With the release of Marvel's "Black Panther" film, historian Thomas F. McDow explores the real historical origins of the fictional country of Wakanda and its roots in a Cold War crisis and an African mine.

An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/searching-wakanda-african-roots-black-panther-story

With the release of Marvel's "Black Panther" film, historian Thomas F. McDow explores the real historical origins of the fictional country of Wakanda and its roots in a Cold War crisis and an African mine. An in-text version of this episode can be found at: https://origins.osu.edu/connecting-history/searching-wakanda-african-roots-black-panther-story

Searching for Wakanda: The African Roots of the Black Panther Story

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