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Episode six - the rise of Christianity in Egypt and powerful Christian states in Axum and Nubia. When Europeans arrived in Africa they claimed they were bringing Christianity to a benighted continent. But Christianity had arrived in Africa nearly two thousand years earlier. "The ancient Egyptians were no strangers to the teachings of Christianity. Pharaoh Akhenaton taught there was one creator of the universe...and there is the sign of the cross, the Ankh which is the sign of life after death." Professor Faoud Mgeli, Alexandria University. Presented by Hugh Quarshie.