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