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28th March – Around the World in 8 Sundays [Africa]
It’s the final Around the Sundays theme and our Seriously Geeky Sundays ship has reached its final destination; Africa!
What is your favourite fandom set in Africa?
Marvel’s Black Panther (Wakanda forever!) and Stargate (1994 film). I talk about Stargate in another question, so I’ll focus on Black Panther. I loved everything about it right down to the costumes and sets. It captivated me because it was so imaginative and had a cast of well written (and acted!) characters. And can we give the wintery Jabari tribe some love? Goodness, as I’m searching for clips, I’m remembering every single thing I absolutely adore about the movie!
Who are your favourite fictional African characters?
T’Challa – He first appeared in Captain America: Civil War, and he was immediately one of my favorite MCU characters ever to appear on screen. MCU hero rankings:
- Captain America
- T’Challa
- The Scarlet Witch
Africa is a popular setting for video games; have you played any of them?
It’s been forever and a day since I’ve had time to indulge in a good game. I had to take a detour around memory lane for this one, and sadly, I’m coming up short! Maybe this is a sign to get back into gaming because the only games I can think of are old SNES games based off of Stargate and The Lion King (I LOVED those games, by the way!)
We’ve been exploring fictional countries with this series and there are more fictional countries attributed to Africa than any other continent. What are your thoughts on this?
I don’t have any thoughts on it because I don’t think I’ve read many books with fictional African nations. I wish Wakanda was real, does that count? 😉
Africa is home to Egypt and ancient Egypt has been given the pop-culture treatment many times. Which has been your favourite?
Ancient Egypt, the obsession of my teenage years! Oh where, oh where, do I even begin? If something even remotely mentioned ancient Egypt, I raced to consume it! Out of all my favorite things featuring ancient Egypt, none captured my imagination like Stargate (1994 film)
To say that I was obsessed with this movie would be the understatement of last century. I drew what seemed like a million pieces of fanart for it, made up stories about it with my childhood best friend, and pretended I was an Egyptian goddess when I felt like it. There is much more to this list, but for brevity’s sake, I’m ending it there. Ya’ll have no idea how obsessed with this movie I was. High Castle is the closest thing to my teenage years of Stargate love (just to give you a glimpse into what levels of obsession we’re talking about here!). This is barely the tip of the iceberg, ha ha!
I think I still have my Kurt Russell binder with my teenage self’s magnum opus of Stargate fan fiction somewhere.
And for some fun trivia, did you know there was a book series based off of the movie? I read all of them (there is no way my younger self was NOT going to).
- Stargate: Rebellion (October 1995)
- Stargate: Retaliation (September 1996)
- Stargate: Retribution (October 1997)
- Stargate: Reconnaissance (May 1998)
- Stargate: Resistance (October 1999)
Another fun fact! The original movie was supposed to be the first in a trilogy. It’s been a project that has been off and on over the years (I’ve longed given up hope for it).
