Wednesday 14 February 2018

Afrofuturism: The genre that made Black Panther

( CNN) Ultimately, Marvel has a black superhero movie — and the world of social media has said it’s lit.

The film reimagines history. Wakanda is a secretive African country that was never colonized and is the most advanced commonwealth in the world.
While Black Panther breaks new ground in Hollywood, the cinema itself owes its vision to Afrofuturism, a 20 th century cultural aesthetic that subverted sci-fi — a white-dominated genre — by placing black people front and center in futuristic worlds.

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