By: Hana Saada
ALGIERS– The film Wakanda Forever 2022, produced by the American cinema box Black Panther and distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures, exposes the atrocities of the French army in Africa, qualifying the French soldiers as evil mercenaries who operate in Mali.
The film, directed by Ryan Coogler, portrays Wakanda as an independent African nation resisting the grasp of colonizers hungry for its natural resources.
As a reaction, the French authorities react timidly to the second installment of the Marvel Studios Blockbuster Black Panther, contrary to their attacks targeting the Wagner Group.
“I strongly condemn this false and misleading representation of our armed forces” wrote Sébastien Lecornu French Minister for the Armed Forces.
In the franchise’s second installment, which was released in France in November 2022, the people of Wakanda – a fictional African country – are trying to protect the nation’s resources from foreign powers. During the movie, a group of mercenaries is caught stealing resources belonging to Wakanda.
The defense minister’s reaction comes after a French journalist on Saturday pointed out the similarities between the camouflage uniforms of those mercenaries in the movie and those of the French troops who operated in Mali for almost ten years.