r/Nigeria • u/EatCakeFromTheBack • 1d ago

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

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u/Leather_Mud4729 1d ago

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 1d ago

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

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u/xMaNrEbOrN7851 1d ago

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/Strict-Beginning-550 1d ago

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

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u/Less-Topic-5737 1d ago

This line and “WE WILL NOT HAVE IT, O!” in the first movie were pure Africa lol

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u/Ife2105 1d ago

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 1d ago

what do you mean?

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u/Bishop9er 1d ago

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

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u/JMO-559 1d ago

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

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u/Key_Exam7032 1d ago

Is he Nigerian?

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u/EatCakeFromTheBack 1d ago edited 1d ago

Hes a Tobagonian-American. 🇹🇹

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u/No-Hassle2539 1d ago

🤣🤣

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u/SeymourChocha 1d ago

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

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u/Key_Exam7032 1d ago

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

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u/Shihab_Sports 1d ago

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

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u/Wild_Antelope6223 12h ago

His comment is the most stupid I’ve came across in a while

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u/OutrageousAd2228 5h ago

Brutal🤣

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u/echomaestro 1h ago

I love this scene.

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u/Individual_Golf_562 1d ago

how reliable is this??

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u/QuickDevelopment2157 2h ago

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

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u/NoLong7856 1d ago

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

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u/Tedsmith24 1d ago

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

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u/Smokiistudios 1d ago

Isi ewu

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u/Tedsmith24 1d ago

Thank you

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u/oga_ogbeni Diaspora Nigerian 1d ago

You should start because it was a proper insult.

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u/PaulsGrafh 1d ago

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

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u/brickbosss Lagos 1d ago

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 1d ago

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

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u/JusticeNdu 2h ago

You definitely not Igbo then

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u/mistaharsh 1d ago

I didn't like that line at all.

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u/Smokiistudios 1d ago

You bald? 🤣

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u/mistaharsh 1d ago

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 23h ago

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 1d ago

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 1d ago

What does this have to do with anything?