[Music]
I’m a cultural activist
and my only focus is using this
terminology of motion-picture to tell
you African story I’m speaking on
changing the story the narratives is
same globally as far as Africa is
concerned negativity negativity are more
negativity right Africa like somebody
asked me are you sure is the same God
that created those other people that
created Africa why if you travel around
the world you are going to find that out
as far as the Europeans are concerned as
far as the Americans are concerned there
is one single narrative as far as Africa
is concerned and that is hunger
pestilence and diseases poverty bad
rules in fact trees are more trees and
monkeys over the years the African
stories have been told by foreigners who
most often there are no presents or
stories with uncut báez it encaustic
question what could be what would have
necessary at this act of single
narrative which often present Africans
as defeated species where you look at
foreign Millions Africans are presented
as poverty-stricken and admitting
continent the beauty of our heritage is
shredded in world seemed to me as what
conspiracy to undermine the potential of
the African continent these and many
more crucible part motivated me to make
in the movie invasion 1897 I’ve taught
myself as a filmmaker globally that I
will not die if the stories are not told
by me famously one was the invasion of
the great Empire
in the year 1897 before this movie was
made each time you go on Google and talk
about the Benning in 1887 just one story
you find the Benham Massacre the beanie
punitive expedition you know what is
punitive expedition a child has just
misbehave the Ferraris akhirin flog
nonsense out of the child but it was one
question I killed bored with me and that
question was hello bean in Misaka
beneath punitive expedition we added
event happen and all findings was to the
father
some white men came to say hello to us I
would kill them that is what you find on
the internet that is where the story
starts and end and I said no this
narrative cannot continue so I taught
myself three stories I must make one is
this true story on apologetically from
my point of view as a minimum so we went
in order to change this going back in
time getting documents even from their
own newspapers the hey this particular
event happened in velocity in my town
the white man where invaders so if there
was no invasion there would have been a
war what were the invaders wanted to
invade the inversion at 97 is an epic
best film
the vision of the Billie Kingdom by the
British Empire in 1897 and the looting
of the president ancient artifacts of
the beneath Kingdom is that clear off
there was an invasion and I went back in
time there was plotting they plotted
these guys are so rich before the advent
of the white men for this part of the
world if you go back in history you’ll
find that I believe was a very organized
place there was government in place the
roads were paved there were streetlights
he may not have been like this maybe
they have left us would have developed
these barrels hello
they said his street was paper written
by workmen in 60 ad some Dutchman came
to a city that was very organized
streetlights the roads were paved that
is why today all around the world this
city is thought to have the best road
network in the world were built by us by
these stories are never told you have to
set and set and set Google almost
crushing it before you can find some
particles of these stories so as a
filmmaker I said no we have to tell his
story and this was an example of
interactions before they came as far
back as the 14th century or by my
already a cicada great they already had
interactions would have white people sat
in an embassy in Portugal so he was in
knew these are facts that he Africans
needs to be embedded with so that you
are carefully to say honestly I’m not an
endangered species
I’ve been presented as was noted earlier
the motivation to change the narrative
of the African storytelling was born out
of the passion to correct a similarly
wrong presentation of the African
stories a typical example is the
deposition of the last
of Africa above ramen the popular
narrative has always been that the
invasion of beanie by economists as in
1897 is Admiral Sir Harry Rosen response
to the ambush of the previous
british-led party or the acting console
generation Phillip which had left orbit
two men dead roses troop captured burned
and looted Benin City bring it to an end
the West African kingdom of Benin as a
result most of the country’s stolen art
included believe bronze
we’re located to Great Britain and
several other places around the world so
when I made this Fame it became enough
front we have our own paths side of the
story
I’m not all having our own side of the
story it might be presented to them.2
here to see so I took this particular
production to the British Museum to be
screened of course it was not going to
be an easy fight they said his credit
report is very bad they are going to
screen every person is going to come
into the hall but to the glory of God we
were able to stake this movie our own
Vashem told them I was a missed audience
we did a dam today this is our own side
