Spotlight On...BLACK PANTHER (R.I.P. Chadwick Boseman)

[Monolith]

For Chadwick Boseman. He never yielded.

Today we Spotlight the BLACK PANTHER.

[Aeon]

Thank you so much for this honoring.

[elixir86]

Thank you guys, it really means a lot.

[WorldWideWade]

So unexpected and such a blow to everybody that was a fan of the fantastic actor.

I can't believe you had such a massive spotlight ready to go. Even Mono couldn't have written this whole thing so quickly, right? Thanks for the hard work and for honoring such a great actor.

[Douglas Mangum]

This has been in the queue for for many months, though not completely finished until this afternoon. in fact, it's not even completely finished as I type this.

We were contemplating building an event around it and I had advocated releasing it in waves, much like we did the Wolverine Spotlight many years ago. However, even that was not yet decided. After the horrible news of last night, Monolith and I put the final touches on it this morning/afternoon and... to the presses. As Monolith said in an e-mail to me and Dean... "It just felt right."

[Monolith]

The Black Panther Spotlight was originally intended as part of the MightyAvengers.Net launch, but I couldn't get it done in time on top of all the other scheduled projects.

I finally finished it and submitted it to Douglas for editing and images some time ago. The plan was to wait until Ta-Nehisi Coates finished his run on Black Panther with (7th series) #25 as a nice stopping point, and release it then.

Then issue #22 came out. Then the pandemic came, and the end of Coates' run has been delayed considerably.

With the tragic news last night, I slept on the idea of releasing it anyway right now. It just felt right. Dean and Douglas were quick to agree when I proposed the idea, and we spent the morning trying to get it ready for release.

The Spotlight isn't perfect. The Bio just kind of stops at the moment, and, um...don't look too closely at the Issue Checklist, please? There will be a few edits over the following days.

There isn't much we can do when something like this happens, but I hope this reaches people in a way that helps.

[Spectral Knight]

Lovely touch guys; what a cracking tribute!

Definitely one to read over the next few days - shall we hold fire on mentioning any typos / edits for a week or so

[Monolith]

No, by all means, give us a heads-up.

[quiof]

This spotlight is very good, although some things could be updated, lately, I have been collaborating with Appendix, mainly on Black Panther and Shang-Chi entries.


About Azzari, I think it was the first place the spelling T'Chanda appeared. Marvel took a while to resolve this confusion, with some sites like Comic Book Religion thinking it was a maternal grandfather.
The grandfather was spelled as Azzuri and Azzaria (Coates). The animated series Avengers Assemble used T'Chanda. The Marvel website registered Azzuri, Azzari, Chanda and Azzaria as aliases. The issue was resolved in (History of the Black Panther Annotations published Wakanda #5 (April, 2023), it is revealed that T'Chanda is his birth name and Azzuri his royal name. Thomas may have based this on In Jungle Action Vol 2 #19, which says that T in T'Challa is silent, although in adaptations, it is pronounced.


https://www.marvel.com/characters/black ... i-the-wise
Regarding Wakanda mythology, I post updates about Bast in the Appendix:
http://www.marvunapp.com/Appendix/bast.htm

The text says that "The Orisha were implicated as powerful mortal beings instead of Gods from their conception. They found a way to tap into the faith of their countrymen, arising to become Gods thanks to this devotion." This may have been Coates' idea, I don't know if he knew, but Marvel Atlas #2 says that Yoruba is one of the official languages ​​of Wakanda, which could indicate the use of the term.


The pantheon has as members Bast, Thoth, Ptah, Mujaji and Kokou. Kokou is in fact a war orisha in Benin, while Mujaji may be inspired by the rain queens of South Africa, perhaps she and Storm as Hadari Yao are still in this concept of humans who became gods. Black Panther: Blood Hunt establishes that during the first Blasphemy, Varnae wanted to steal Vibranium from the Fires of Ptah, so an alliance arose between the Orishas (Gods of West Africa) and Gods of Egypt. Khonshu who met with Bast, Eshu, Gherke (gorilla god of the Jabari), and Ptah, at one point, Eshu calls Ptah Ptah-Ogun, both are comparative gods and are classified as Smithing deity. More recently, in the Miles Morales series post-Blood Hunt, Bast and Anansi are said to be siblings (although Bast has been stated to be the granddaughter of Gaea and Anansi, the son). Among the Originators, there was an arachnoid race called the Anansi, however, nothing has been said about whether there is any connection between the race and the trickster god. In Karama Horne's Black Panther: Protectors of Wakanda, kinships are revealed, as well as the races of two-headed beings named as ibeji (like the twin orishas) and the aquatic ones are called Children of Olokun (another orisha). The Vanyan race descends from the gorilla god Gherke and Simbi from the god Set. Other gods have appeared, such as the rivals K'liluna, the traitor (Bast's sister) in the miniseries Killmonger and Magba in the one-shot Black Panther: Unconquerer.

[quiof]

I forgot about Mosi and Bashenga. Avengers 100000 BC should be a What If, now they consider that the meteor fall was in 100000 BC.

In the Spider-Man Human Torch miniseries, a Headdress of T'Chambwe is shown in the Wakanda embassy, it is said that T'Chambwe was "first chieftain and ruler of Wakanda, this name is mentioned only from the miniseries, since Jack Kirby's Black Panther Vol 1 it is established that the tribes were gathered by Bashenga, leader of the Panther Tribe first Black Panther. However, retcons changed the story a bit, Marauders #3 showed Olumọ, Knower and later in "History of the Black Panthers - Chapter One: Creation Myth by Evan Narcisse and Natasha Bustos from Wakanda #1 confirms that the full name was Olumo Bashenga.


Olumo was certainly inspired by the Olumo Rock mountain in Nigeria, Olumo means "molded by god" in Yoruba (one of the official languages of Wakanda, maybe that's why the pantheon is called The Orisha).


I did a search for an etymology for "T'Chambwe" and I didn't find it, I found "Chambwe" as a surname to the name of a village in Malawi.

Here is a list of Chambwe surnames around the world.
https://forebears.io/surnames/chambwe