Black Panther: Black-Americans reimagine Africa

Friday, February 23, 2018

From Henry Morton Stanley’s ‘Dark continent’ to Donald Trump’s ‘Shit-hole’, Black-Americans, or Africans in the Diaspora, have been fed the coloniser’s one-sided narrative of Africa. This narrative, often bordering on racism, has been triumphantly challenged in the movie Black Panther, observes Staff Writer, THALEFANG CHARLES

When most Black-Americans, especially the conscious clenched-fist-in-the-air types, talk about Africa they say it with such deep and affectionate conviction that it is almost religious.

They call it ‘The Motherland’. To most of them, Africa is their source, their cradle where they could trace their entire ancestry.

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