Imperialism In Black Panthers

I believe that the movie Black Panther represents Africa today and in the future. Seeing the movie, I am not normally one to watch these types of movies and honestly, I am glad that I did. Wakanda is where this movie takes place, and it show us a lot of things that we were to never really think were around anywhere in the world, especially Africa. “Wakanda shows how Africa might have developed in the absence of colonialism and the slave trade.” “Wakanda was known to be independent, strong, wealthy, peaceful which was easy to show how slavery and imperialism harmed Africa.” In the Black Panther, we see a lot of new and high-end technology. So, we wonder if this technology is in present day Africa, or if it is in the future. Well as we want to know, this is what Africa is like in certain ways, but some ways are what the future is going to hold. The movie wanted to portray that “Africans were intellectually inferior and incapable of governing themselves.” Africa didn’t really follow the steps like the rest of the world when it came to technology, they just went from one extreme to the next, hoping or the best. Which they were lucky enough to do …show more content…
There are things that are kept from a majority of the world so that another person doesn’t try to “steal” the idea and make it their own and maybe better than what the original is supposed to be. Africa today, tries to live outside of their norm because they were targeted a lot for being too about themselves, and they wanted to try to be better and couldn’t because they were always attacked with slavery, and looked at a different