The real-life city of Wauconda, Illinois, just became self-aware to celebrate the release of Black Panther. Ryan Coogler’s film is a standout in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, not just due to its memorable characters and thrilling story, but also the fact that it takes place almost entirely in the fictional African nation of Wakanda. Aside from a few scenes in Oakland, London, and Busan, the vast majority of Black Panther’s story takes place in various locations in T’Challa’s (Chadwick Boseman) home country.
Visually, Wakanda is depicted as a lush, technologically-advanced utopia hidden beneath the guise of third-world squalor. Politically, Wakanda is an isolationist nation that uses this facade in part to ...
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