The Marvel universe created an entire fictional domain known as the "Kingdom of Wakanda" ruled by T'Challa the Black Panther. What if Wakanda was real though? How could we break down the core attributes of the country's domain, landscape, culture and diplomacy? In this video I try my best to break it down. What do you think? ( Oh, and 10 points for every #Beetlegate2018 person creeping in to the comments of this video, just watch lol)

@coolcool6676

6 жыл бұрын

ur the best

@lastly4611

6 жыл бұрын

Geography Now ..

@CartoonNetworkGlitches

6 жыл бұрын

Hi

@hemag3895

6 жыл бұрын

Geography Now, sorry for saying this twice, but is it too late to help you on the Lebanon episode (btw, we don’t really have a best friend, since it depends on the people groups)

@buenaventuralosgrandes9266

6 жыл бұрын

in 2:19 you can see some dead meme speciment known as ugandan knuckles

Watching this after Chadwick Boseman death RIP king 💔

@munirayusuf2301

3 жыл бұрын

ME TOO FINALLY SOMEONE SAID IT I REALLY MISS CHADWICK BOSEMAN SO MUCH

@jason_gamez5966

3 жыл бұрын

RIP Chadwic Boseman

@goldenkillzz7425

3 жыл бұрын

Rip may he rest in peace

@skylerlove7381

3 жыл бұрын

RIP

@why3065

3 жыл бұрын

Rip

hey I just had an idea, you should do a series called geography then, where you talk about countries that don't exist anymore like the roman empire, or the U.S.S.R. I dunno, just a thought

@tomek10m

6 жыл бұрын

Excellent idea! But there are so many of former countries that it might be difficult to set them in alphabetical order

@Draconic_Mantis

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe just countries that stopped existing in the last 100 years? Could be a bit easier to go through.

@etta5487

6 жыл бұрын

such a good idea!

@kinggoblin4249

6 жыл бұрын

I don't think he'd really have to do any order, just pick a few countries and maybe set up a voting system.

@jolajoly9608

6 жыл бұрын

Yess Do Czechoslovakia

I always got the feeling rwanda from wakanda.

@QarsherskiyTGB

3 жыл бұрын

Cat lives matter meow

@ankurbhattacharya5184

3 жыл бұрын

Hey Groudon!

@kentbazemoreburneraccount8931

3 жыл бұрын

@@QarsherskiyTGB wtf so random

@SetuwoKecik

2 жыл бұрын

@@kentbazemoreburneraccount8931 it's not

@MorrisPXG

2 жыл бұрын

Rwanda plus Uganda equal to wakanda

RIP Chadwick ✊🏾❤️😢

2:24 just below mount STAN LEE, everything falls into place

@sion8

6 жыл бұрын

😆

@mickisei3547

6 жыл бұрын

John Doe I didn't realize that until you pointed that out😂😂. I'm sure he's gonna be somewhere in this new black panther movie.

@re-enlisttoday7816

6 жыл бұрын

Clorox Juice well yeah lol, he is in every single one of his movies.

@mickisei3547

6 жыл бұрын

Re-enlist Today! Fans even made a theory to why he's in every movie!!

@re-enlisttoday7816

6 жыл бұрын

Clorox Juice I didn't think a theory was needed. He owns Marvel, and can do whatever he wants. But what's the theory?

I like this trip into pseudo-geography. Trying to figure out where fictional countries would be located in the world is neat. Something different to treat us with every now and then.

@connierock5094

6 жыл бұрын

Bennett A lkub9d76d

@connierock5094

6 жыл бұрын

Bennett A edify 9xdy32lbxl b. l.. J 😂 u764

@bottle1211

6 жыл бұрын

dat pretty neato

@jrpapi5

6 жыл бұрын

Agreed

@criskity

6 жыл бұрын

I hope he does Syldavia.

Wakanda, as confirmed by the map in Civil War, is located between Uganda, South Sudan, Ethiopia, and Kenya. AS for desert, you gotta ignore that and say that in MCU, it is green. Also, their language is not just Bantu, but the movie used Xhosa, spoken in South Africa. So im guessing that it is a language closely related to Xhosa but got very separated, much like how Hungarian language is Finno-Ugric despite being in Central Europe.

