3. WAKANDA
Black Panther‘s glorious depiction of Wakanda envisions the Africa of Black dreams. The costumes evoking African glamour, the brilliant lighting of deep brown skin, the panoramic vistas, plunging waterfalls, and vast plains of Wakanda are interspersed with an Afro-futuristic reality powered by the most miraculous substance in the Marvel Universe: Vibranium. Here, for one of the first times in Hollywood history, an idyllic, technically advanced, and regally organized African society has been boldly and unabashedly depicted on the big screen. This is a society that remains perfect because it has wisely been kept secret from the greed and cruelty of the “colonizers”, as the Wakandans call the people of the West, including the Americans.
