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ReviewWhile the series offers a historical figure as an icon of resistance, it doesn’t shy away from talking about the complex history of African kingdoms, and their entanglement with the slave trade. Courtesy/JadaPinketSmithTwitterThe intrigues of a monarch’s court–the convoluted politics, treason, loyalty, and the legacies of queens and kings–are mostly reserved for European historical fiction on our screens. Streaming platforms are rife with white-centric tales like The Tudors, and The Crown among others, which reinforce a narrative that absolves powerful European dynasties of the guilt of imperialist plunder and colonial violence. Often, biopics on queens like Mary Queen of Scots or Elizabeth - I, are peddled as ‘feminist’ stories, regardless of what their regimes did to colonised people. Now, compare this to productions on Black history by Hollywood. Films by big studios with multi-million dollar budgets rarely tend to focus on much else than Black...