@gasangwasamuel986

3 жыл бұрын

Its looks like it located in between Rwanda and Uganda

@peanutbutterpuppies2756

2 жыл бұрын

Well it's not green if you look outside the sphere

@Princeofvenlo

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah but Mbaku also spoke in pidgin English from Nigeria when he challenged the king to be

I saw it at a cinema in Mbarara, Uganda and the atmosphere was phenomenal. People were so excited that a Hollywood movie showed something with their people group in focus. Also the fact that it showed the location of Wakanda as somewhere near Uganda, seemed to make them very proud of their country. So great to see Africa getting some credit in the movie business. Thanks for the heads up, Barbs. Geography Now is the best!

2:19 Don't think for one second that I'll let you get away with that Knuckle flash

@user-vg6rh6hp5y

6 жыл бұрын

COMMANDO, WE HAVE BEEN DISCOVERED

@boratsagdiyev2417

6 жыл бұрын

YOU DO NOT KNOW DA WAE

@NordisktLejon

6 жыл бұрын

BLACK PANTHER IS DA QUEEN!

@boratsagdiyev2417

6 жыл бұрын

SPIT ON THE NON BELIEVAS

@nickb816

6 жыл бұрын

Right? #banned and unsubscribed

Anyone watching this just to see chadwick again

@trojanrhesus

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah

@ov6021

3 жыл бұрын

Yes

I love this man so much. Barby you are such a genuine person I really hope you'll always continue this. Love from your biggest fan in Namibia

@rogerwang4553

5 жыл бұрын

Namibia is the best country in africa

@Vishakakabila

5 жыл бұрын

You are so beautiful kyra :)

@limelyte5390

5 жыл бұрын

@@rogerwang4553 that tou know of right?

@youtubeaccount5153

3 жыл бұрын

Barbs be like: Oh, by the way, I have scheduled a special trip to Namibia. For research. Yea, that’s it, research. Do any...Namibian fans want to help out?

@frybanshee43

2 жыл бұрын

I’m also a fan from Namibia!

4:28, "if they still hold the ties to ancient Egypt" THANK YOU. The Cushitic language structure is very similar to the Ancient Egyptian, like 15-20% of our language has the same words and root words in Ancient Egyptian. The rest being 25-35% Arabic, and 50-60% pure Cushitic.

@sion8

6 жыл бұрын

What about Coptic?

@mariomoreno6169

6 жыл бұрын

Coptic is the only egyptian family language

@forreal7403

6 жыл бұрын

The copts are the like Northwest-African descendants of ancient Egyptians with very similar languages, they're genetically more related to other indigenous north africans like the amazigh and tuareg but further east. The Cushites on the other hand has less language similarities but more genetic similarities and more like the Northeast-African descendants of ancient Egyptians. Plus their are more Cushites than Copts, and have recorded historical ties with ancient Egypt. Read about the Land of Punt en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_of_Punt

@forreal7403

6 жыл бұрын

+Mario Moreno you're right Coptic is linguistically very to ancient Egyptian, but Cushitic is the closest outside of the "Egyptian" language itself in the Afroasiatic sphere. Also the Cushites are more genetically related to ancient Egyptians and are historically recorded as being more connected. Copts also lost their Ancient Egyptian culture, and culturally more resemble Arabs and other middle-eastern Christians. While Cushites on the other hand still have their ancient Egyptian culture, they still have very similar attire and dances to the Ancient Egyptians and some Cushitic people in eastern Ethiopia still believe in Horus (egyptian) or Huur (Cushitic) the sun God Ra or Qo'Ra in Cushit Egyptian heaven Neter or Neder (Cushitic) Egyptian spirit Ka or Kaah in Cushitic and many many more examples Culturally and Historically the Cushitic people are the most similar to ancient Egyptians today.

@titothesecond2001

6 жыл бұрын

WE WUZ KANGS AND SHIET

2:19 look! uganda 🇺🇬 knuckles!

It's time to learn Geography... NOW!!!