of the story which before now has never
be presented by anybody and they sat
when the movie started and our royal
majesty
then the Crown Prince came by himself as
a special guest to be in the hall it was
a night of glory where the story of the
African man is been taught by an African
directly in front of these guys that has
always taught the African story their
of course some white faces run out of
how bizarre how unthinkable how wicked
there are people way to us because we
went back in time in presenting
something led to the reason why they
came they are always Sai said this stuff
that they wanted here that he places in
rich please
they have Pepe and this craft was
so as fabric 200 years ago when you see
the architectural work of art here
you’ll be amazed the way the palaces
were beauty so we were not all together
dance has been presented always so the
movie in visual 1897 afforded me the
opportunity to read narrate our own
experience as Africans to change the
narrative of perpetually presenting
Africans from the negative point of view
where was the invasion these were
personal questions we needed to add
where was invasion why did invaders
leave their country what were they
looking for in my country so you see the
reverse that has happened today before
they used to come to look for us but
sadly they used to come to look for us
because there was something here that I
needed Don lope had developed tyre for
bicycle and the only place that where
houses the natural resources-we a tires
durometer can be found for them to
advance they are automobile starting
from bicycle wasn’t believed so they
came to the west african swamp where
they can get roba because this place
house is the best of it around the world
but today today
the reverse is the case because we have
been loaded with this narrative that we
a motto nothing we can give nothing
there’s not enough vailable that is why
today we are now wanted to go to that
side before they used to come to that
side what went wrong why did they target
punitive expedition let’s punish them
for what they did to us as simple as
that
let us punish them for what they did to
us did we commit any offense no you
cannot visit us now is he by force no I
don’t need your friendship now is it by
force
no my handshake is forbidden at this
point in time when I respect the way I
want to live my life there was a
disagreement but importantly that
narrative was here that event happened
here the motivation for them to leave
their home but we had it here as a
people organized well fed naturally if
you know what I mean welfare God
deposited everything we needed to have
as human beings right here in Ireland
and they needed just that that is why
they came you can answer that
well the good Papa did not live India
life peacefully before the British came
back came to desecrate Ireland weren’t
the Western storytellers implicating
that I read to those who came curse the
war stole artifact and place them in the
Amazon why are they not be condemned by
the Western media as we speak today why
is it that every time there is something
wrong always with the African man why is
it that at every point in time there is
something they want to teach us of
course I am NOT talk politics reason we
are vocation for where we are intro
for Torah and focusing there’s so much
within us that we have not tapped into
these informational questions give a
sort test in a month and has continued
to yen for answers in answer some of
them I had to take the bull bites on to
make envision 1897 infusing our own bias
and telling the story from the prism of
any man who feels that injustice has
been meted on us and no one is willing
to listen my argument here for is that a
beanie Kingdom didn’t travel to Britain
then one can interpret the British art
as genocide I presented my people as
fearless men and women who fought
gallantly with less sophisticated
ammunition and was able to stand the
Gunpowder power of the British intruders
we bows with arrows we match it idea for
presented an alternative dialectics
which is true of our people our rich
cultural learning was also shown to be
sacred and cannot be sacrificed on the
author of Western encroachment for very
serious political and religious reasons
who won’t go for them I am a Christian
don’t get me wrong I believe in true
globalization I believe in us as
changing what we have you take what I
have you give me what you have with
respects we had our rules we had our
ways the visitors coming should respect
like when we go now as yield Africans
what is a story that you want to tell of
yourself how do you want to present your
story as an African how do you want to
connect to other part of the world what
are the things that you don’t on the
internet as it concerns Africa these are
salient questions as young people we
need to answer
I feel the story of the African
origination the African life can be
represented to the world the more
beautiful thing you see about yourself
the more motivated you are the more
beautiful things you hear about yourself
the more energy that gets into you the
more beautiful thing you hear about your
environment the more energized you are to be part of the beauty bless you
I’m a cultural activist
