Mara's Classics; 1 Year and Counting 🌟💙

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"Pass through the school, and let the school pass through you." These were the words that started me off on a long, really long journey in my writing career. You see, I've been writing before, since I picked up a notebook as a little girl and scrawled, "Adanna the stubborn girl." Time flew by and I was already writing factious history on African colonization. Then... I got admission to study in the University of Nigeria, Nsukka. At first, I thought, this is the end of my writing career, but I was inspired by my Muse Giver to "write, write, write!" Here I am, one year later, writing. It's been a beautiful journey. It began on Feb 16, with...! TWELVE DAYS TO VALENTINE Read It was Valentine. My sis wanted us to celebrate so she dragged me (literally) to a Valentine Music Special. It was what I needed to breathe life to my Muse. Twelve Days to Valentine was inspired by the university culture which I was still new to. I loved the environment and kep
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BLACK PANTHER; A REVIEW

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I remember sitting in my classroom sometime in 2018 listening to my classmates who were Marvel fans talking about Marvel's latest enterprise.

That wasn't surprising. Everyone was buzzing about Black Panther.

Except me. 😒

As if the curiosity of what this movie was about wasn't enough, my family starts talking about it 😫

Then I grabbed an opportunity that would change my life forever...

I watched Black Panther. 😌

What words are there to express the excitement of seeing Marvel's logo?

What curiosity on witnessing T'Chaka's first scene!

Then the fight scene in Sambisa forest with T'Chala and Okoye? Legendary!

As the reels turn, we get exposed to an imaginary African race (I thought they were real 😩) that is about to crown its newest king, our king, T'Chala.

From the beginning to the end, you'll agree with me that Chadwick Boseman's role as T'Chala was well picked. The interesting thing about it is that Chad never had to audition for the role. Marvel chose him!

What an honour 🤯

Marvel has many other super heroes that we love; Captain America, Iron Man, Hulk, Thor (Strongest avenger 🥲) but Black Panther just wins first place in our hearts.

First of all, it uplifts and presents Africa and its culture as something beyond barbaric. It showed *Africa* to the world!

It was Marvel trying to tell everyone that we have something they don't. Not just vibranium, but melanin 🤴🏿

So kudos to the African race. Be proud and stand tall.

Another trait of Black Panther is its costumes and graphic displays. Marvel's make up and costume crew really took it to the next level with the outfits. The movie even won an award for it.

Talking about awards, Black Panther is Marvel's most successful production at the Oscars.

Fun fact. The story line of Black Panther was initially a "James Bond defeats the bad guys desturbing his kingdom." One of those bad guys would have been a Spider Man villain.

Due to circumstances (which we are grateful for) Ryan Coogle, the director, had to rewrite the plot. Don't know how the first would have turned out, but I love Black Panther as it is.

Coogle as director brought us characters like Michael B. Jordan (Eric Killmonger) and Danai Gurira (Okoye, head of the Dora Milaje)

Remember the part where Killmonger shocks T'Chala by yelling back in his own language? While T'Chala's wondering how Killmonger can speak it, I'm wondering what language that is.

The cast use a number of African languages. The major language however was Xhosa, a South African language that was spoken by Nelson Mandela.

Black Panther broke waves in movie theatres. Even Saudi Arabia had to lift its 30 years ban on theatres to let T'Chala touchdown in his vibranium powered aircraft.

Black Panther is loved and appreciated to this day not just for the adventures it gave us, but also for the legacy it gave Chadwick Boseman. His reputation as actor and king was so dear Marvel positively refused to recast him at his demise.

Thus, Black Panther 2 began with the mourning cry of Wakanda.

Although he left us before he could receive full credit for his legendary role, he will be remembered so long as we keep up the chant,

WAKANDA FOREVER! 🙅🏿‍♀️🙅🏿‍♂️

He lives on...


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  1. AnonymousJuly 9, 2023 at 5:10 AM

    You're very good at what you do , keep it up I'm impressed

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