Stolen African wealth

Many of us love the treasure hunt films where white men go to Africa and loot the jewels and gold from ancient African treasuries. These mines and pyramids are sacred to them. They’re content with their simple lives and till the last drop of their blood, they’ll guard their treasure not because they want to get rich by selling them but these need to stay untainted where they are.

The whites are shown as taking gold and diamonds to their countries. They get richer and Africa gets poorer. They condescendingly call the continent poor. Sometimes the film concludes with them missing fetching the valuables or realizing that there was no gold at the end of the rainbow.

There’s a frail white and conventionally beautiful damsel in distress. The hunky hero must choose between her and finding wealth.

The African custodians of the riches are portrayed as blood-thirsty savages. They are in reality protecting their reserve with simple bows, arrows, stones, rocks and spears against the guns and bombs of the whites.

The paintings drawn by the whites often deliberately depicted the Africans battling against the Europeans as fierce brutes when the truth was that they hadn’t been so aggressive. Those erroneous pictures are taken as sacrosanct historical documents.

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