In a recent interview with Forbes magazine, Kanye West says “A lot of Africans do not like the movie [Black Panther] and representation of themselves in…Wakanda. But I’m gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it’s the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House…”
Later in the interview, he says: “That is a positive idea: you got Kanye West, one of the most powerful humans — I’m not saying the most because you got a lot of alien level superpowers and it’s only collectively that we can set it free. Let’s get back to Wakanda… like in the movie in Wakanda, when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes. Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicine — like big pharma — we are going to work, innovate, together.”
Is a royal court really so innovative? Peopled with monarchs, aristocrats, jesters and executioners? Then again, the Kennedy Administration had Camelot as its model. The Guardian has on its website a 2013 article on JFK and the Camelot myth, one that claims the comparison does a "disservice to the real understanding and assessment of the Kennedy Administration," without really telling us why, or what its accomplishments were.
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