Lagos | Black Panther fantasy inspires fantasy literature - ZAM
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The success of the film Black Panther was a sensation and also made the star of the Nigerian-American science fiction author Nnedi Okorafor rise.
(…) Roye Okupe: “I once tried to sell a story idea with a black superhero in Hollywood. The first thing the producer said: you have to change the skin colour of your hero.”
After the success of Black Panther, the blockbuster, it all changed: all of a sudden there is a demand for scripts with black characters, preferably written by black authors, all three panellists say.
(…) Okorafor: “But not all Afrofuturism is elitist. In my novel Binti, a girl from the Himba, a people in Namibia, plays the main role: how she breaks away from her environment and attends the best university in the universe.”
