The Aeneid: Aeneas and Queen Dido

 

I want to produce Virgil's "The Aeneid", because he explicitly identified two major groups of African tribes and named one primary Numidian warlord who served as their prominent leader.
They deserve to be recognized on the big screen for the celebration of our African history in motion picture.

Virgil's "The Aeneid" is a greater epic than Homer's "The Odyssey".

The African Tribes
The Numidians: Described by Virgil as "unbridled" or "untamed" (Numidae infreni), they were a nomadic Berber people renowned across the ancient Mediterranean for their elite, bridleless cavalry warfare.

 
The Gaetulians: Referred to by Virgil as the "Gaetulian cities, a race unconquered in war" (Gaetulae urbes, genus insuperabile bello). They were a fierce, nomadic desert confederation situated south of Numidia along the fringes of the Sahara.
The Libyans: A generic term Virgil uses to describe the broader, inhospitable local indigenous tribes (Libycae gentes) threatening Carthage's borders.

The Numidian Warlord
King Iarbas: He is the primary African king and warlord highlighted in the epic. He is a powerful ruler of the Gaetulians and Numidians, born from a union between the Roman/North African god.

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Ada Ure, First Daughter of Beauty

Ada is the Igbo name for the first daughter.

Her body decorated with Uli black dye motifs.

Uli is as old as 3000!BC

Igbo mythology said Uli was a gift from Ala, the goddess of earth, who blessed women with the ability to create art.

The Igbo tribe has the oldest monarchy in Africa dating back to the ancient Igbo Ukwu during the Bronze Age around  3,000-2,500 BC,  same period of the Indus Valley Civilisation.

Uli Si Naka Chi

Means Art of Uli comes from the hand of destiny or God.

This esoteric NFT is done in Nsibidi, ancient form of writing in pictograms,  logograms or syllabograms by the Igbo tribe and related ethnic groups in South Eastern Nigeria. Insibidi means the Beginning in Igbo language.

I have been exhibited in Japan in 1983 when I was 20 and my works were insured by the UNESCO. I was exhibited in the National Museum of Nigeria and curated the first Art Against AIDS Exhibitions in Nigeria in 1993 at the National Museum and National Arts Theatre in Lagos. All the works were collected. 

My highest priced works in oil paintings on canvas were, "The Metamorphosis of the HIV in the T-Cell" was bought by Family Health International (FHI) and "Eruption of the Love Virus" bought by a private art collector. $20,000 for each one at first exhibition in the National Museum in 1993.

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