Nigeria: Up From Wakanda

The movie, Wakanda has become the latest rallying point for an exasperated black race. The euphoric success of the box office hit has made recommendations to watch it as imperative as a doctor's prescription to a dying patient. It is the latest quest in the search by the African race for redemption.

This search for redemption began the moment the black man was forced into ships across the seas in shackles and manacles. Even with padlocks in their mouths, it did not die on the sugarcane plantations neither did it evaporate at the seas where packed like sandiness, the weak and the dead were tossed overboard. It was not killed through the Jim Crow era. Rather, the movement peaked in the early 60s finding voice in the mouths and activism of Martin Luther King and El Hadj Malik el Shabbaz a.k.a Malcolm X.

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