African Films

Growing up there were times I used to believe our stories were of our own. But of late, I have seen the shift in how we tell our story as we try to fit in with the rest of the world. In the process we have lost our appeal that made us unique, cause the lesson we were supposed to learn are no longer part of the cut.

I guess this could be because we no longer write our screen plays from the African perspective but we are now pushing an agenda which ain't ours. Normalizing what used to be deemed immoral like sex before marriage. The scary part about this is that we are now yoked to things we fully know goes against our Ubuntu.

My hope is we truce our steps before we lose our culture and embedded it in our art. This way we will be able to preserve what is left of it and educate the next generation of who we are. It may seem like a far fetched idea to implement but in all honest children are now being raised by art in particular films and televions shows. Bearing that in mind we need to create shows that are educative and fun at the same time.

Burying the Genie we rubbed out trying to gain some green in social decay. Crazy part about it is that we have adopted a sex sells as part our story telling forgetting to speak of the consequences. This have been the drawing board for most marriages and young adults refusing to marry they try to adopt what they see on the big screens. I wish we could revisit our past to reshape the screens of more fulfilling content.