African Multimedia Industry – Dumzor Omniverse – Dumzor Introduction
Let’s describe a few house keeping defintions.
Dumzor (dumsoh/dumsor) means and refers to the light/power, off/on, light and dark.
We extend this to our African characters to differentiate between Good and Evil superheroes, though their stories, like us, will have a certain amount of grey area.
(1) Dumzor is a trade mark product name representing all the products, services and content created for AMI.
(2) AMI (African Multimedia Industry Institute) is the name of the framework whose purpose is to create an industry for like minded creatives who want to participate in creating African Worlds with African Superheroes.
Further more the framework provides a structure for all Africans to unite their fantasy Worlds under one industry name (Dumzor), which offers a central hub for all things African – black hero, heroine and fantasy.
(3) Dumzor content is designed to represent African Heroes in a fantasy Omniverse (which is all the African Universes in one space). Each African country independently adds to the AMI framework, their country in the form of a Multiverse – (All the Universes in their culture).
This means when people search the AMI framework, they can search via their African country name and find all the content refering to their culture and deities, from a fantasy persepctive.
(4) AMI Aims and Goals are simple – to create a ‘Black Fantasy’ indiustry, where black people create black content to represent their roots – Africa (albeit Africa is said to be the mother of All people). The main reason behind this, is because some cultures like Ghana, are quickly losing the core aspects of their identity, languages like Ga. This is mainly due to our historical nature where we haven’t written down our history but passed it on through vocal repetition between generations – we hope to compliment that with multimedia representations in alignment with the digital age.
(5) AMI (Ghana) aims to create written stories in a fantasy structure where we use the ancient languages like Ga, (words) sprinkled throughout – the story, so when one searches the internet for the Ga meaning of the Almighty-Supreme-Deity Sky God of Ghana , they will find “Ataa-Naa Nyonmo” or “Ofe” or ‘Maawu’ and NOT just the Akan version Nyame (Akan).
(6) Why have we chosen a fantasy theme instead of a traditional historical approach.
(a) As regards to our history where we speak of our original language and customs, it mostly relates to our deities in pre colonial times – and post colonial history depends on who has written/transcribed the events in history and ultimately you end up with several different-conflicting accounts for that part of our ‘history’.
(b) Since our languages and customs were created well before colonial transcriptions and deities are more of a belief rather than fact, it makes sense to imagine our ‘pre-colonial-history’ in a “Fantastical” way.
(c) With the support of our Learning Management System (LMS), it is more efficient to produce regular content and learning a culture by referencing our old spoken-lanaguage(s), with visual aids in a fantasy story, when participants are not distracted by complicated arguments on the ‘facts’ of colonial and post-colonial history.
To conclude, the Dumzor fantasy approach, means that we leave the debated facts of African colonial and post-colonial history to the historians and this allows us to imagine a more colourful world regardless of how complex historical events may have actually been.
In essence provides more experimental control, frees our imagination and provides a multitude of opportunites to work with our languages and cultures, in a marvellous direction – that’s both relatable to older generations and just as important, stimulates, entertains and provides optional, alternative black identities and role models for our African youth and dispora.