In this episode we critically analyze "The Woman King" movie with my guests Lena Crawford (Texas US) and Geechee Yaw (Costa Rica). My guests talk about the context of the making of the movie, its historical context, and inaccurate depiction of African history. The scriptwriters are European. This is one of those situations where African history has to be told through the lens of Europeans instead of having Africans tell their own story. The movie paints an inaccurate picture of slavery in West Africa between the Oyo kingdom, Dahomey kingdom, and the Portuguese slave traders. The fact of aggression and violence of European slave traders is almost non-existent in the film. The film doesn’t show Africa’s prolonged resistance and fight against slave trade in that part of the continent. Neither does the film show the real prolonged problem of Africans – namely: capitalism and/or colonialism. Lena and Geechee also critically question the opening sexual assault scene and how it is intended to paint Africa at the time as struggling with rape (sexual assault).The controllers of Hollywood/capitalist always ride on the wave of the consciousness of black people and manipulate it for their own financial gain and divert the energies of the people to Hollywood and Hollywood posing as the source of African history.

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