- Title
- Whose Wakanda is it anyway? A reception analysis of Black Panther among young black urban Africans
- Creator
- Muzenda, Makomborero
- ThesisAdvisor
- Steenveld, Lynette
- Subject
- Motion picture audiences
- Subject
- Youth, Black -- Africa -- Attitudes
- Subject
- Popular culture – Africa
- Subject
- Motion pictures -- Social aspects
- Subject
- Youth, Black -- Race identity -- Africa
- Subject
- Identity politics in motion pictures
- Subject
- Identity (Psychology) and mass media
- Subject
- Mass media and youth -- Africa
- Subject
- Mass media and culture -- Africa
- Subject
- Mass media -- Social aspects -- Africa
- Subject
- Postcolonialism and the arts
- Subject
- Representation (Philosophy)
- Subject
- Black Panther (Motion picture : 2018) -- History and criticism
- Date
- 2020
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/144311
- Identifier
- vital:38330
- Description
- As a writer and as an academic, I have long been interested in young black Africans. As a demographic group, we are heralded as the future of Africa and a vital resource, but not much is known about us, what we think, and how we make sense of things. As an African youth myself, I know that we are a diverse group with different backgrounds, perspectives and beliefs. I am interested in exploring our identities, how we express ourselves and how we make sense of ourselves, each other, the continent and the world. I want to learn more about how we see the world, and what we think of how media narratives and messages represent us. This research project is an extension of this personal curiosity. It focuses on Black Panther, a film that received particularly strong responses from young black Africans. I want to explore why this film in particular prompted such a strong reaction, and what the imagining of an uncolonised, technologically advanced African nation that Black Panther offers means for the young black Africans born after the official end of apartheid and colonisation.
- Format
- 79 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University, Faculty of Humanities, Journalism and Media Studies
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Muzenda, Makomborero
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