Film Overview

The African Nation Award II are 2 DVDs featuring an annual celebration of the pulchritude of Africa in Washington, D.C. The first DVD is a video of the formal awards ceremony. The second DVD is a spectacular LIVE music show. The star attraction is supermodel and Afro-French beauty Chantal Ayissi, the first lady of Bikutsi.

The African Nation Awards 2007
Have you heard the latest news? On Saturday, January 13, 2007, we shall be celebrating the second anniversary of The African Nation Awards at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Silver Spring, Maryland. Certainly, this award/banquet will be a seminal event whose significance will be analogous to the “I have a dream” speech delivered by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., on August 28, 1963.

Beginning with Liberia’s hoax of political independence in 1847 and climaxing with South Africa’s overthrow of apartheid in1994, Africa, the cradle of civilization, has embarked on a long twilight struggle toward nationhood and continental unification. Like a relay race, every generation of Africans has sought to play an important part in the noble task and worthy work of making the dream of continental unity a reality. For instance, in 2001, the founders of the African Union (AU), like their predecessors who had established the Organization of African Unity (OAU) in 1963 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, revived the dream of continental unification.
The charters of the OAU and AU bear a similarity of a special kind. The Organization of African Unity had the following purposes: to promote the unity and solidarity of the African States; to coordinate and intensify their cooperation and efforts to achieve a better life for the peoples of Africa; to defend their sovereignty, their territorial integrity and independence; to eradicate all forms of colonialism from Africa; and to promote international cooperation, having due regard to the Charter of the United Nations and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Similarly, the aim of the AU is to have a single currency and a single integrated defense force, as well as other institutions of state, including a cabinet for the AU Head of State. The purpose of the union is to help secure Africa's democracy, human rights, and a sustainable economy, especially by bringing an end to intra-African conflict and creating an effective common market.
Today, I have a dream, a dream deeply rooted in the great American Dream. I dream that the new generation of African immigrants brought forth on this continental America will collaborate with their progeny in the motherland in spearheading and forging a new African Nation conceived in the image of the United States of America. In this wise, the African Nation will be created in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all Africans are brothers and sisters created equal.

Now, by introducing the 2007 African Nation Awards, we are engaged in a great war, fighting to ensure that the dream of The African Nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure, and shall not perish from the earth. On Saturday, January 13, 2007, the day of the 2007 African Nation Awards, we will meet on a great battlefield of that war. We will meet to celebrate those who gave their lives so that The African Nation might live. We will meet to remind ourselves of the tragic fact that Africa, which must be free, is still not free. Hence, we will meet to dramatize Africa’s appalling condition of misery, neo-colonialism, dictatorship, and war. In a sense, we will meet at the Crowne Plaza Hotel to cash a check. When Africa’s colonial masters wrote the magnificent words of political independence, they were signing a promissory note to which every African was to fall heir. It is obvious today that colonial masters have defaulted on this promissory note insofar as African citizens are concerned. Instead of honoring this sacred obligation, colonial masters have given the African people a bad check which has come back marked "insufficient funds." On Saturday, January 13, 2007, we will meet to cash this check -- a check that will give us the wealth of continental unification.
Concerning the present predicament of Africa, please, let us not wallow in the valley of despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day Africa will rise up and become a united nation like the United States of America. Let freedom ring from Cape Town to Cairo. Let freedom ring from Abidjan to Addis Ababa. When we let freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every town and every city, we will be able to speed up that day when all of Africans, will be able to join hands and sing in the words of the old Negro spiritual, "Free at last! free at last! thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"
You are, therefore, invited to attend The African Nation Awards 2007. Of course, this invitation is not free. You are in America, and you should know there is no free lunch. Learn the American way; learn to buy your freedom. Call the offices of The African Nation and order your ticket: 301-270-3711. The African Nation Awards 2007 will be a star-studded event. Seating capacity will be severely limited to two hundred guests. Because one hundred tickets have already been pre-sold to celebrities, entrepreneurs, diplomats, politicians, and patrons, only one hundred tickets are available on a first-come-first-served basis for sale to the general public, the life’s lucky winners I refer to as “Africa’s 100.” Since The African Nation Awards 2007 is a formal event, all tickets must be purchased prior to the event, and there will be absolutely no admittance of gate crashers. Hence, make yourself important; reserve your ticket today. Africa has earned high marks as the cradle of civilization. Today, Africa has become the laughing stock of the world. We can change this negative image of Africa in America. Let us meet on January 13, 2007, and make Africa great again.