SOUTH AFRICA
The Wakanda Effect
From reading Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to Freedom in high-school, to participating in divestment protests in college, to the shout outs to freedom fighters like Steven Biko and Winnie Mandela in hip-hop songs—many Americans learned the name of Mandela’s South African township, Soweto, as kids. There’s something incredibly powerful about visiting these locations in real life. Stop at Apartheid Museum (ApartheidMuseum.org) in Johannesburg to learn more about that era of South African history.
South Africa is currently reaping the benefits of the “Wakanda Effect,” via the popularity of . Although very little of the footage was shot in South Africa, much of
