The Black Panther Phenomenon emerged at the nexus of Black speculative, Afrofuturism studies, African Esoteric Studies, and the Black spatial imagination. This phenomenon is emerging at a unique moment in world history when the world order has been slowly shifting from a unipolar to multipolar framework since the late 20th century but accelerated since the 2008 economic collapse and further since the beginning of the war between Russia and Ukraine. The accelerating pace of change and the accompanying existential impact of the social change and technology is interacting with the changing geopolitical landscape to produce every growing array of art and aesthetics reflecting the emerging world order.
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