and my only focus is using this
terminology of motion-picture to tell
you African story I’m speaking on
changing the story the narratives is
same globally as far as Africa is
concerned negativity negativity are more
negativity right Africa like somebody
asked me are you sure is the same God
that created those other people that
created Africa why if you travel around
the world you are going to find that out
as far as the Europeans are concerned as
far as the Americans are concerned there
is one single narrative as far as Africa
is concerned and that is hunger
pestilence and diseases poverty bad
rules in fact trees are more trees and
monkeys over the years the African
stories have been told by foreigners who
most often there are no presents or
stories with uncut báez it encaustic
question what could be what would have
necessary at this act of single
narrative which often present Africans
as defeated species where you look at
foreign Millions Africans are presented
as poverty-stricken and admitting
continent the beauty of our heritage is
shredded in world seemed to me as what
conspiracy to undermine the potential of
the African continent these and many
more crucible part motivated me to make
in the movie invasion 1897 I’ve taught
myself as a filmmaker globally that I
will not die if the stories are not told
by me famously one was the invasion of
the great Empire
in the year 1897 before this movie was
made each time you go on Google and talk
about the Benning in 1887 just one story
you find the Benham Massacre the beanie
punitive expedition you know what is
punitive expedition a child has just
misbehave the Ferraris akhirin flog
nonsense out of the child but it was one
question I killed bored with me and that
question was hello bean in Misaka
beneath punitive expedition we added
event happen and all findings was to the
father
some white men came to say hello to us I
would kill them that is what you find on
the internet that is where the story
starts and end and I said no this
narrative cannot continue so I taught
myself three stories I must make one is
this true story on apologetically from
my point of view as a minimum so we went
in order to change this going back in
time getting documents even from their
own newspapers the hey this particular
event happened in velocity in my town
the white man where invaders so if there
was no invasion there would have been a
war what were the invaders wanted to
invade the inversion at 97 is an epic
best film
the vision of the Billie Kingdom by the
British Empire in 1897 and the looting
of the president ancient artifacts of
the beneath Kingdom is that clear off
there was an invasion and I went back in
time there was plotting they plotted
these guys are so rich before the advent
of the white men for this part of the
world if you go back in history you’ll
find that I believe was a very organized
place there was government in place the
roads were paved there were streetlights
he may not have been like this maybe
they have left us would have developed
these barrels hello
they said his street was paper written
by workmen in 60 ad some Dutchman came
to a city that was very organized
streetlights the roads were paved that
is why today all around the world this
city is thought to have the best road
network in the world were built by us by
these stories are never told you have to
set and set and set Google almost
crushing it before you can find some
particles of these stories so as a
filmmaker I said no we have to tell his
story and this was an example of
interactions before they came as far
back as the 14th century or by my
already a cicada great they already had
interactions would have white people sat
in an embassy in Portugal so he was in
knew these are facts that he Africans
needs to be embedded with so that you
are carefully to say honestly I’m not an
endangered species
I’ve been presented as was noted earlier
the motivation to change the narrative
of the African storytelling was born out
of the passion to correct a similarly
wrong presentation of the African
stories a typical example is the
deposition of the last
of Africa above ramen the popular
narrative has always been that the
invasion of beanie by economists as in
1897 is Admiral Sir Harry Rosen response
to the ambush of the previous
british-led party or the acting console
generation Phillip which had left orbit
two men dead roses troop captured burned
and looted Benin City bring it to an end
the West African kingdom of Benin as a
result most of the country’s stolen art
included believe bronze
we’re located to Great Britain and
several other places around the world so
when I made this Fame it became enough
front we have our own paths side of the
story
I’m not all having our own side of the
story it might be presented to them.2
here to see so I took this particular
production to the British Museum to be
screened of course it was not going to
be an easy fight they said his credit
report is very bad they are going to
screen every person is going to come
into the hall but to the glory of God we
were able to stake this movie our own
Vashem told them I was a missed audience
we did a dam today this is our own side
of the story which before now has never
