From All Africa -The movie, Black Panther, premiered two weeks ago and it has been on every movie goer's lips. It has had different interpretations. In Uganda's case, it is because of one of the main actors whose parents are migrants from Uganda. However, for Rev Canon Benjamin Twinamaani, a rector at Grace Episcopal Church in America, the movie has a spiritual connotation.
"I took three hours of my day and took a trip to the African kingdom of Wakanda in the new movie Black Panther (even though there are no Panthers in Africa, just their cousins the leopards). Here are my impressions as a theologian and an African living in the Diaspora.
Remember this is a comic book story from the 1960s and 1970s that created a super hero of African descent to join the ranks of White male only Superman and Spiderman.
The audience was 90 per cent plus mellennials. All races, both genders. This tells you the power of mythical stories with this generation. To know your young people will find a way to make significant impact and change in the world, but without personal suffering.
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