Marvel’s ‘Black Panther’ proves why Afro futurism matters

Black Panther is historic on each level. It’s a superhuman film that is more quick-witted and more important than anything from Marvel yet. It’s a blockbuster activity motion picture composed, coordinated by and featuring dark specialists. What’s more, Black Panther likewise happens to be the purest articulation of Afrofuturism – sci-fi and dream that mirrors the African diaspora – to hit silver screens far and wide. Finally.

Regardless of whether you haven’t heard the term Afrofuturism previously, you’ve unquestionably observed cases of it. It was authored by culture commentator Mark Dery in a 1993 paper, Black to the Future (accessible in the compilation Flame Wars: The Discourse of Cyberculture).

More on Engadget