The Importance of African Comic Book Heroes

The Importance of African Comic Book Heroes

The Importance of African Comic Book Heroes

I don’t know too many people who were not comic book fans growing up. These fantastic reads provided allowed us to peer into the depths of make-believe, while teaching us valuable lessons along the way. Remember, “With great power, comes great responsibility.” This is why we are reposting an oldie but a goodie, and one of our well received episodes, The Importance of African Comic Book Heroes.

The first of its kind on the network, our attempt was to provide our viewers the backstory of some of our favourite and lesser known characters, and their introduction into pop-culture life.

As always, art imitates life and you will see this throughout some of the characters story. Both Black Panther and John Stewart’s, Green Lantern battle the KKK. We take a look at how drug infested neighbourhoods affected characters like Black Lightning and Cloak from Cloak and Dagger. We will divulge into Nubia, Wonder Woman’s sister. Yes, Wonder Woman has a sister. And it’s a shame what they did to her.

Luke Cage, Sam “Falcon” Wilson, and a few more make our list.

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We would like to thank author Adilifu Nama and his book, Super Black. For providing so much needed reference that was used throughout the episode.

Super Black

 

One thing that can not be denied when watching this, The Importance of African Comic Book Heroes is a subject that needs to be reviewed. For it’s impact has been truly inspirational. We must continue to share these stories.

Editor’s Note: This show was our first show that reached over 1k viewers on YouTube. It also allowed us to set the bar for follow up shows, which came after.  

Click here to watch Part 2. In Part 3 of our African Comic Book Heroes, we focused on our Super Villains. This was a real treat. For the last part of our series, we had Comic Book creator and CEO of Black Sun Comics, Kelvin Nyeusi Mawazo speak on Afro-Futurism in Comics.