On Sunday night, Marvel's Black Panther movie won the Oscar for three of its six Academy Award nominations,

Ludwig Gorensen for the original score, which you're hearing now, along with Ruth E. Carter for Best Costume Design,

and Hannah Beechler and J.R. Hart for Best Production Design.

Just a few of the artists who help bring Wakanda,

the Black Panther's mythical homeland, to life.

It seemed so real that shortly after the film debuted,

British tourists reportedly searched the travel

booking site Kiwi.com for flights to the fictional nation. Trevor Noah, the South African host of

The Daily Show, riffed on this longing for a real Wakanda on stage at the Academy Awards.

Growing up as a young boy in Wakanda, I would see King Tchala flying over our village,

and he would remind me of a great Possa phrase.

Abelugu, Abayas, Bandia, which means in times like these,

we are stronger when we fight together than when we try to fight apart.

That phrase, it turns out, actually translates to white people don't know I'm lying.

Black Panther and Wakanda, conceived by Marvel comic Stan Lee and Jack Kirby in the 60s,

have lately been refrained and reimagined.

In 2016 and 17, comic book updates from authors

Tanahisi Coates and Roxanne Gay explored the Black Panther universe in the context of

modern social and political struggle. In Ryan Coogler's 2018 film, Wakanda comes under attack when intruders

catch wind of the nation's access to vast reserves of vibranium, the world's hardest

metal because it absorbs sound waves and kinetic energy and more.

Tell me something.

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