@peterrex5894

3 жыл бұрын

lol

@Cxnvict

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@hilmigold1233

3 жыл бұрын

Lol

@shoreZ

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

@Link________

2 жыл бұрын

Lol

You know "upanga" means "sword" in Swahili and even "kanda" refers to "continent" so "wakanda" is probably "those from the contenental region [?]"

@ramakrishnank4887

2 жыл бұрын

Also, 'kanda' (or 'kandam') means continent or a giant land mass in Thamizh, the South Indian language.

@fettyabiola1389

2 жыл бұрын

Well kanda in swahili is a side of something its like near place of something

@g2s2m19

2 жыл бұрын

Only Tamil? Sanskrit.

We saw the Knuckles...We all saw it...

@jrpapi5

6 жыл бұрын

MiKL McMiklson 😂😂😂😭😭 can't un see it

@TheCuriousViewer567

6 жыл бұрын

Do you know de wahy????

@ExtremeMelon

6 жыл бұрын

Abdulla Alkhoori it’s do u kno da wae

@natrevill2763

6 жыл бұрын

it's "this is a dead meme"

@Nugcon

6 жыл бұрын

lmao

Thank you soo much for doing this Barbie! I really appreciate the fun little Analysis of Wakanda. Your right it’s very rare to find good representations of Africa in media and love how your channel has done an amazing job of educating people to the many wonderful things about Africa, even if you don’t pronounce some of the names correctly lol.

@MegaDanio007

6 жыл бұрын

*you're

@jriibzmodus4792

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Laney you live in Africa?

@brasilcr4962

6 жыл бұрын

It's because the American and Canadian media they don't like to show goods places outside the country especially concerning Africa, Asia or other parts of Europe and Latin America

@jriibzmodus4792

6 жыл бұрын

정훈민준 what do you mean?

@alexlaney1039

6 жыл бұрын

J Riibz Model Prime yes I am and have live in a few countries there.

who is after black panther is no more....😭😭😭😭😧😧 RIP our super Hero

I can't wait to watch it!! I don't really go to movies office bc I'm so busy with school but I have to see this!

@Del1Dub

3 жыл бұрын

Amyyy ?

@navyarao7491

3 жыл бұрын

Hi beautiful... Thz is navin can u waste ur free time with me

please, do one about Game of Thrones geography

@morikhya7540

6 жыл бұрын

oohh and maybe Lord Of The Rings? like Middle earth

@caseyjason-ws3fr

6 жыл бұрын

B

@caseyjason-ws3fr

6 жыл бұрын

Berekhya@dont remind me,i am obssesed with Middle ,you have no idea,i cant sleep without reading it.i am just...uuuh

@mohanafy9264

6 жыл бұрын

Alan Bendi It's based on the war of roses so it is going to be Englad ,france maybe skandanavian countries

I'm a huge comic fan. I've been waiting for this video! Thank You!

@AnonymousAnonymous-pp5of

6 жыл бұрын

Thomas Miller Is that supposed to be a grammatical correction?

hey I just had an idea, you should do a series called geography then, where you talk about countries that don't exist anymore like the roman empire, or the U.S.S.R. I dunno, just a thought some genius commented this and i want it to happen

@spidertails9797

2 жыл бұрын

😐 stolen comment

@whatishandleanyways

2 жыл бұрын

@@spidertails9797 yea

Excellent video, Barbs! It's always fascinating when people create fictional countries with a rich and complex history, and even as someone who's never been a big Marvel fan, it's been interesting to hear about Wakanda in this video. Good job, Barbs! :)

I love this guy coming from an African I'm tired of hearing bad things about Africa,finally something good and main stream

@declannewton2556

6 жыл бұрын

Gabby Gershom Bassey Don't forget completely fiction to those adjectives of ] Wakanda to make up for known insecurities about Sub-Saharan Africa.

@HighFlyingOwlOfMinerva

6 жыл бұрын

*WE*

@declannewton2556

6 жыл бұрын

*WUZ*

@anentiresleeveoforeos2087

6 жыл бұрын

and like all good things about africa, it's fictional

@declannewton2556

6 жыл бұрын

Karl Wytoldus Janis de Voorsbergh You idiot, those areas aren't good. They were ruined when blacks overran those areas because of 'affirmative action' and reverse apartheid.

