Nnedi Okorafor is writing a comic series about Black Panther’s Dora Milaje warriors

Nigerian fantasy and science fiction writer Nnedi Okorafor will write a new three-part comic that focuses on the elite all-female forces team that protects the secretive African country Wakanda. 

Marvel announced that Black Panther’s Dora Milaje will get a three-part comic series, Wakanda Forever, which will be written by Nnedi Okorafor, Black Panther: Long Live the King and Binti trilogy author. Come June, fans of the Dora Milaje can dig deeper into their story.

Marvel said that the comic will send the warriors to New York City, where they enlist Spider-Man to help fight a threat to Wakandan national security. That book arrives in June, followed by “Wakanda Forever: X-Men” in July and “Wakanda Forever: Avengers” in August. Okorafor will write those, too

 

Who are the Dora Milaje ?

The Dora Milaje first appeared in Black Panther comics in November 1998 but have become more popular since they were brought to life on the big screen in the Black Panther movie. The characters are believed to have been inspired by an all-female military unit in ancient Dahomey, present-day Republic of Benin in West Africa. The unit was known for fighting colonial French forces in the 1600s but also for warring with neighbouring kingdoms and and participating in slave raids around West Africa.

Nnedi Okorafor

Okorafor masters the world of Wakanda. She co-wrote Black Panther: Long Live the King, a six-issue series in which T’Challa works to rebuild Wakanda after a revolution, and fights to protect its citizens from a monster that threatens it.

Last year, Okorafor also wrote “Blessing in Disguise,” an eight-page comic set in Lagos, Nigeria for Marvel’s Venomverse anthology. In July 2017, HBO announced that her novel, Who Fears Death, will be turned into a television series with Game of Thrones creator George R. R. Martin as executive producer. She recently-concluded Binti trilogy, about a young girl who leaves her home village to study at an interstellar school called Oomza U.

Source: Vogue & The Verge