MediaMagazine Black Panther/Afrofuturism article summary hw task

 The article I read spoke about the effects of colonialism, and how it still affects African countries today. It also covered the modern movement of Afrofuturism and how it is presented in modern black media. The article used the 2018 blockbuster movie, Black Panther as an example of how afrofuturism as a cultural aesthetic has started to infiltrate mainstream media. The fictional African country of Wakanda in which the film is set was never colonised, and as a result, became the most technologically advanced country on the planet. The film had a post-colonial aim to represent black characters and stories in a more positive light, empowering black audiences, particularly older ones who were used to seeing the negative representations of black people in older colonial media.