{"id":1827,"date":"2018-03-05T10:57:45","date_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1827"},"modified":"2018-03-05T10:57:45","modified_gmt":"2018-03-05T10:57:45","slug":"wakanda-afrofuturism-and-decolonizing-international-relations-scholarship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1827","title":{"rendered":"Wakanda, Afrofuturism, and Decolonizing International Relations Scholarship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>As the highly-anticipated film Black Panther is released in cinemas, Yolande Bouka discusses Afrofuturism tugs firmly on black memory, recalling the role of Africans in contemporary International Relations.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Next week, Marvel Studios will release one of its most anticipated films in the studio\u2019s ten-year history.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/m\/black_panther_2018\/\"><em>Black Panther<\/em><\/a>, set in the fictional\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/marvel.com\/universe\/Wakanda#axzz56IzEW6ll\">Wakanda<\/a>, a vibranium resource-rich and technologically advanced African country, has\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/2018\/02\/02\/media\/black-panther-fandango-ticket-sales\/index.html\">shattered records<\/a>\u00a0by selling more advance tickets than any previous superhero movie. Part of\u00a0<em>Black Panther<\/em>\u2019s success can be attributed in part to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theshadowleague.com\/story\/the-cultural-significance-of-marvel-s-the-black-panther\">expansion<\/a>\u00a0of Marvel\u2019s Black fan base. Black people around the world\u2013most of whom are not traditional Marvel fans\u2013have put their whole weight behind the film. While Marvel\u2019s Comic Universe has featured superheroes of color for decades now, the release of\u00a0<em>Black Panther<\/em>\u00a0in Marvel\u2019s Cinematic Universe breaks new ground in the cinematographic comic industry.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/africaatlse\/2018\/02\/12\/wakanda-afrofuturism-and-decolonizing-international-relations-scholarship\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Article originally published on <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.lse.ac.uk\/africaatlse\/2018\/02\/12\/wakanda-afrofuturism-and-decolonizing-international-relations-scholarship\/\">Africa at LSE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As the highly-anticipated film Black Panther is released in cinemas, Yolande Bouka discusses Afrofuturism tugs firmly on black memory, recalling the role of Africans in contemporary International Relations.\u00a0 Next week, Marvel Studios will release one of its most anticipated films &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/?p=1827\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[477,478],"class_list":["post-1827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","tag-decolonising-knowledge","tag-international-relations"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1827"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1828,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1827\/revisions\/1828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/francophone.port.ac.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}