African Film and Literature: Very first blog ever...

Monday, January 28, 2008

Very first blog ever...

Here's the first of (at least) seven blogs of African Film and Lit. Never wrote a blog before. My name is Wendy and I know nothing about Africa, but have always wanted to go. So, I'm looking forward to learning about Africa through its film and literature in this class.

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* Explanation of Ewemina Proverb Above

"The Ewe-mina are one of the major ethnic groups in Benin, Ghana, and Togo. They are mostly farming communities, but they also hunt and fish. The above proverb, which exists in different forms in many parts of Africa, describes the unknown realities in the forest when a lion and a hunter come face to face. In the proverb the lion, considered to be the king of the jungle and the most powerful animal, symbolizes all the animals.

This Ewe-mina Proverb refers to this unknown part of the struggle between the lion and the hunter because we Africans know well that a story is never complete until one hears from both sides. The one who does not have the voice is often the loser. This loser might well be the lion to the hunter, the servant to the master, the chief to his subjects, the wife to her domineering husband. It is in these circumstances when one voice dominates the other that this proverb is often heard. Our duty is to tell the African story in the way that does justice to our sufferings and our struggles." (JG Healey "African Proverbs, Sayings and Stories"
(www.afriprov.org/welcome.htm)