Nnedi shared the exciting news via instagram, by posting an illustration of Shuri in action with a telling caption of the exciting news which read,
"Marvel has given Shuri (sister of T’Challa) her own comic series...and I’m writing it. Yup! 🤓!! Shuri is an African young woman of genius level intelligence who is obsessed with technology and has traveled spiritually so far into the past that she's seen Wakanda before it was Wakanda. The Ancestors call her “Ancient Future”. And she's super ambitious. What do I love about her? Alllll that and more. #wakandaforever🙅🏾♀️#nnediokorafor#marvel."
Not that we needed more reasons to love Wakanda series, but now that an African writer who understands our history and our ways is writing the story, we couldn't love it any less.
We don't know much about the movie besides what the writer shared. Shuri as we remember is the the tech savvy princess and sister to black Panther, King T'Challa whom we've all come to love.
Letitia Wright will reprise her role and the story will be set in the same fantasy world of Wakanda. Picking up from where the previous American author, Ta-Nehisi Coates left off in the first of the series.
Nnedi is respected in the male dominated comic world, while this won't be her first major story, it is also not the first time she's associated with the highly successful marvel blockbuster.
She is already working for Marvel on its Wakanda Forever series, which focuses on the Dora Milaje, the all-female special forces unit, in the same fictional nation of Wakanda.
She shared this sad news via twitter, tweeting,
I'm going to just point this point this out: I'm seeing some odd racialized kinda sexist responses to my writing BP. Is this That Thing?
— Nnedi Okorafor, PhD (@Nnedi)
Her first major story 'Who Fears Death,' has allegedly also been picked by HBO for a TV series executive produced by famed Game of Thrones creator George Martin. It must be that good if he's involved.
