As someone who teaches and writes about Afrofuturism, I've been eagerly awaiting the release of "Black Panther: Wakanda Forever." I'm particularly excited about the introduction of Namor and the hidden kingdom of Talokan, which he leads.
The first "Black Panther" film adhered to a longstanding practice in Afrofuturist stories and art by engaging in what I call "acts of recovery" – the process of reviving and celebrating elements of Black culture that were destroyed or suppressed by colonization. This practice is often linked to "Sankofa," an African word from the Akan tribe in Ghana that roughly translates to "it is not taboo to fetch what is at risk of being left behind."
