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In 1909, Teddy Roosevelt visited an African nation that changed some of his long-held views. Minus the vibranium, it might have stood as an inspiration for the Wakanda of Marvel Comics fame.

The Real Wakanda: How an East African Kingdom Changed Theodore Roosevelt and the Course of American Democracy

The fictional kingdom portrayed in the Marvel cinematic universe has a real-life antecedent — and its legacy reverberates throughout American and European history.

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Now that was a good read! (thanks!)

At the party’s national convention in Chicago, Roosevelt came out swinging, lambasting the Republican and Democratic Parties’ positions on race. “For many years the attitude of the Democratic Party towards the colored man has been one of brutality,” exclaimed Roosevelt, “and the attitude of the Republican Party towards him one of hypocrisy. One party [Democrats] has brutally denied him, not only his rights, but all hope of ever being treated aright; the other [Republicans] has hypocritically pretended to be zealous for his rights, but has acted only in ways that did him harm and not good.”