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[On the importance of the lack of straightened/relaxed hair in Black Panther] Before the advent of the white man, black people on the continent were doing all sorts of things with their hair. The idea of extensions and all that is not new. But the shaming and rejecting of kinks and curls is new. That did come with the white man. And so in [Black Panther] Wakanda is a country that has never been colonised. So they embrace themselves. They have their own sense of what’s beautiful.”