Ryan Coogler has said he spent months studying the work of Ousmane Sembène — the Senegalese filmmaker who spent his career insisting African stories deserved their own visual language rather than a borrowed European one — before designing Wakanda's aesthetic. Sembène made his first film in 1963. He called himself the father of African cinema. Black Girl and Touki Bouki — Djibril Diop Mambéty's visionary 1973 film — are the real Wakanda.
Films That Influenced Black Panther
