The new movie Black Panther is a runaway box office smash (at least here in the US...) African-Americans especially have embraced the film's vision of a powerful, technologically advanced African utopia called Wakanda.

Black Panther's fictional nation is based on Uganda — where I spent a month doing mission work. That gives me a special perspective on the values espoused in this film...

By the way, many are lauding Black Panther as an anti-Trump movie, but ironically, the ethno-state philosophy espoused by Wakanda's leaders is dangerously nationalistic: Rather than ushering in a pan-African paradise, this same worldview has led to the slaughter of millions of Africans by their neighbouring countrymen.