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I need to shut up about black panther but if Wakanda is "a reimagining of what would have been possible if Africa had been allowed to realize itself for itself" as Lupita says, then the myth of Wakanda also invites us to change how we think about history.
If we can imagine that Africa uncolonized and unconquered could by now have reached technological heights higher than the West has, we can free ourselves of the notion that white folks conquered the world due to any kind of superiority, biological, cultural, technological, etc.
Aside from and contrary two the enforced Christian narrative, Europe's victory over the world is historically contingent. It could have been another way.
"What if West Africans had successfully waged biological warfare on would-be European colonizers as the colonizers did to Native Americans" is as valid a question as, say, "what if Rome had developed an industrial revolution"
And both hypotheticals open the door to countless possible worlds, both better and worse than our own. Wakandas and nuclear winters and luxury gay space communism and climate apocalypse.
Anything could have happened, and the fact that what happened did happen is much more down to uncontrollable contingencies than to human endeavor, individual or collective.
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