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MOTHERLAND: is an epic and unprecedented entry into the canon of African-owned cinema, which charts the glory and majesty of the Motherland. |
Motherland is a film that calls for African unity, self-determination and the African rebirth. Motherland is the first complete Pan-African films ever made on Africa. ON DVD |
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ANOTHER ORPHAN CHILD FROM AFRICA: Southern Sudan | Africa has given birth to a new child, in the opposite direction to Pan-Africanism. And with the war in Libya these are dark days for unity. There is nothing to celebrate if Southern Sudan, via duress, has to separate itself from its Northern African neighbor. It only speaks to our inability to form constructive spheres around our common challenges as African people. |
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| So it is a muted victory for Southern Sudan who will now be targeted by Western agendas and imperialism because of the pressure from under-development. The vampires are already "helping" the new administration and we know their is no altruism in politics. Already we hear of false victories: "We are free to drink now Shariah is gone" , "we do not need to speak Arabic we can learn English" from an Arab slave master to a Western one. Independence YES, but independence to do what? Drink ourselves to death, is that what freedom is for? I don't want Amharic - I want Latin (Oromo). The West love it, pipelines through corrupt Kenya which has British interest is perfect for the UK. Southern Sudan is only another weak orphaned statelet to be victimized. Watch what happens with the oil (as this is what the West want). Brown (Arab) v Black (African) is just a tidy way for simple minds to understand a complex mess. For western designs, race is just convenient package for greedy pockets. Who wants to be bored with the reality of a South complicity in Europeanization and a North complicit in Arabization - too complex a story to fit in a CNN headline, too texty to fit in a tweet. |
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PETITION TO GET AFRICAN FILMS IN AFRICA: 500 Years Later for 4 years has been stuck with SABC in the negotiation process. SABC is trying everything to stall and delay the broadcasting of this film. Beyond excuses how is it possible for Motherland and 500 Years Later to have so much trouble being shown by African broadcasters in Africa? A film about African people with dignity is struggling for broadcast while all manner of Hollywood poison is shown daily. |
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| We believe only a public visible petition will get them to jump into gear and service the demands of empowering content which is critical for a people traumatized, marginalized and made to feel alienated. Media is a powerful tool, its function is part of the African story, not only to laugh and sing. But to express a deeper social story, of victory and trauma. this expression is at the heart of freedom and humanity. The ability to tell the African story with an African voice. Be part of change SIGN THE PETITION NOW |
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LIBYA AND WESTERN DESIGNS: Now that the civil war in Libya is not going the way of the West and friends they impose the illegal no-fly zone. In an age where colonialism was suppose to be taking a back seat how do you tell an independent nation what to do with its airspace? And how do you use the excuse inherent in any civil war to execute a Western design political outcome? |
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| Why no no-fly zone when 1000s were killed by Israel, why no hard stance for the ongoing horror caused by Israeli's violations and terrorism. Why does Bahrain and Yemen get a soft touch? Why so slow in oil-less Rwanda ? <more> |
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RACE IS REAL: The appreciation or relevance of Africaness is located in the face of a multi-racial world and the primary function of defining African identity is first and foremost an exercise in political self-interest and African agency.The power of definition must remain with the majority and today African is a term used to super-umbrella all the indigenous ethnicities of the African continent and their modern-day descendents in the Diaspora. |
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| Escaping race is clearly a luxury for those who have already ascended to become the dominant race-class, for everyone else, race-engagment is a consequence of that domination. <more> |
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AFRICAN CULTURE: We often hear rhetoric such as the original African spirituality of Africa. But which Africa is this? Is it Africa when Europeans wandered into villages in Benin? Or is it the Africa of Axsum, Kmt and Songhay? The treatment of Africa seems to imply a constant historical and cultural monolith that was at peace and pure before a certain set of invasions. |
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| How is the cultural shift from Ethiopia to Benin Homogeneity while the cultures from Ethiopia to Yemen 22Km away are heterogeneous ? Linguistics alone tell of a completely different historical relationship. <more> |
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FGM & FGC: The West perceives everything African through a narrow lens of misunderstanding and cultural supremacy. FGM is a word constructed for pure shock value, to shop for funds for yet another campaign into a continent still perceived as dark and backward. And while they pass judgment over African people the plastic surgeries of California are advertising a new service called "Designer Vaginas." |
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| So cutting is mutilation and barbaric in Africa, vogue and fashionable in Hollywood. However Female cutting, goes back as far as Ancient Egypt. And while harmful practises do go on we feel there has been an, as always, an overwhelming lack of balance debate. As long as there is choice and health safety in Female cutting then it is all culturally relative. There is a wide range of cutting practises which do not come near to mutilation that we need to discuss. Expert Fuambai Ahmadu shares a deeper insight on this issue.<more> |
