GHANA- Thursday, July 30, 2020/ https://africanpostonline.com/– A year after releasing the “The Lion King: The Gift” album, the Beyonce has made a comeback with a new production.
The new visual album dubbed “Black Is King” is a sequel to The Lion King album and is aimed at celebrating Black culture.
Beyonce collaborates with various African acts including Ghanaian dancehall artiste Shatta Wale which has put the artiste on the spotlight on social media during the week. This reached its peak as he became the first and only Ghanaian artiste to be shown on a Times Square screen.
Ahead of the premiere on Friday, July 31, 2020, the Disney production already has social media talking with the release of its trailer.
In a press release, Disney said the album tells a tale “about a young king’s transcendent journey through betrayal, love and self-identity,”
The American International superstar explained in an exclusive interview with GMA Pop news that she “worked with a diverse group of very gifted directors and actors and creatives from all over the world to reimagine the story of the LionKing”.
“The narrative unfolds through music videos, fashion, dance, beautiful natural settings and raw new talent but it all started in my backyard. So from my house to Johannesburg, to Ghana, to London to Belgium”.
“it was truly a journey to bring this film to life and my hope for this film is that it shifts the global perception of the word “black” which has always meant inspiration, and love, and strength, and beauty to me”.
She further added that “Black Is King to me means that black is rich in history, in purpose and in lineage”.
The album has received some backlash from social media users as they say Beyoncé “Wakandanized” (a term referring to a fictional kingdom Wakanda in the movie Black Panther ) Africa portraying the people as “repeated tropes/symbolic gestures that homogenise and essentialise thousands of African cultures in service of securing the terrain for Black capitalist possibilities & futures is tired,” Jade Bentil, a Black feminist historian and PhD researcher at the University of Oxford, said in a tweet.
The album is set to stream on Disney+ starting Friday.
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