TABLE OF CONTENTS

Overview

    Africa: A Voyage of Discovery with Basil Davidson is a critically acclaimed informative series describing the history of Africa. The eight-hour series was produced in 1984. it is broken up into eight sections on four videos. Each section is 57 minutes long. Basil Davidson uses various resources. Davidson usually speaks as location footage of Africa is shown. From time to time, he makes an appearance in the videos. Also shown are archived media and dramatic reconstructions. The eight sections are listed below with subsections that we have created from notes.

Outline

1. Different But Equal 
• Myths about Africa 
• The Green and Brown Saharas 
• Egypt 
• Nubia and Musovalat 
• the Nuba Hills 
• Christianity 
2. Mastering of a Continent 
• Introduction 
• the Pekot of Kenya 
• the Suka of Nigeria 
• the Dogos of Mali 
3. Caravans of Gold 
• Mali 
• Ashanti Empire and Niger River 
• Timbuktu and Burbon Nomads 
• Cairo 
4. The King and The City 
• Benin 
• Kano 
5. The Bible and the Gun 
• Racism and Slavery 
• Explorers 
• Missionaries 
• Training School 
• British Conquest 
6. The Magnificent African Cake 
• Scramble for Africa 
• Britain 
• France 
• Portugal 
• Beginning of Resistance 
7. The Rise of Nationalism 
• Gold Coast, Kenya, and Nigeria 
• Algeria 
• Congo and Mozambique 
• Rhodesia 
• South Africa 
8. The Legacy 
• Lagos, Nigeria 
• European Models of Government 
• War in Nigeria 
• Economic Troubles 
• Independent Mozambique 
• Concluding Remarks