How the BLACK PANTHER & ‘Wakanda’ Came to Represent Gaddafi’s Libya…
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I haven’t seen the Black Panther movie yet; but I’m looking forward to it.
T’Challa, the Black Panther, has for a long time been one of my absolute favorite comic book characters – and I’ve been glad that his mythology has been given the cinema treatment: and that it appears to be doing so well and generating so much conversation.
But, amid all of that conversation (much of which, rightly, is focused on the subject of the first entirely black superhero movie), one thing that probably won’t be discussed is the subject I’m going to cover here now: which gives me a rare opportunity to talk about both my love of comic-book mythologies and my interest in real-world geo-political conspiracies at the same time.
This isn’t an article about the film or even about the character’s histor...