Open in app
Home
Notifications
Lists
Stories

Write
LEVEL

Home
About
Race
Culture
Politics
Life
Relationships
Only Black Guy in the Office
The Best of LEVEL
Abolition for the People
Just Rankin' Sh!t
African

in LEVEL

More on Medium

Teju Cole

Teju Cole

·Mar 6, 2018

On the Blackness of the Panther

‘In my wildest dreams, there is no king. I killed the king. The king is dead. All power to the people.’ — I began to become African a little over twenty-five years ago. That was when I left Nigeria and moved to the US. I had been born in the US in the summer of 1975 and had been taken to Nigeria in the fall of the same year. For the next…

Marvel

17 min read

On the Blackness of the Panther
On the Blackness of the Panther
LEVEL

Higher Learning. A publication from Medium for the interested man.

Connect with LEVEL

Editors

LEVEL Editors

LEVEL Editors

https://level.medium.com/

Carly Rose Gillis

Carly Rose Gillis

creator ops @Medium

Scott Lamb

Scott Lamb

vp, creator relations @ medium

Sign up for Minority Report

By LEVEL

A weekly newsletter that dives into cultural news in need of a strong opinion. Take a look.

By signing up, you will create a Medium account if you don’t already have one. Review our Privacy Policy for more information about our privacy practices.

Medium sent you an email at to complete your subscription.

Help

Status

Writers

Blog

Careers

Privacy

Terms

About

Knowable