His death on Friday following a four-year battle with colon cancer underscored the 43-year-old actor’s global cultural impact. ADThe ongoing legacy of European colonization of the continent remained a constant thread throughout the movie’s narrative. Boseman told the Hollywood Reporter in 2018 that Marvel was initially concerned that viewers would find an African accent confusing. It touches everyone,” Elias Abraha, a theater manager in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, told The Washington Post after the movie’s debut. Veteran South African actor John Kani, who played Boseman’s father in “Black Panther,” told South African media on Saturday that Boseman was a courageous actor whom he considered like a son.

Source: Washington Post August 29, 2020 20:58 UTC