Premiering tonight on PBS, the six-hour miniseries spans 200,000 years of African history to challenge the myths about the continent For someone who is one of the world’s foremost scholars on African ...

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For so long the artistic history of an entire continent has largely been told by others or stowed away in faraway museums. As pressure mounts on museums outside Africa to return art and artifacts ...

Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. thought far too many people adhered to stereotypes when thinking of Africa. That led him to make “Africa’s Great Civilizations,” a six-part documentary that ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- To close out Black History Month, PBS presents the three-night, six-hour documentary, "Africa's Great Civilizations," which is written, produced and hosted by Dr. Henry Louis Gates ...

China’s transformation draws heavily on long-held principles—collective effort, social harmony, and a steady commitment to ...

The question of whether Western museums should return works of African art to their home countries is vexed and hotly debated. But the mega-collector Sindika Dokolo thinks there’s a simple question ...

Dec. 13 (UPI) --Forty-two pieces of African art covering five millennia will be on display starting Tuesday at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. "The African Origin of Civilization: ...

DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — The Museum of Black Civilizations in Senegal opened this month amid a global conversation about the ownership and legacy of African art. The West African nation’s culture ...