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

History Talk, the history podcast from Origins: Current Events in Historical Perspective

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