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‘Black Panther’ and the Real, Lost Wakandas

THE BRIGHT CONTINENT

The blockbuster movie imagines an advanced African nation untouched by colonialism. That’s not fiction, it’s true history that was covered-up by racist Europeans.

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Black Panther could blow one of history’s greatest lies right out of the water.

The movie creates the technically potent Black African city-state of Wakanda that has somehow evolved without being touched by colonialism.

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