'Black Panther' and Advocacy: How the Film Knocked Me Out of My Complacency (Spoiler Alert)

'Black Panther' and Advocacy: How the Film Knocked Me Out of My Complacency (Spoiler Alert)

“Is it really over?” I asked out loud as the credits after Black Panther rolled. Yes, I was one of those people. No, I was not mentally prepared to leave Wakanda.

For any reader who may not be familiar with Wakanda, it is a fictional place in the Marvel Universe (Non-Geek translation: the world of Iron Man, Captain America, Hulk and Spiderman). Wakanda is the only African country to be untouched by colonial influence. The film Black Panther follows King T’Challa (Chadwick Boseman) and his rise to the throne of the isolated, technologically advanced African society.

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