突破孤立隔绝、僵化不变的史学成见，Henry Louis Gates Jr.博士叙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 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.