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What an Afrofuturist world looks like

When the first mainstream black superhero stepped onto the ‘60s comics scene, there was no word to describe the subgenre of storytelling he represented. Decades later, the highly anticipated “Black Panther” film is being called Afrofuturist. Its depiction of Wakanda, a hidden fictitious African nation without a colonial past, is especially...

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