This interactive session for kids and adults takes place at Fulham Palace. Fulham palace is set on acres of lovely park right next to the river, with a beach and lovely playpark
The Little Mermaid’s first iteration (1989) as a white woman stole concepts from Ancient African history. The new version of her as a Black woman was condemned and trolled in certain quarters and affected its box office performance
Hollywood has a long history of strip mining Black history and re-presenting it as generic, with no reference to its source material.
In this interactive presentation we will cover:
- Racism in film production/distribution
- White versions of African history and legends that make big money for Hollywood
- African civilisations pre-European invasion
- Brazil, Cuba, Nigeria, Panama and Streatham
- Why ‘we don’t want a Black mermaid’ and who is ‘we’
- Black rip off historians and sell outs
- Black Goddesses and White Patriarchy, can they co-exist ?
- Black women in publishing successes and inspiration
- Twenty in 2020, twenty black British authors published in the year 2020
We will hear from
Dr Michelle Asantewa the author of ‘In Search of Mami Wata : Narratives and Images of African Water Spirits’. She is also convenor of the increasingly popular Osun river festival (13th August 2023) as featured on BBC Sunday Morning show 6th August 2023
Tony Warner the Chair of the African Odysseys film programme, which has shown Black diaspora films once a month for the last 17 years. He is author of Black History Walks Volume 1, the first guide book on the African/Caribbean history in London’s streets.
Other coming events from Black History Walks
Other coming events from Black History Walks
- Black History Bus tour
- Black History river cruise
- Eugenics: Breeding out the Blacks and white supremacy
- African Superheroes Day @phoenixcinema
- James Baldwin season @ African Odysseys
- Regents Canal Black History Walk
- Theatreland/Secrets of Soho/St Pauls/Hackney/Mayfair/Notting Hill Black history Walks
- Black history cruise on Regents Canal
- How Black people Won world War 2 @the Africacentre
- How to rip off Black historians
- 60 years of struggle Black British Civil Rights
- Black History Walks Volume 1 book launch