Christ resurrected as black revolutionary
Rory Carroll in Johannesburg
Saturday January 21, 2006
The Guardian

He is not meek, he is not blond and he most definitely is not white. A new interpretation of the Bible has cast Jesus Christ as a revolutionary fighting oppression in contemporary Africa.

Billed as the world's first black Jesus film, Son of Man, which premieres tomorrow at the Sundance film festival in Utah in the US, challenges Hollywood depictions of a western-looking messiah with a gritty portrayal of a political activist who rallies a township. The rest