Great and informative documentaries about Africa and Africans

[frankster]

This thread is a rift of @Troy thread 100 best black movies ever....

Please list documentaries about Africa Africans and Blacks you find informative and interesting.....even Lectures are welcome

 

 

Hidden Colors Full Documentary

[Troy]

I have a few favorites off the top of my heard:

 

Black History: Lost, Stolen or Strayed (1968)

 

 

John Henrik Clarke - A Great and Mighty Walk

 

[Pioneer1]

I enjoyed the documentary with Bill Cosby in it.
There's a certain "realness" about the Black themed movies and documentaries of the 60s that seemed to have gotten lost by the time the 80s rolled around.

[frankster]

13TH | FULL FEATURE | Netflix

 

Slavery by Another Name

[Delano]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=odx9NEHc17M&t

[umbrarchist]

.

[Pioneer1]

If you want to learn about Africans, all you have to do is come to Western Michigan and THESE Africans here will teach you what you need to know...lol.
We literally have Africans from every single country on the Continent.
And an ABUNDANCE of them from half of those countries.

When I ask some of the older ones why they chose Western Michigan to settle in, most of them gave an interesting answer.
They said it was right between Detroit and Chicago.
2 places with plenty of Black people and major airports....but far enough away from both that you don't have the crime or negative influence of a lot of Black Americans, lol.
 

[ProfD]

33 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

If you want to learn about Africans...

My question to Africans and West Indians and South and Central Americans too is why they don't stay and build their home countries. 

 

I already know *why* but after boasting about how *proud* they are to be [insert nationality here], I enjoy listening to them try to explain the  *failures* of their countries and why they can't get sh8t popping over there. 

[Pioneer1]

ProfD

There you go again stealing the thunder on BOTH accounts....lol.

1. When you asked the question in the first sentence, I knew it was rhetorical and I was going to respond that you KNOW why they don't stay and build their own countries...lol.

2. Also, I was going to tell you that I too get  a kick out of standing there with my arms folded listening to them 'splaining why they're still in America 20 and 30 year later after finishing school or accomplishing whatever they said they were here to accomplish and not back home where they claimed they were going.
One excuse after another.

The more I deal with Africans, the more I see the slick and slippery ways of a lot of our own people in them despite the cultural differences...lol.
Every race and ethnic group has their slick and slippery...janky...side.
But it seems like there is some sort of "genetic" blue print for people of African descent regardless of nationality or culture where you find similar behavior traits among us.

Like Black women smacking their lips at eachother in contempt...lol.

Or Black men lowering their voices when they want to attract the woman their talking to...lol.

 

[ProfD]

17 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

ProfD

There you go again stealing the thunder on BOTH accounts....lol.

It's all good bro.

17 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

The more I deal with Africans, the more I see the slick and slippery ways of a lot of our own people in them despite the cultural differences...lol.

It is great to have conversations with folks from different countries. First-hand knowledge and perspective.

 

17 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Every race and ethnic group has their slick and slippery...janky...side.
But it seems like there is some sort of "genetic" blue print for people of African descent regardless of nationality or culture where you find similar behavior traits among us.

People are more alike than different regardless of nationality and culture. 

17 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Like Black women smacking their lips at eachother in contempt...lol.

Latinas and trailer park white women do the same sh8t.

 

17 minutes ago, Pioneer1 said:

Or Black men lowering their voices when they want to attract the woman their talking to...lol.

Hispanic dudes know how to stop yelling and let their gold teef shine when they're trying to get next to a snatch-box.

[Troy]

14 hours ago, ProfD said:

People are more alike than different regardless of nationality and culture. 

 

Inherently we are.  Culture exerts a great deal of control in creating differences and even killing each other over them.  

 

Our culture extols mighty individualism other are communal.  I believe we evolved to be communal and are optimized for that behavior and we would be better off if out culture aligned with our nature.

[Pioneer1]

ProfD

 

 

It is great to have conversations with folks from different countries. First-hand knowledge and perspective.

 

That, and I find women with accents and from foreign cultures exceptionally attractive...lol.

 

 

 

People are more alike than different regardless of nationality and culture. 

 

True.
However some of those differences are so stark and appalling that it overrides any similarities we may share.

 

I don't care how much we may have in common, if I smell your body odor before I'm even within hearing distance....it's a wrap, lol.

 

 

 

Latinas and trailer park white women do the same sh8t.

 

I've heard Latinos smack their lips but I haven't see White people male OR female do this.
Or Asians either.

 

[frankster]

Hidden Colors 2 - The Triumph Of Melanin Official Trailer

 

Michelle Alexander - Mass Incarceration in the United States

On 9/2/2025 at 7:39 PM, ProfD said:

My question to Africans and West Indians and South and Central Americans too is why they don't stay and build their home countries. 

 

I already know *why* but after boasting about how *proud* they are to be [insert nationality here], I enjoy listening to them try to explain the  *failures* of their countries and why they can't get sh8t popping over there. 

Curious....

What do they tell you?

and if different....

What do you know about this issue?

[ProfD]

16 hours ago, frankster said:

Curious....

What do they tell you?

The Africans will tell me about the corrupt leadership and nepotism and other shady dealings that keep their countries from being more successful.

[frankster]

On 9/4/2025 at 2:54 PM, ProfD said:

The Africans will tell me about the corrupt leadership and nepotism and other shady dealings that keep their countries from being more successful.

Then they do not have a full and clear understanding of what is primarily happening in their own country.....

The causes they list are at most tertiary....if that.

[ProfD]

1 hour ago, frankster said:

Then they do not have a full and clear understanding of what is primarily happening in their own country.....

The causes they list are at most tertiary....if that.

Whatever the reason(s) for failure they are not back *home* trying to fix it.

[frankster]

3 hours ago, ProfD said:

Whatever the reason(s) for failure they are not back *home* trying to fix it.

True....

is it possible that they can help fix from abroad?

[ProfD]

14 minutes ago, frankster said:

True....

is it possible that they can help fix from abroad?

Anything is possible.  I've got quite a few Africans in my extended family. They build houses and send money back home but otherwise don't appear to be *fixing* a d8mn thing. They're living high on the hog over here.

[frankster]

Just now, ProfD said:

Anything is possible.  I've got quite a few Africans in my extended family. They build houses and send money back home but otherwise don't appear to be *fixing* a d8mn thing. They're living high on the hog over here.

Maybe they  help by not being part of or adding to the problem....

Building houses and sending back money is a good thing....isn't it?

The New York Times Presents The #1619Project

[ProfD]

6 minutes ago, frankster said:

Maybe they  help by not being part of or adding to the problem....

Building houses and sending back money is a good thing....isn't it?

Africans have been sending money back home for decades. Their home countries don't seem to be improving.

 

Sure...a few more family members are living better.

 

Greed and corruption and foreigners are still running the show.

[frankster]

21 hours ago, ProfD said:

Africans have been sending money back home for decades. Their home countries don't seem to be improving.

True

Not all improvement is always visible...some progress is way too slow

 

21 hours ago, ProfD said:

Sure...a few more family members are living better.

That is good

 

21 hours ago, ProfD said:

Greed and corruption and foreigners are still running the show.

There lies the problem.....Foreign Intervention

I am not so worried about greed and corription so long as the bulk or greater part of the proceeds stay local

They're Trying to Kill Us