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REVOLUTIONARY CHANGE: The methodologies of the 60's should be evolved to function in our globalized world. It can no longer be acceptable for another generation to have to come and re-invent the wheel of failure via antiquated models of working. In the high tide of globalization what are the roles for economic and cultural development at the macroeconomic level? |
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| Pan-Africanism is do or die but it needs tangible mutually beneficial partnerships, which create wealth, in is broadest sense, for all those involved, and hence creates incentives for a Pan-African ideology. All of this must slug through the issue of sincerity, efficiency and work ethos, and this needs mechanisms, which tease out the personalities, and egos that perpetuate failure.<more> |
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ISRAEL'S RACISM TO AFRICANS: Israel's treatment of Ethiopians "racist" Health officials in Israel are subjecting many female Ethiopian immigrants to a controversial long-term birth control drug in what Israeli women's groups allege is a racist policy to reduce the number of African babies. Ethiopians are reported to face widespread discrimination in jobs, housing and education and it recently emerged that their blood donations were routinely discarded. |
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| Some schools advertise "White only." "The unspoken policy is that only children who are white and Ashkenazi are wanted in Israel," she said, referring to the term for European Jews who founded Israel and continue to dominate its institutions. (READ NEW ARTICLE) |
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500 YEARS LATER: Ground breaking definitive multi-award winning documentary. Prehaps the best documentary ever on slavery. Filmed in over twenty countries and on five continents, 500 Years Later is a compelling journey that chronicles the struggle of a people from enslavement who continue to fight for the most essential human right - freedom.ON DVD |
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| ART OF REVOLUTION |
Bad liberation grammar has battles being fought that have no solution mechanism which reinforce existing work or foster constructive change. "We need to control our image" has already been established as a liberation necessity, the how becomes primary in the 21st century.  |
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| RACISM IN FEMINISM AGAINST HETROSEXUALS |
| Esther Stanford-Xosei, has brought a historic case She has alleged that her position was rendered untenable due to her: race and ethnicity; advocacy of African Feminism/s within a White-led organisation with an explicit value of Feminism; her heterosexuality; and heterosexist-racist assumptions about her faith. |
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| AFRICAN LEADERSHIP |
| Africa's biggest problem today is with the leadership. They are so removed from the people that they are looked upon as foreigners. They are driven by self-interest, so excessive that their peoples' interests are forgotten. |
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| THE AFRICAN RACE |
| The definition of an African is very simple; an African is a member/descendant of the indigenous ethnic groups found on the continent of Africa. |
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| MAAFA: AFRICAN HOLOCAUST |
| The Maafa reduced human beings to mere labor units. The legacy of Slavery would continue to shape and scar the world we know |
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| PAN-AFRICAN CINEMA |
| There is no denying the power of media; it has been the fundamental social marker of our century. It is becoming more than a tool for entertainment. But as an agent of Pan-Africanism... |
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| DARFUR: TRUTH REPORT |
| Finally, the conflict in Darfur has become a focal point in international diplomacy and media attention. Beyond bullets the biggest battle is the war of definitions. |
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| ETHIOPIA: THE JEWEL OF AFRICA |
| Of all Africa’s treasures Ethiopia is one of the brightest. From its rich history to its rich culture, Ethiopia is beyond argument one of Africa’s most precious gems. |
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| AFRICAN MARRIAGE RITUALS |
| The largest cultural ceremony in all of Africa is the wedding ceremony. African weddings are a family affair and involve the combining of two lives, two families. |
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| LINGUISTICS FOR AFRICA |
| Words play a critical role in articulating our reality. We must, find ways to control word usage when it speaks to our condition seeking words that serve our interest. |
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| ARAB SLAVE TRADE:SPECIAL |
| Arab enslavement of Africans predates the European trade. However the Arab slavery was rooted in greater cultural, historical and religious complexities. |
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| WILLIE LYNCH LETTERS |
| This speech was "allegedly" delivered by Willie Lynch. Lynch was a British enslaver in the West Indies. |
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| MENTAL SLAVERY |
| Dr. Kimani Nehusi explores: Physical chains have been broken but mental chains remain. The greatest battle of the new century, is the battle for the African mind. |
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| AFRICAN SLAVE REVOLT |
| Resistance, revolt, and eventual social transformation are born out of an oppressed peoples awareness of themselves. |
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| Education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. |
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Malcolm X |
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| "white" depends for its stability on its negation, "black." Neither exists without the other, and both come into being at the moment of imperial conquest. |
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Franz Fanon |
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| You can not measure an African success with a European ruler |
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Owen ' Alik Shahadah |
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