Last showing - "I AM NOT YOUR NEGRO" documentary film
In only 1 location: Electric Cinema - Shoreditch, 64-66 Redchurch Street, Shoreditch, London E2 7DP,
Sunday 16th July 2017, at 14:45
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The importation of African slaves to the European colonies meant governance by white rulers, even when outnumbered by Blacks, coloured and indigenous with one exception to the rule. After 13 years of bitter war against the French succeeded by the British and Spanish armies, St Domingue obtained its independence and created the Republic of Haiti—the first independent black republic in the world and the result of the only successful slaves revolt in history. Never again will the elite be taken by surprise.
Like an industrial rationalises its factory for better effectiveness, so would the industrialised and opulent European powers behind their determination to gradually grant their overseas territories political autonomy, chiefly after WWII, that should put them in charge of their internal affairs through policies benefitting the common good of all their people. But self-governance does not mean economic independence when, as we know, former colonies if considering the Caribbean and Indian Ocean territories produced little and solely for exportation.
How have Blacks performed in their independent states? Apart from Sub-Saharan Africa and a few other independent countries with a strong black population, where they are a minority Blacks have neither political nor economic powers and little are they seen as threats to the ruling and rich elite. African leaders who had ambitions outside and beside the former colonial empires were for most of them exiled, eliminated through assassination or accident. South Africa, free from the yoke of “Apartheid”, welcomed its first Black president in 1994; so far Blacks are yet to see economic progress.
The process of globalisation cannot suffer dissenting voices.
INDEPENDENCE BEFORE WW2 IN THE AMERICAS
French colonies
Portuguese colonies
Portugal’s only territory Brazil was organized into a confederacy of 13 captaincies centrally administered by a general captain. After Brazil proclaimed its independence in 1822 and in 1889 the country established the Federal Republic of the United States of Brazil. Brazil has a good proportion of descendants of slaves.
THE
DIASPORA
British colonies
The victory of the war for independence from the English in 1783 set the U.S.A. on a par with Old Europe. Blacks are mostly found on the east coast and south of America.
Spanish colonies
Puerto Rico belongs to the U.S.A. since July 25, 1898. Countries containing population of African heritage issued from slavery.
