When the apartheid government made a Black Superman

Look! Up in the sky, it’s a bird, it’s a plane, it’s apartheid propaganda. Just a decade after the debut of the first African comic book superhero, Black Panther, the South African government launched a R64 million rebrand, including the creation of a Black Superman. Mighty Man, the human law-enforcing dynamo, was one of many (expensive) (and insane) attempts to quell resistance and protest in the 1970s. So how did he fare? The answer will not surprise you. Read Mighty Man for yourself here: https://idep.library.ucla.edu/search#!/q=mighty+man&collection=South+African+Ephemera?config=cross_collection_search Instagram: / okbaddiek TikTok: / okbaddiek Substack: https://khensani.substack.com/ Patreon: https://patreon.com/khensani?utm_medi... Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/khensani Sources: Davis, R. (2015) *Selling apartheid: New book lays bare South Africa’s Propaganda War*, *The Guardian*. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/01/selling-apartheid-new-book-lays-bare-south-africas-propaganda-war (Accessed: 06 February 2025). de Villiers, J. (no date) *The apartheid government created a black superhero called mighty man – and in 1976, black youth set him on fire | news24*, *News24*. Available at: https://www.news24.com/news24/bi-archive/apartheid-government-spent-millions-educate-black-man-comic-youth-day-2018-6 (Accessed: 09 November 2024). Riesman, A.J. (2018) *How an untested young comics writer Revolutionized Black panther*, *Vul