2:17 he knows da whey

WAKANDA FOREVER RIP Chadwick Bozeman 1977-2020

DUDE! Loved this explanation ! Hope you do more of these comic world geography now videos !

2:19 is the way

2:20 Do you know da whey ... Love it Barbs

See you in Heaven Chadwick Boseman

This was a really cool episode! It complimented geography and film nicely.

So, when you brought up Afro-Futurism, I felt compelled to research the term. I expected to find works of fiction and art movements. What I am pleasantly surprised that I found was references to the works of George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic. Thank you.

@sonikku956

6 жыл бұрын

Look up Detroit techno (or early Techno) too, parts of it were built upon Afro-Futurism.

@babymilksnatcher

5 жыл бұрын

Janelle Monae's project album "Dirty Computer" is another good example of Afro-futurism making it to the mainstream.

@Abhishek-sr2pu

3 жыл бұрын

@@mouhamed42 plz don't claim everyone balck be proud of you empire rather then stealing brown people or white people achievement. Be proud Mali empire,Ghana empire, Ashanti empire,empire of Ethiopia,Empire of Kush.

2:18 focus on the uganda half of the screen

Informative and direct... Thumbs up!!!

Thanks for this video, this movie bout to be fire!!

2:20 he had to add that in 😂

2:19 Barby knows de way!

I'm Kenyan and I'd tell you based on the accent from the black panther movie, the wakandan language is Bantu, plus considering the region (between unganda and DRC) it's definitely Bantu

@cynthiaegbo8331

3 жыл бұрын

It is a mixed of some African languages like the Swahili, Igbo etc

RIP Chadwick Boseman 😭

2:20 OMG he actually put in ugandan knuckles

2:19 de way

2:19 this is why we love you barb!

rip king

Latveria next please.

Barby, thanks for doing this. I, too, used to read comics as a teenager, but stopped when I went to college. As a marvel-lite who focused on the X-Men, the other comics never really got my attention, but I love how the non-mutant relate heroes have gotten so much love. With that said, I appreciate your analysis on the fictionalized Wakanda, giving it light. I have to ask, will you be teaching at some point? Id take your class anyday man. Keep up the great work! Peace!

At the beginning of the movie when they show the ancient history and the vibranium meteor in ash design you can see it's between Rwanda (south), Uganda (west) and RDC (west)

Damn this is mindblowing! Thanks Barby!

WE WUZ KANGZ!

@anon8979

5 жыл бұрын

topman 75 bigot

I like only heard of black panther once and you made me want to watch it. Nice video as always

Awesome video!! Really like this idea where you examine fictional geographies as well :D

Great video!!

*slams fist on table* *whisper* I saw de knuckles... I SAW DE WAE...

Will you also do other fictional Marvel nations? Such as the ones carved out from Romania, like Latveria. According to Marvel, I'm not a Romanian going to college in a Western city of my own country, but in the capital of Latveria.

Great video💯!

Great video! And your pronouciations are very good and confident. I've even seen a map online ofWakanka located somewhere between Nigeria, Niger and Chad, The Lake Turkana location seems to be the most plausible location to me,

What a great rundown of Wakanda! Would love to see you do Sokovia and Latveria as well.

It seems the language is very bantu based. Im tanzanian so speak swahili. A bantu based arabic influenced language. P.s. Taifa Ngao loosely means Nation of Shields. So makes sense that they're the defence force. Any question bring them on! Btw, it seems to me that Azania = Tanzania and Wakanda being a city state is like the real life Buganda inside Uganda which is an autonomous monarchy, much like Wakanda

I watch your geography videos all time but subscribed after this. Peace bro

That was great, you deserve all the subscribers.

Hahahaha, that Ugandan Knuckles at 2:20. Q😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

It is 8:24 AM in my town - I woke up 27 minutes ago after dreaming - This video is 37 minutes old - I had a long dream so....You uploaded it while I was dreaming!!!

Good idea for a video. Thanks 👍

love the video

waw, u knew de way to wakanda 80

2:19 I saw that,I like what you did

👍 GOOD JOB & BREAK DOWN. I LIKE HOW YOUR JUST KEEPING REAL. YOUR ABILITY TO BE CENTERED AND NEITHER RIGHT OR LEFT IS BRILLIANT.

