South African actor John Kani has suggested reasons most foreign film makers are able to produce better movies that tell the Africans story, than African filmmakers.

Speaking in an interview with Doreen Avio, he mentioned that the challenge of inadequate funding results in most African stories either untold or poorly told.

"Why can't we do a better Wakanda, or a better Black Panther? Why do people from another country tell African story? This is because, they have big budget.

When we do movies, we have tiny budgets which cannot aid us explore the beauty of this continent to dig deeper into the different cultures that come together to create this unique people", he said.

He therefore called on Africans with the financial resource to collectively help grow the African movie industry.

"We need the rich Africans to support the art; television and film industry then we can compete with other countries. On our terms, we don't want to go there and be allocated in the foreign lands with categories of the Oscars, and Grammys but we compete on our little side with them. You can't go to the main, because we are the main and the beginning of humanity, therefore our work is critically important," he added.

John Kani intimated that another way of improving on the quality of movies produced in Africa create a learning space for the production process.

"What we will seek to do is to create a learning space. A young person in Ghana or Nigeria can take a script and develop it and make it an approved, acceptable and easy to find within the moguls of Nollywood", he said.

John Kani is known for portraying T'Chaka in the Marvel Cinematic Universe films Captain America: Civil War, and Black Panther, Rafiki in The Lion King and Colonel Ulenga in the Netflix films Murder Mystery, and Murder Mystery 2.