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bp1.pptxBlack Panther Avengers of the New World
Discussion and brief overview
Thoughts and reflections
Please take a few minutes in your journal to free write your reflections on Black Panther: Avengers of the New World
You can write about…
-What stood out to you in the text about the characters and this vision of Wakanda.
-The twist of the Gods and creatures of the world (Orisha, The Originators)
Approach of the authors and illustrators - Coates, Torres, Sprouse and Martin
Pan-Africanism: the idea that peoples of African descent have common interests and should be unified. Historically, Pan-Africanism has often taken the shape of a political or cultural movement. (From Britannica)
Writing with a Pan-Africanist approach, Ta-Nehisi Coates and the illustrators set out to create a unified approach to Wakanda, it’s ancestors and tribes after it’s civil war.
Clip – Ta-Nehisi Coates
Before Avengers of the New World – book 4
A Wakanda Shaman (Tetu)
Led a civil war to destroy Ta’Challa’s leadership, the lineage of the Black Panther and the Orisha Gods. Had the support of the poor, mistreated in Wakanda and outside forces. Ta’Challa, his allies and the Ancestors defeated Tetu. Afterwards, Ta’Challa installed a democratic council to share power in Wakanda
The Originators What does a culture do when their Gods abandon them and the old world returns to stake it’s claim?
The Anansi, the spider people
Unnamed two-headed men
Vanyan, ape-like creatures
Creeping Doom, the insect creatures
This information is not revealed until the next book
In the Black Panther series. In this myth, the Originators
(the creatures above) were the first beings on the land
that eventually became Wakanda. When the five tribes settled on Wakanda, they lived in peace before war broke out. Led by the panther Goddess Bast, the Orisha imprisoned the Originators in an alternate dimension.
Ororo Munroe or Storm
Does Ta’Challa have the loyalty of Storm or does he depend on her as a living Goddess?
How do the citizens of Wakanda view Ororo Munrow
God comparisons
Egyptian mythology – Bast or Bastet
Thoth
Writing, magic, wisdom
Ptah
Craftsmen, artisans. Creator
Of the universe in Memphisian origin myths
Kokou
God of War in Benin myth – a Yoruba God
