突破孤立隔絕、僵化不變的史學成見，Henry Louis Gates Jr.博士講述從人類誕生到二十世紀，二十萬年來非洲的文明進化。
　　In his six-hour 3 part 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 continent, of art, 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.