Will Smith: A Film about when blacks of Ethiopian descent ran Egypt

From Pop Critics

In case you’re wondering, the film reportedly centers on Taharqa, the last Pharaoh of the 25th or Nubian Dynasty (the one in which blacks of Ethiopian descent ran Egypt) and is supposedly full of Ethiopians battling Assyrians for the throne of Amun-Ra. Taharqa was the son of Piye, the Nubian king of Napata who had first conquered Egypt, and the younger brother and successor of Shebitku. Read More.

9 Responses to “Will Smith: A Film about when blacks of Ethiopian descent ran Egypt”


  1. 1 Dorowet Sep 9th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

    Will Smith he looks like Ethiopian “Habesha” and it will be a great movie if will is in it@
    Cheers
    Yohan from Sydney

  2. 2 Ayele Bekerie Sep 11th, 2008 at 4:06 am

    Dear Tadias,

    The title of the film should have been ‘when Ethiopians ran Egypt.’ The 25th Dynsaty (751 – 525 BCE) was an Ethiopian Dynasty, a Dynasty that ruled both Egypt and Nubia, which was also called Ethiopia. The name Ethiopia in the ancient times refers to territories south of ancient Egypt. What William Leo Hansberry calls Alpine Ethiopia or Present Day Ethiopia adopts the name in the fourth century of the Common Era.

    I think the movie is a great opportunity to broaden the field of Ethiopian Studies. It will help us to frame the field as global Ethiopian Studies. In addition to the ancient history of Ethiopia (Meroitica and Aksumita Ethiopia), we have a rich intellectual history of Ethiopianism and Neo-Ethiopianism (Rastafrianism) in the African Diaspora, South Africa, West Africa, and the Caribbean. In short, we need to recognize the fact that the ’stretched hands of Ethiopia’ is a global phenomena.

    Ayele Bekerie

  3. 3 Hanniba HABESH Feb 27th, 2009 at 11:49 am

    Dorowet,

    The ancient Ethiopians who ruled Egypt at that time didn’t have the dark brown skin that most of us habeshas have today. They were jet black Ethiopians like our ancestors ex.gambella southern people
    p.s Nubian means dark skinned.

    chao

  4. 4 Uru Zoser Netcher Apr 16th, 2009 at 11:06 pm

    The Nuwaupic, Napata and Meroe tongue became the Kushite tongue which became the Amharic, Gheez, Arabic, Aramaic dialects Ethiopia and Egypt are Greek words give to describe the inhabitants of Nuwaupia called TaMa-Re or the lands of HutKaPtah and HutBaPtah as being Black. From the 15th thru 18th dynasty Heka Khasut(hyksos, Canaanite lepers) Shepard kings ruled a small portion of Waset (Thebes) for 430 years. By the 18th dynasty these Tama’-hu were pushed across the desert and out of Kemet by a pure seed Paa A’aferti Ahmus (The Pharoah Ahmose) into the land of Kadmon later called the land of Canaan now called Palestine. Before there were dynasties from the mighty lake Mwanza falsely called “Victoria” up the Nile through Kenya, Aksum(Ethiopia), Ta-Nehisi(Sudan), TaMaRe(Khemet,Nuwaupia,HutKaPtah and HutBaPtah -Egypt, the Tahites, Danig, Medjayu are all pure unmixed Nubuns who resemble the Nazdiru who they depict in their statues, temple wall carvings and mosaics as their ancestors and original rulers of the lands. ‘p.s Nubian means dark skinned.’
    Nubian takes its origin from the word Nuwaupu/Nuwaubu
    Nuwaupic/Napata – Nub means Gold
    – Neb(i,u) means Master, my Master, Masters
    Ashuric/Syretic Nabu- Prophet
    Nabawa- to predict;Prophecy
    Nabiy- Prophet
    Nubu- Brown
    Nuwaupic/Sumerian/
    Chaldean – Nebu Master

  5. 5 Lamar Perryman May 28th, 2009 at 7:07 pm

    The actual truth of the matter that Africans, Euro-Caucasians, Indians, Orientals, Arabs, Indigenous Scholars,
    Classical Scholars alike do not want to ADMIT or fail to see
    is That The Heka Khasut ( Hyksos ) were Nothing But Black Kanaanite Peoples Called The Shepherd Kings and The Proto-Israelite Peoples that are now called The Hebrews, Israelites and Jews who were These Kanaanite Peoples known as KINNAHU.
    The fact is that they were The new Shepherd Kings, Leaders and Rulers of Civilzation for that period of time.These Kanaanites were a Mixture of what bible Scholars now call Hamitic and Shemitic which is to say Sumerian-Indus Valley Dravidian Peoples and Nubian-Egyptian Peoples. The Kham=Kemet=Egypt and The Semu=Sumerians=Shem and these Kanaanites were a mixture of thse two peoples who mixed in with the Original Kanaanites/Palestineans The Naftufians who were also fron West-Central Africa.

    These Kanaanites brought in Indians, Orientals and Europeans
    as Slaves and Servants and Taught them Government and Civilization which made The Southern Theban Egyptians Angry and later caused the war between the Thebans and Heka Khasut
    ( Hyksos ). This is the Whole History of The Kanaanite Heka Khasut along with that of Pharoah Akenaten, Phr. High Priest Osar-Seph ( The Biblical Moses ), also known as Pharoah Moses.
    The Kanaanite Civilization, Atenism and Judaism.

    During The Indo-Oriental Invasions by Cambyses and then The Greek-Roman invasions of Egypt, Sumeria and Canaan 332 B.C. to 70 A.D. millions of these Black Canaanites went into Western Africa and even The Americas BEFORE, During and After the West African Holacaust of The Great Maafa known as The Transatlantic Slave Trade. A large part of this history affects Moorish/Black/African-Americans to this day and is the Truth behind and of Historical Israel and NOT Mythological, Theological, Racial-Based Israel as The made up stories now told by Euro-Caucasian and Arab Scholars and taught in the fake school systems, churches and mosques of today’s times.

    That is All.

    MLP.,
    Pharoah Israel,
    MAFN, The Nationalists.

  6. 6 Assyrian King Jun 19th, 2009 at 2:11 am

    YEA!!!! WE Assyrians conquerd egypt and burned memphis,and thebes to the ground I cant wait until this movie comes out and by the way Aramaic is spoken by Assyrians and even today we speak it fluently.

  7. 7 Taharqa Oasama Elnour Jan 8th, 2010 at 9:39 am

    Just to explain one thing we should look at the modern map today to know the places that we are talking about NAPTA and Meroe are 2 cities in north of Sudan, at that time Sudan and Ethiopia were one country. Taharqa is a sudanese king. Taharqa imagery is standing in the Sudanese National Museum in Khartoum the capital city of Sudan. a country that suffered from an islamic radical regieme that decline and rejected a history of a country before Islam which explain the lack of infomation on the Enternet as theere is no soppurt for such studies.

    Please check Sudan’s map to see the cities mentioned above knowing that Meroe is one of the biggest cities in north Sudan province in our modern day

  8. 8 ashoka Feb 11th, 2010 at 8:53 am

    hi there

    i am a histroy buff ,can u support me 2 get producer.i can direct movies in india .i am indian we hav e very good actors and finish it very good budget

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  9. 9 islam elnagar Feb 19th, 2010 at 9:03 am

    King of Nubia Thraca was not from Ethiopia but was a Nubian king ruled the Kingdom of Nubia and Abyssinia

    I refuse to steal our civilization and the kings of Nubia them

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