Mama Africa: Miriam Makeba (African Diaspora FF)

SINCE THE TIME THAT I WROTE MY ORIGINAL COMMENTS, I HAVE LEARNED THAT THE NAME OF THE GHANIAN DICTATOR WAS KWAME NKRUMAH, AND THE MAJORITY OF HIS VICTIMS CAME FROM AN ETHNIC GROUP CALLED THE GA PEOPLE. DURING THE TIME THAT NKRUMAH WAS THGE DICTATOR OF GHANA, HE IMPOSED SEVERAL PIECES OF LEGISLATION THAT KEPT THE GA PEOPLE FROM GETTING POWER. TWO F THESE PIECES OF LEGISLATON WERE CALLED "THE AVOIDANCE OF DISCRIMINATION ACT" (1957) WHICH WAS USED TO KEEP MEMBERS OF THE GA ETHNIC GROUP FROM RUNNING FOR OFFICE, AND THE "PREVENTIVE DETENTION ACT" (1964), WHICH GAVE NKRUMAH THE POWER TO HOLD PEOPLE IN JAIL WITHOUT TRIAL, AND WHICH WAS USED TO KEEP THE GA PEOPLE FROM GAINING ANY POLITICAL POWER. WE HAVE ALL SEEN THE TERRIBLE CONSEQUENCES OF WHITE SUPREMACY IN THIS COUNTRY (ESPECIALLY ON JAN. 6TH), BUT MAKEBA & CARMICHAEL TURNED A BLIND EYE TO NKRUMAH'S SUPREMACIST VIOLENCE TOWARDS THE GA PEOPLE.

I haven't seen this film yet, and, although I am glad that Ms. Makeba and her husband, Stokely Carmichael, both spoke put about the oppression of Blacks in South Africa, I cannot understand why they would support- and pay a visit to- one of the former dictators of Ghana ( I cannot recall his name at the moment, but Amnesty International said that he slaughtered thousands of his political opponents). Weren't the Black Ghanaians entitle to the same rights as the Black South Africans? Also, Carmichael was a supporter of Mao (one the worst mass murderers in history) and Saddam Hussein (which was just as bad as supporting Slobodan Milosevic and the racist leaders of apartheid South Africa).