Reines africaines: Njinga

To all the posters on here that are criticizing with their double standards about the Portuguese not being the first to practice slavery on Africa and that Africans practiced slavery on their own. It's not possible to relativize the one with the other. Get off your high horse people!

Victim blaming serves to create psychological distance between the blamer and it occurs when the victim of a crime or any wrongful act is held entirely or partially at fault for the harm that befell them. The victim blaming serves no one. There is no justification or excuse.

Slavery, forced labor and human trafficking are violations of human rights because these acts strip human beings of their inherent rights. Period!

The narrator should be African, to tell our stories from the correct perspective.

African names must be pronounced in our language and intonation because they carry deep meanings.

Smacks of a colonial perspective when everyone, apart from the actors is non-African.

Expected better from Netflix.

Netflix, Africa must tell her own stories. That is a deal breaker. We can no longer turn a blind eye to the foreign telling of our history.

Glad you have begun to share our stories pre and post slavery and the fact that's we fought for our freedom and independence for over 400 years.

Some of us are still fighting today.

Jada Smith yet again is going full throttle with the non-sense. Wrong accents, wrong names, everything about this "documentary" is false.

If you are so supportive of Africans, why did you not go and hire true Africans for the roles instead of British actors with a dark skin tone? Because it's the dark skin tone you're after, not the truth.

You could have hired real African men and women, gave them an opportunity, and the show would have had, maybe, a chance. But I guess we're all here following what "her grandma told her"

The name of the show tells you everything about what's going on in Jada's isolated head... African - Queens. That's all she's trying to prove, one way or another, and she's failing. Miserably.

Way to go dumping your money down the drain... again.

Way to go showing your, and your grandma's ignorance to the world.

This time, Will can't stop keeping your name and your failures apart.

It is indeed an interesting story to check it out, i love history and old times stories.. to tell you the truth i was waiting for this show to be released on netflix , then i started watching and i got lost quickly in the low budget acting and scenes ... they brought actors from england with english accent to represent african history... not one actor convinced me with his role or personality..... this show could be a great one on netflix if they worked hard but it was a flop ... you meet the Africans speaking UK accent ... then the Portuguese and the dutch have same accent ... oh i couldn't handle that anymore .

As native Angolan, I have to criticize this western revisionist "documentary".

1- The actors aren't native, the languages also aren't. They hired a British-Nigerian... it's not even a native Nigerian. And even if it was, Nigerians and Angolans aren't the same just because we share higher amounts of melanin. We have different cultures, languages, and even physical traits. Our histories also diverge.

( nothing against Yorubas and Igbo people, much respect for their history and cultures, but I believe they wouldn't like someone from a different culture to portray their own history on TV ).

2- Many names and important Kingdoms were ignored to promote an inaccurate story, as well for many historical facts omitted for western narratives... again.

Angolan stories should be about Angolan truths and reality from that period, not western revisionism and ignorance.

It's just disrespectful and insulting.

It might be a good initiative to focus more on African stories, but at least, the very least, is to do a good job, specially when we are talking about national heroes, nationality and culture, you have the obligation to do it right and the most respectful way possible.

It doesn't matter who is behind all of this, the fame and money they have in America, you should just respect our cultures and stories.

Maybe it's time for western people to stop putting Africans in generic skin color boxes... our realities are different; first we see ethnic groups, languages and nationality, and only after we look at skin colour and only if necessary.