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2 Ancient African Civilisation in the Sahara

www.youtube.com Historian Basil Davidson looks at ancient rock paintings in Zimbabwe of civilised black-skinned African peoples. "The evidence of these paintings suggests a continuous community of peoples, lving right across the Saharah from the Atlantic to the valley of the Nile." As the Sahara was overtaken by desert around 2000 BCE, these peoples moved southwards and eastwards. www.lincoln.edu

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