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So I finally watched Black Panther... I enjoyed it though it's not really my genre... Totally worth the watch!
"Don't scare me like that, colonizer!"... I died...
I saw dem Azande shields! The pattern is almost the same as one of our own, lol!
Of course, as an Africanist, I have my pet peeves. As a huge mashup of everything African, from North, South, East to West, they still managed to underrepresent African art and culture... lol. For example in the museum:
The "Edo Mask" from Nigeria looks absolutely hideous compared to the real Edo Mask it was modeled after:
There is no such thing as the "Bobo Ashanti tribe" from Ghana. "Bobo Ashanti" is an order, or mansion in the Rastafarian movement. The Ghanaian tribe is simply known as "Ashanti" or "Asante". They're not known for their mask-making either, but of course there are exceptions, and the golden mask of the Asantehene (King/Emperor of Ashanti) Kofi Karikari is the most well known metal mask from Ashanti. Note the striking difference between the rather hideous Ashanti metal mask in Black Panther:
Many more examples like that, but what can you expect from Hollywood
Anyway, good movie!