Africa Rising

Africa Rising, is a six-part series, exploring Africa’s rich history. The documentaries are driven by the combative theory of ‘Africa Rising”, approaching the theme from the point of view of President Donald Trump’s description of Black African and Caribbean countries, as ‘sh*tholes.

The series begin by examining the impact of Trump’s comment, discussing how it influenced transformation of relations between Africa and the Western world. It goes on to explore the pre-history of Africa before Islamic and western colonisation, showing how Africans created the sapient world, developed language, philosophy, art, technology, religion, architecture, and culture.

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Africa Rising then discusses how Persian, Greco-Roman invasion of ancient African civilisations triggered the weakening of Africa, resulting in Islamic conquest and enslavement of Africans from the 7th century A.D, to date, which paved the way for systemic victimisation of Africans, over 3000 years of European and Arab histories.

The series further explore how Islam and Christianity have unsuccessfully tried to erase African spiritualities—the source of African wisdom, strength, and resilience. How these patriarchal religions systemically destroyed African female agency, leaving them with little economic independence, poverty, and a desire for both Arabisation and Westernisation. The documentaries also examine how capitalist and Islamic modernities eradicated and replaced African indigenous economic, political, and cultural infrastructures, and replaced them with deadly ‘push’ factors, like starvation, disease, and military conflicts, which create impetus to abandon the continent.

Africa Rising critiques G7 countries, particularly how they created environmental problems, that they now expect Africans to resolve. And how G7 have controlled and manipulated world governance and resources against the interests of so-called «sh*thole countries».

The final programme highlights recent revolutionary upsurge on the continent. It examines leadership potentialities, economic challenges, popular political will; and threats—both external and internal’, to these radical initiatives. The programme asks whether the upsurge is merely another false dawn, or is the continent finally on the move towards lasting development and greatness?

Africa Rising targets students, writers, researchers, journalists, activists, and educators, challenging them to decolonise their research and representation of the continent and her peoples. It relies heavily on a mixture of archival materials, animation, Computer generated Images (CGI), live action footage of debates, seminars, lectures, graphics, animation, interviews with economists, politicians, sociologists, scientists, archaeologists, anthropologists, and palaeontologists.