Skip to playerSkip to main content
  • 2 days ago
Benita Jacques, a young mother from Montreal, is seeking answers about her origins, questions that have always been unanswered. Determined to enlighten her children about their heritage, she travels to West Africa. Her journey begins at the Museum of Black Civilizations in Dakar, where she explores the exhibition ""Africa, Cradle of Humankind and Modern Civilizations."" In her quest to understand the lives of her ancestors before the deportation, she meets experts and traverses time through spiritual, historical, and scientific testimonies, discovering the remnants of the continent's golden age.
Transcript
00:00For the first time, I went to Senegal in West Africa, in search of my ancestral landmarks.
00:06I discovered that a whole section of black history has been deliberately hidden.
00:12At a certain time, the West believed that it was the center of the world.
00:19This was a well-organized hunt, and unfortunately, it's the hunters who wrote our story.
00:24I want my children to learn early what I learned late.
00:30Thank you very much.

Recommended