the latest episode of this fascinating series,looking at the lostkingdoms of Zinbabwe.The good thing about this program is that it blows apart the old notion that was perpetrated by our western empires that Africa was a darklands populated by uncivilised backwards savages,one look at the architecture and artifacts to be found,that some parts of Africa had civilisations,which could compete with,Egypt,Azteca,Babylon,or ancient Greece.That fact was buried by ourr imperialist fore fathers who saw Africa as a place to plunder to furthertheir own empires-some things never change.:coffee:

interesting. what channel is this on?

PS not quite sure about your politicised view of this; lot of colonialists did after all spend a lot of time and effort looking for the treasures of mythical african civlisations.

my impression of what civilisations there were is that they were the product of islamic colonialism. is this dispelled in the programmes?

 

[Wolfetone Hibee]

interesting. what channel is this on?

PS not quite sure about your politicised view of this; lot of colonialists did after all spend a lot of time and effort looking for the treasures of mythical african civlisations.

my impression of what civilisations there were is that they were the product of islamic colonialism. is this dispelled in the programmes?

BBC2 on sundays, it was on bbc4 before. It's on the iplayer, I think, and will probably appear on discovery later, still in a 1 hour slot, but with 20 minutes of adverts and thus loads cut out, as usual.