African art and history

  CONTINUED: BEK OUTSIDE Jumps over to the NEXT WINDOW, opening into a HALLWAY. He speaks furtively with Zaya as she leaves Urshu’s office... BEK this is the last day you’ll be forced to serve him. (beat) I’m buying you from that bastard. ZAYA with what? BEK At the festival, there’ll be tons of tribute for the king. The idea is beyond comprehension to her. ZAYA You plan to rob a god? In his palace? Set can kill you with a touch. BEK He also has a lot of money. ZAYA you’ve never tried anything like that before. BEK You doesn’t know what I’ve tried. ZAYA (grips her Horus figurine) Have faith. Bek dismissively waves away the wishful thinking. BEK Even if Horus comes and puts a spear through Set’s skull -- then what? In Egypt you’re either rich, poor... (off the slaves outside) ...or nothing. Zaya doesn’t have a response. It’s the hard truth. BEK I choose rich. Bek gives Zaya a last kiss and LEAPS OFF THE WINDOW LEDGE. BACK IN URSHU’S OFFICE As the Overseers summarizes the day’s p...

  The philosophy symbolized by the mythical Sankofa bird of the Akan tribe in Ghana is that you need to know where you come from in order to know where you are going. The bird flies resolutely forward while casting its head back regularly. In Africa, colonization  was accompanied by the erasure of history. Part of renewal, of renaissance is to once again connect to that history. In this Africa Month edition of The Journalist, we build on the efforts to achieve that. History has bequeathed Africa an unequal and inferior status. The characterization of Africa as a dark continent that required civilization was integral to the process of colonization. This mythology was vigorously advanced by the colonizer and even internalized by the colonized. Western historians advanced the notion of Africa as a place with a scant history and very little or no achievements. In the post-colonial period efforts have been made to address this historical injustice. In this Africa Month, it is ...

I grow tired of the outrage that we express about how Europeans have lied to us about our history. It shows to me a fierce determination to remain victims.    I mean, whose job is it for us to know our history and tell our stories? Surely you don't expect the same people who enslaved and colonized us to tell us our history? Are we that naive? And if they do they are going to tell it from their perspective. That is the nature of the beast.    This is 2021 and it is our job to tell our own and teach our own. That means that we are accountable and only we. You know the African proverb, "Until the lion has an historian the hunter will always be a hero." We know that we have been abused.    We know that we have suffered. I get it. But I also get that we are more than capable of researching our history. We are not helpless. And we are not babies.     So if your major contribution is to cry and whine about how "they did not tell us the tr...

DNA shows that we “the people” were everywhere first!! Not just going from status but with bodies and artifacts. Tools, clothing… I’m not saying that everyone is right but there is more truth then myth. That's not exactly how it works. While humanity came from us, we were moving around for thousands upon thousands of years in different climates. In those climates we changed. We no longer looked like ourselves over thousands of years. It would basically be like saying that all humans today are black.. Which technically is true.. But we don't see that that way at all. ALL lands, waters and stars in the heavens are named for BLACK ancestors. Whites practice black science, religion, astrology, speak native languages etc. The acceptance of the whites in Europe caused us to be minority in those lands. Because they spread diseases that we had no immunity too. The Original gods of Europe are ÆTHIOPIAN Zeus(Father)= RA(creator) and his son Apollo! as surviving Europeans ...

Meet king cetshwayo a zulu king who defeated the whites in the war against the British when the whites tried to take over the Zulu-land king cetshwayo fought with bravery with his men and they defeated the white who were using guns while the zulus only had spears and shields, the British army fled away after a defeat, king "cetshwayo ka jama" carried on the mission of king shaka zulu of trying to reunite Africa by bringing all the tribes together but this couldn't be archived because many tribes wouldn't want to join without a war. While king cetshwayo sent his best warrior's to try and bring swazi people to the Zulu's, few of the british man were spying on the Zulu's and they saw a time to strike when the tribe wasn't heavily guided so the ambushed the Zulus and defeated them the second time. The british army took king Cetshwayo ka Mpande to Britain to meet the queen, it is said that cetshwayo before he was captured he used traditional herbs mixed ...

  The tricky part about teaching Afrakan liberation, is that your relentless adversaries trying to destroy your scholarship will not be from other races, but your own. This is why your greatest rival as Ausar is not of a different race, but your own brother Setekh whose mission is to kill you and your productivity (symbolized as your son Heru, the hero). Sometimes Setekh will be from obvious Eurocentric Blacks, but often it will come from within the camp via agents masked as Afrocentric scholars. They will spend all of their energy trying to debunk whatever teachings an Afrakan scholar presents. Sometimes, they are not even conscious that they are agents; they just suffer from the Crabs-in-a-barrel syndrome that causes them to obsess with attacking Blacks who are getting out of the barrel. Often they will argue with you simply because your following is larger and they are trying to steal some of your steam. Sometimes they've even published books and feels that makes them "a...