Purchase: der.org/films/roots-of-african-culture.html An important aspect of apartied ideology dealt with historical revisionism and propaganda. It proclaimed that black peoples were not the owners of Southern Africa by stating that the whites arrived nearly at the same time in the same areas. Today a crucial objective of every dedicated teacher in history (as well as other disciplines) is to erase this interpretation as presented in earlier textbooks, and insure that their students have clearly understood the genuine history of their country. Roots of African Culture, a video produced by the University of Natal, is an indispensable pedagogical tool in this perspective. a film by Michael Chapman and Keyan Tomaselli with the graduate students in Cultural and Media Studies at the University of Natal, Durban SA distributed by Documentary Educational Resources

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