BLACK PANTHER SHOULD HELP KILL THE ABILITY OF SOME FOLKS TENDENCY TO MISREPRESENT AFRICA

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‘Black Panther’ creates a precedent that kills the ability of folks to misrepresent and distort the continent,” Gurira said. 

“The things that it checks off: complex African female characters; African language on a big screen; African characters who are varied in many different ways and heroic; the heroism of Africans for themselves and not needing a White hero—go figure—to reach their goals; celebrating so many specific African cultural-isms. No one can really now try to put forth some product where Africa is seen begging for a White superhero to come and save it.”

~COLORLINES 

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