EXPLANATION ON TERMINOLOGY

Words play a critical role in articulating our reality, we must thus find ways to control word usage when it speak to our condition through a process of assimilating and normalizing words that serve in our interest.

The word African specifically relates to the indigenous people of the African continent and their descents in the Diaspora ( Caribbean , Americas , Arabia , etc). The race-nationality model such as that currently employed by African-American, African-Brazilian and African-Caribbean communities more accurately describes the identity whilst fully articulating the history and geopolitical reality of African people globally. The miscellaneous usage of the label 'Black' within this documentary reflects its contemporary use as a means to denote a specific socio-cultural and political context. It is recognized as a colloquial term that was fashioned as a reactionary concept to derogatory racial epithets in the 1960's. It is offensive when used as a racial classification code word to denote African people. Other such denigrating terminology when made in reference to African culture, heritage or identity are 'Tribe', 'Sub-Saharan Africa', or 'black Africa '.

*THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF AFRICAN UNITY IS SWAHILI AND THE OFFICAL SCRIPT IS AMHARIC (Ge'ez prounouced Geut 'erz) Please download the font it you cannot see the following script (ግዕዝ) right-click and save-as, then copy the font into your c/directory font folder.

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