'Africa, The Voyage Of Discovery: Different But Equal'

In Dr. Basil Davidson’s video documentary, “Africa, The Voyage of Discovery: Different but Equal”, he exhibits a unique perspective of African society, and characterizes African people as independent and proud individuals who are “equal in dignity and human worth” (Basil Davidson’s) as other societies. He also believes that African societies were a once succeeding society with hard working individuals and incredible architectures. He states that leaders in Africa lived like kings and people enjoyed their lives. He also expresses that Africa has its own profound history, unlike those explorers like Samuel Baker and Richard, including other white men who found themselves superior to Africans throughout history. They all found African individuals are sample and savage from their own interpretation. Includes other thoughts that African people are uneducated and cruel. Thus, through a series of facts and histories, this video documentary successfully demonstrates that African individuals and histories are equal to American people and histories.

In this video documentary, he states that he sees the continent as flourishing, powerful and holy. Then Davidson describes in details that the African coast “was the scene of cruelty” in a slavery state run by the white men for over 300 years. Years after that, people in africa “were dragged from their homes into white men’s world of misery and degradation” quoted from Davidson. And they were not treated as much as human beings, they were violated whenever the white men needed to. Furthermore, Davidson takes us to a tour of the lovely and beautiful places and scenes of Africa in order to display that how the center of African spirits obliterated in the slave exchange and the common respect shared between the African world and western