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African Queens is a 2023 docudrama series focusing on female monarchs, airing on the streaming service Netflix. The series is produced and narrated by Jada Pinkett Smith and features dramatized fictional re-enactments as well as interviews with experts. The first season covers Njinga, Queen of Ndongo and Matamba, and is directed by Ethosheia ...
Afrobeats: The Backstory is a documentary series that delves into the rise and global influence of Afrobeats, a genre of music that originated in Nigeria.Directed by Nigerian filmmaker Ayo Shonaiya, the series premiered on Netflix on 29 June 2022, offering an in-depth look at the cultural, political, and social landscape that shaped the Afrobeats sound, as well as its growth.
The list includes movies, documentaries, and TV/web series that deal with or feature significant Black queer characters or issues as an important plot device. The English-language film title, original title, country of origin and production year are listed.
The first film in the series, Hidden Colors: The Untold History of People of Aboriginal, Moor, and African Descent, was given a limited theatrical release on April 14, 2011. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The second in the series, Hidden Colors 2: The Triumph of Melanin , was released the following year on December 6, 2012. [ 6 ]
The people behind two African films premiering on Netflix this month are trying to push beyond the stereotypes of the continent often played out in Hollywood, showing there's an appetite for ...
High on the Hog: How African American Cuisine Transformed America is a television docuseries released on Netflix on May 26, 2021, starring Stephen Satterfield, Gabrielle E.W. Carter and Jessica B. Harris. [1] [2] In August 2021, the series was renewed for a second season. [3]
Journey of an African Colony, The Making of Nigeria is a seven-episode Nigerian film documentary series. [1] It was released on Netflix [ 2 ] on the 60th anniversary of Nigeria's independence. [ 3 ]
Enslaved is a British-Canadian television documentary series, which premiered in 2020. [1] The series explores various aspects of the history of slavery in the United States, including the efforts of American actor Samuel L. Jackson to reconnect with his African heritage through DNA testing, diving projects to locate and recover shipwrecks in which at least two million African people captured ...