haouarihouse:So, in de DC universe there is a character named “Kahina the Seer”.
haouarihouse: So, in de DC universe there is a character named “Kahina the Seer”. Described with having the ability to see into the future. This sounds VERY familiar! THIS IS DIHYA!! The Amazigh queen! BUT, in the DC universe, Kahina the Seer is Iranian……. Now I have nothing against Persians (I love you beautiful people, Persian history is truely rich!), and I am ALL about diversity. So an Iranian character is a win in that regard. However I find it upsetting, to take the story of a North-African historical Queen, who BY THE WAY existed in real life, and give her a completely different look AND ethnicity. (yes, I am aware that we don’t really have a good historical source of what she looked like, but there is enough Amazigh art/statues out there to get an idea) The story of Al Kahina, should be told in its authenticity. I am tired of big brands taking our culture and turning it into to the next catwalk “Kaftan” trend, I am sick of the world taking Moroccan concepts and making it their own. Huge media creators taking our stories and turning it into a fantasy are no exception. Yes! I LOVE fiction, however Dihya is not very well-known, despite her amazing militairy victories and her incredible foresight, and just being a very powerful woman in a historical time-period, I mean all the history books will tell you that Viking women had it the best in regards of freedom, but they won’t every tell you about the Amazigh women who were free af. She should be written in every history book out there. She is merely one of the many influential Amazigh/African women who have ever existed, and I think we should not erase her. People who don’t know her, will see this DC Kahina and believe it is just that; fiction. Dihya was real. And this is my version of what she would be like in a comic. She would be North-African AF. I am tired of Africans being erased or merely culturally appropriated. Cleopatra wasn’t white. Nor was she the only powerful woman in Africa. -- source link