Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jewelry of the kandake Amanishakheto from a pyramid at Meroe. Einsamer Schütze/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA Jada Pinkett Smith’s ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Netflix‘s forthcoming project, African Queens: Queen Cleopatra, has caused a stir among Egyptian experts for depicting her as ...
Netflix on Wednesday finally released its polarizing "African Queens" docu-series "Queen Cleopatra," which depicts the Egyptian ruler as Black. But Egypt has already launched counterprogramming plans ...
The EP behind Netflix‘s Queen Cleopatra docu-drama has defended the casting of an actor of mixed heritage descent in the title role, stating that Adele James reflects the “multicultural nature of ...
Who knew that Cleopatra could still inspire fierce debates two millennia after her death? Netflix has come under criticism from the Egyptian government for casting a Black actress, Adele James, to ...
The Ptolemaic queen of Egypt was a reason for a heated discussion when, in 2020, Gal Gadot was cast as Cleopatra in a Paramount Pictures’ film that never went to production. Apart from some media ...
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The queen of the winds: The ancient African goddess of storms and the afterlife
In the traditions of the Yoruba people, the wind is not just weather—it is the breath of a powerful queen. Oya is the formidable Orisha of the cemetery gates, the lightning bolt, and the ...
Debate over the race of Queen Cleopatra is nothing new. But the argument got a shot in the arm recently when Tina Gharavi, the director of Netflix docuseries African Queens, wrote an essay arguing ...
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