The Africans: A Triple Heritage (1986)
- Genre
- documentary
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 1 season, 9 episodes
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
How it feels
Dr. Ali Mazrui narrates this documentary series about African history and culture. It examines how African traditions were shaped by outside influences.
educationalinformativereflectivemeasuredthoughtfulbroadauthoritative
What happens
The Africans: A Triple Heritage is a documentary history, written and narrated by Dr. Ali Mazrui in the early 1980s and jointly produced by the BBC and the Public Broadcasting Service (WETA, Washington) in association with the Nigerian Television Authority. A book by the same title was jointly published by BBC Publications and Little, Brown and Company. The film series premiered in 1986 on BBC and controversially on local PBS stations throughout the United States. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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