Having grossed over $400 million in 4 days – against a $200 million budget – the Black Panther movie has already become a resounding success. It has also started breaking records, as its domestic opening weekend of $201.8 million is the biggest debut for a movie by an African American director, and the fifth-highest opening weekend of all time.

The movie is a lot of things to a lot of people, but to many Africans, it is their customs and traditions come to life in the big fictional screen. We have therefore curated some tribes, traditions, customs and cultures that are featured in the fictional world of Wakanda, and the Black Panther movie.

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1. Dora Milaje – Benin Republic
The Dora Milaje is partially based on a women army called the Dahomey Ahosi (Amazons). These fierce women were once considered the most feared women in the world, and they fought for the kingdom of Dahomey – present day Republic of Benin.

Legend has it that when the French defeated Dahomey – back when it was cool for European countries to colonize any African country they fancied – they took some of the Dahomey Amazons to their tents as spoils of war. At night, when they were spent, the women would wake up and bite their throats off. The French stopped taking Dahomey women

2. Xhosa – Southern Africa
The language spoken in Wakanda is Xhosa, a language spoken by over 19 million people in Southern Africa.

3. Hausa Language – Nigeria
The #BringBackOurGirls movement is one of the most popular movements to emerge from Nigeria, and incidents leading to it were loosely reincarnated in Black Panther. In a scene typical of Boko-Haram kidnapping young girls, Lupita speaks Hausa Language to girls kidnapped by the terrorists in Sambisa forest, Borno State.

4. Lip Plates – Ethiopia
Also known as a lip plug or lip disc, lip plates are a form of body modification where increasingly large discs are inserted into a pierced hole in either the upper or lower lip, thereby stretching it.

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