 Sitting in a movie theater, watching Angela Bassett, Lupita Nyong'o, and Letitia Wright light up the screen in Wakanda Forever, it is almost hard to remember what it was like when the first Black Panther movie hit. That impact that practically exploded around the world. My name is Mishai Mwangola. I'm a performance scholar exploring what storytelling can do. Millions of years ago,