Africa's Great Civilizations is a PBS six-hour television series hosted and written by Henry Louis Gates Jr.[1][2] It aired on PBS in the United States from February 27, 2017 to March 1, 2017.

The show portrays 200,000 years of Africa's history and touches on subjects from the arts to writing and the dawn of civilization to the 21st century.

[4] On April 26, 2017, Gates introduced the series at the United Nations.

[5] The New York Times praised the series, but said it would have been good if it made more connections between the civilizations of the past and modern Africa.

[6] Multifaith website Spirituality & Practice called the series "ambitious and poignant;"[7] while the UK Independent called it "Endlessly enthralling and tremendously dramatic.