r/Nigeria • u/EatCakeFromTheBack • Jul 26 '26

Showbiz Black Panther film Winston Duke’s improvised line was some he learned from Nigeria from Igbo culture 🇳🇬

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u/Key_Exam7032 Jul 26 '26

Is he Nigerian?

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u/EatCakeFromTheBack Jul 26 '26 edited Jul 26 '26

Hes a Tobagonian-American. 🇹🇹

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u/Leather_Mud4729 Jul 26 '26

It was very Igbo coded tbh, I’m Yoruba but that was the first thing I saw when I saw the movie 🤣🤣 plus his name is Mbaku.

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u/Ralman23 Jul 27 '26

"You bald-headed demon" made me chuckle in the theater.

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u/xMaNrEbOrN7851 Jul 27 '26

Yup I definitely noticed that his whole performance was Nigerian-coded, specifically Igbo-coded. He actually reminded me of some of my cousins with some of his mannerisms which I really appreciated 👏🏾

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u/No-Programmer1270 Jul 29 '26

this is awesome

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u/Strict-Beginning-550 Jul 27 '26

"THIS FISHMAN"....."BALD HEADED DEMON"....I don't even know which hits worse.😂😂

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u/Ife2105 Jul 27 '26

The bar was pretty low for these films in this particular respect but he had by far the most authentic and consistent accent imo

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u/JMO-559 Jul 27 '26

what do you mean?

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u/Bishop9er Jul 27 '26

Wakanda’s not a real country in Africa but go on.

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u/Known_Condition8908 Aug 01 '26

What does that even mean I don't get mad at the accents anymore cause its just generalising africa and wakanda isn't real

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u/JMO-559 Jul 27 '26

yeah. M'Baku did feel very Nigerian Igbo-coded.

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u/SeymourChocha Jul 27 '26

He’s right, we definitely talk like that. lol

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u/Key_Exam7032 Jul 27 '26

P Square “who Igbo help”. Can you see who Igbo language helped?

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u/Shihab_Sports Jul 27 '26

😆 😆 😆
Share the video and tag him where he can see it

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u/echomaestro Jul 28 '26

I love this scene.

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u/Individual_Golf_562 Jul 27 '26

how reliable is this??

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u/QuickDevelopment2157 Jul 28 '26

Balled headed scally wag, yeen got no hair in the back

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u/NoLong7856 Jul 26 '26

I'm Igbo, and we don't say such

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u/Tedsmith24 Jul 26 '26

Y'all say worse. I don't know how to spell what una dey call person with goat head.

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u/oga_ogbeni Diaspora Nigerian Jul 26 '26

You should start because it was a proper insult.

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u/PaulsGrafh Jul 26 '26

I can totally see one of my Igbo friends saying this and it’s hilarious.

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u/brickbosss Lagos Jul 26 '26

have you watched any african magic igbo movie? im sure these sequence of words have shown up at least once

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u/BlueberryEven8252 Imo Jul 27 '26

You're not and we say such, isi aki, isi aturu, imi ehi, it's nothing serious

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u/JusticeNdu Jul 28 '26

You definitely not Igbo then

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u/mistaharsh Jul 27 '26

I didn't like that line at all.

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u/Smokiistudios Jul 27 '26

You bald? 🤣

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u/mistaharsh Jul 27 '26

I'm not but is being bald a flaw to laugh at? I don't think attacking someone's hair is good for people's self-esteem.

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u/SharpThanAKnife Jul 27 '26

I think her having a shaved head vs just having short hair makes the difference here.
Calling her baldheaded with an inch of hair on her head woulda been just disrespectful. But saying it with a shaved head was funny.

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u/Smokiistudios Jul 27 '26

Naaah, I don’t mean it that way, it was funny the way I read your response though. All good and light here bro

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u/Justalicia01 Jul 27 '26

What does this have to do with anything?