to conclude: A REVOLUTION IS THE ONLY WAY FORWARD IN RECLAIMING OUR RIGHTS; WE DON’T WANT VIOLENCE THOUGH. Freedom and justice, as a man you’d know that they are not given to you, but you have to take it from whoever denies it for you.
And this revolution “WILL” be televised!!!

I stand to be corrected… VIVA!!!

Africa is a very large and diverse region. There are variuos types of cultures in Africa and there are various types of people. Still, whenever Africa is discussed in the media, WHETHER IT IS IN THE US, JAPAN, CHINA OR EUROPE– the impression given to viewers about African culture is PRIMARILY THE TRIBAL CULTURE THAT IS ONLY ONE PART OF AFRICAN CULTURE.

In like manner, any movies or documentaries dealing with African hisory emphasizes the tribal cultures and not the high cultures.

Yet, before there was colonial conflict in Soutern Africa in which the Nguni and other Southern BaNtu people were involved in struggle with the Europeans 1500′s to 1900′s ( the Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, Vendas and other cattle-keeping people), the very large, powerful and organized agricultural-trade and manufacturing states of West Africa, the Swahili region, Zimbabwe, Congo-Angola, Khemet, Cush, Ethiopia — all existed and all had high and advanced levels of civilization, military organization, state systems and a great and global system of trade and commerce.

Not a single movie, documentary or historical/docudrama about these ancient African cultures can be found anywhere, except in some films that come from West Africa — albeit very few.

When was the last time anyone saw a film about the very classical and sophisticated urban civilization of Benin where the world’s longest city walls and moats were built between the 1st century to the 8 century?

When was the last time anyone saw a film about Benin’s Amazon warriors (Dahomey) with their coats of mail and coral armor, their unique weapons and their martial arts systems?

Where are the films about the KINGSHIP SYSTEM IN AFRICA (which is sometimes portrayed by Nigerian filmmakers, who produce the largest number of films after the US and India)

Where are the films about the journy of Meci to the Americas in the year 3113 BC with a flotilla of 12 ships, African sailors and their families and provisions, (says the Quiche Maya book, ‘Popul Vuh,” ( see “A History of the African-Olmecs,” http://www.authorhouse.com/BookStore/ItemDetail~bookid~7283.aspx )

http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com/blackmalepower-about62.html

http://blackmalepowermovement.forumsland.com

http://africanamericasworldnetworks.blogspot.com

http://premiumvideos.onlinenigeria.com

http://vidwo.onlinenigeria.com

http://www.africanmoviechannel.tv/index.asp

One of the great industries on this planet is FILM-MAKING AND MOVIE PRODUCTION. Black America and Africans should and must organize to learn from each other, revive their lost history and create films about that history that has been lost. It is from films that show the lost glory of Africans that we learn to understand who we are.

For example, a culture that existed in the Sahara about 15,000
BC spread to West Africa and to the Americas. The remnants of that culture also spread to Central and Southern Africa, Egypt, the Mediterranean, South Arabia, India, Southern China
and elsewhere.

Yet, no movies, no documentaries and very little has been written about this great global civilization (called the ‘Ethiopian Empire,” by the ancient Greeks that existed in ancient times (except what has been written by some scholars and writers, such as ‘Susu Economics,” and ‘A History of the African-Olmecs,” http://www.authorhouse.com

Finally, all appreciation is due to the filmmaker, but we must represent African culture and history at various levels — not only the stereotypical ‘tribal’ culture that most people have been shown.

http://pureblackafriam.blogspot.com

http://www.cwo.com/~lucumi/runoko.html

To read more about this and the struggle for human rights in Swaziland, visit my blog at http://www.swazimedia.blogspot.com