Awesome!

This would've been perfect for April Fools

@Vitalis94

6 жыл бұрын

Lettukana My first thought exactly.

@slamwall9057

4 жыл бұрын

Instead we got Limberwisk

Ok. Im stopping this video. You got me excited all over again about this movie 😍😍😍😍

@nashmi-8609

6 жыл бұрын

👍👍

@Pontif11

6 жыл бұрын

I haven't seen many fantasy worlds based on African cultures in video games, movies or books. Knowing how much detail went into Wakanda makes me want to watch it. "The world" is often my favorite part of fiction.

@jesusislord1387

6 жыл бұрын

Can we have a white only country with White Lion? NOPE thought so...

@Pontif11

6 жыл бұрын

Minus the lion thats pretty much any fantasy movie set or based on a medieval europe. See Westeros, Narnia and Middle Earth for some of the most prominent examples.

Wow, this is 4 years old. Where did time go?

@prodchristi5383

5 жыл бұрын

Right

love this video!!

2:19 you did not xD Ahahaha

2:19 notice that knuckle

2:18 he knoes da wae

Thank you for the positivity! I’m subbing.

HE KNOWS DE WHEY!

Subscribed, Thanx.

thank you

Comment section: 70% we wuz kangs n shiet 30% do u know da wae? What a sad world we live in.....

@evropakhan1137

4 жыл бұрын

Man, humble yourself with your 15 likes

So would you do Latveria next?

02:19 *DAT'S DA RIGHT WAY MY BRUDAS*

Nice man

i love it!

I saw the Ugandan knuckles Easter egg!

Hey Barbie! Just a friendly geogratip. In the Swahili language there’s a difference between ng and ‘ng. Ng with no apostrophe is pronounced the was you pronounced Lupita’s surname in the video, while ng’ is pronounced more like the way you pronounced “Ngao” (without the hard g sound). Nyong’o then, is properly pronounced without any g sound. One of the pronunciational traps in a language with relatively few of them.

Do one for waadiya too!!!

Really enjoyed this video. It was cool seeing you take your knowledge & love of geography & applying it to a fictional place like Wakanda. *Now that you've seen the movie & saw how Wakanda is portrayed, any follow up thoughts?*

@peanutbutterpuppies2756

2 жыл бұрын

I think he would probably change where he put it because it's not as green on the outside of the sphere

This is amazing, seriously. Marvel and Geography are both my loves

I found Uganda nuckles

GOOD WORK FAM!!! U GOT YOURSELF A NEW SUB!!!! GOD BLESS, PEACE!!!

Great video bro

2:19 Bruda?

@djmoriyama5255

6 жыл бұрын

Brudda dis is da wae

@swagisawrus

6 жыл бұрын

show me de wae to wakanda brudda

WE WUZ KANGZ

@littlegrayjacket5873

6 жыл бұрын

k

Rest In Peace Chadwick 🙏

Despite ostensibly being in the northern part of Africa near Ethiopia and South Sudan, Wakandans speak the Xhosa language, which is native to South Africa. While it is a little weird that they speak a language from a completely separate geographic region, at least they’re speaking a _real_ African language at all. Boseman learned the language specifically for his role in Civil War and Black Panther. So good on them for being semi-realistic with the language. Oh also, the Black Panther isn’t always the same person as the king. In Civil War, T’Challa was the Black Panther while his father was the king of Wakanda. Only when his father was killed did T’Challa become king, and he kept the title of Black Panther. T’Challa being both the king and the Black Panther is a major source of conflict for him, since he has trouble balancing his heroics and his duties as King.

Pause at 2:20, and something really scary and disturbing will pop up

@awesomeduck7022

6 жыл бұрын

How do you know?

@awesomeduck7022

6 жыл бұрын

I saw nothing

@inderpreetsingh7429

6 жыл бұрын

Awesome Duck Coz only true africans know de wae.

Now the wait for Flag/Fan Friday for Wakanda

In civil war there is a short image of a map where you see its location

this is so cool!