be presented by anybody and they sat
when the movie started and our royal
majesty
then the Crown Prince came by himself as
a special guest to be in the hall it was
a night of glory where the story of the
African man is been taught by an African
directly in front of these guys that has
always taught the African story their
of course some white faces run out of
how bizarre how unthinkable how wicked
there are people way to us because we
went back in time in presenting
something led to the reason why they
came they are always Sai said this stuff
that they wanted here that he places in
rich please
they have Pepe and this craft was
so as fabric 200 years ago when you see
the architectural work of art here
you’ll be amazed the way the palaces
were beauty so we were not all together
dance has been presented always so the
movie in visual 1897 afforded me the
opportunity to read narrate our own
experience as Africans to change the
narrative of perpetually presenting
Africans from the negative point of view
where was the invasion these were
personal questions we needed to add
where was invasion why did invaders
leave their country what were they
looking for in my country so you see the
reverse that has happened today before
they used to come to look for us but
sadly they used to come to look for us
because there was something here that I
needed Don lope had developed tyre for
bicycle and the only place that where
houses the natural resources-we a tires
durometer can be found for them to
advance they are automobile starting
from bicycle wasn’t believed so they
came to the west african swamp where
they can get roba because this place
house is the best of it around the world
but today today
the reverse is the case because we have
been loaded with this narrative that we
a motto nothing we can give nothing
there’s not enough vailable that is why
today we are now wanted to go to that
side before they used to come to that
side what went wrong why did they target
punitive expedition let’s punish them
for what they did to us as simple as
that
let us punish them for what they did to
us did we commit any offense no you
cannot visit us now is he by force no I
don’t need your friendship now is it by
force
no my handshake is forbidden at this
point in time when I respect the way I
want to live my life there was a
disagreement but importantly that
narrative was here that event happened
here the motivation for them to leave
their home but we had it here as a
people organized well fed naturally if
you know what I mean welfare God
deposited everything we needed to have
as human beings right here in Ireland
and they needed just that that is why
they came you can answer that
well the good Papa did not live India
life peacefully before the British came
back came to desecrate Ireland weren’t
the Western storytellers implicating
that I read to those who came curse the
war stole artifact and place them in the
Amazon why are they not be condemned by
the Western media as we speak today why
is it that every time there is something
wrong always with the African man why is
it that at every point in time there is
something they want to teach us of
course I am NOT talk politics reason we
are vocation for where we are intro
for Torah and focusing there’s so much
within us that we have not tapped into
these informational questions give a
sort test in a month and has continued
to yen for answers in answer some of
them I had to take the bull bites on to
make envision 1897 infusing our own bias
and telling the story from the prism of
any man who feels that injustice has
been meted on us and no one is willing
to listen my argument here for is that a
beanie Kingdom didn’t travel to Britain
then one can interpret the British art
as genocide I presented my people as
fearless men and women who fought
gallantly with less sophisticated
ammunition and was able to stand the
Gunpowder power of the British intruders
we bows with arrows we match it idea for
presented an alternative dialectics
which is true of our people our rich
cultural learning was also shown to be
sacred and cannot be sacrificed on the
author of Western encroachment for very
serious political and religious reasons
who won’t go for them I am a Christian
don’t get me wrong I believe in true
globalization I believe in us as
changing what we have you take what I
have you give me what you have with
respects we had our rules we had our
ways the visitors coming should respect
like when we go now as yield Africans
what is a story that you want to tell of
yourself how do you want to present your
story as an African how do you want to
connect to other part of the world what
are the things that you don’t on the
internet as it concerns Africa these are
salient questions as young people we
need to answer
I feel the story of the African
origination the African life can be
represented to the world the more
beautiful thing you see about yourself
the more motivated you are the more
beautiful things you hear about yourself
the more energy that gets into you the
more beautiful thing you hear about your
environment the more energized you are to be part of the beauty bless you
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