Revisions Of Us

ARCHIVED BY NAIMA HAUS EST. 2016 — REVISITED 2026 The Rou Project began with a question: What connects us? Its purpose was to bridge the gap between continental Africans and the Diaspora here in the US. Arriving at age 10, I felt this division firsthand. My grandfather urged me to find the root of our disconnect—slavery and media lies—rather than fight it with fists. He passed before seeing the full series, but Revisions of Us is my answer to him. Through photography and interviews, I archived our resilience to debunk the stereotypes that divide us. Now, in 2026, this work serves as the foundation for the ancestral ecosystem I am building. The vision for the "Revisionsofus" documentary remains alive. Until then, this is the archive.

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“In the 4th grade I would watch the way the other black kids behaved and how unruly and violent it appeared to me and how they would harass me for being "black as coal and having black gums". I remember one day I had gotten tired of being bullied and I said " We are not the same; I'm African." I had to find some type of confidence. I thought we all looked the same but they never forgot to remind me that I smelled like "Africa". Now they comment "Black Queen" and "Melanin" under my Instagram pictures.” - Rukayat Adedamilola

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“Making a statement like “we’re not Africans, We’re Black” proves how successful our oppressor has been in teaching us self-hate” - Ralph

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"The American  media's biggest crime regarding black people , in  my opinion , has  been  depriving them  of their culture and  education , which  are the two   most  powerful weapons  anyone  could have.The media, whenever  covering  black history, most of the time stops at perhaps the  darkest moment in African-American   history,which  is the trans Atlantic slave trade." - Mahamoud   Diop 

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“I think the only way for change to happen and inequalities to be righted is if the African diaspora unites, but that will only happen when people of the diaspora realize that they are connected. If you look at the catastrophe happening on the island of Hispaniola, from the outside it seems like two countries having immigration problems. But when you are aware of the history you realize that what you really have is one group of Spanish colonized blacks wanting the other group of French colonized blacks deported from one island to the other side of the same island.“ - Tinora Locke

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