Tosin is the Wakandan equivalent to the politically obsessed gen-Xer. He somehow got elected to the Wakandan Parliament as a teenager and is gonna step into the spotlight as the poster child for the democracy. I used to think Ridley would use the character as a subversion. He comes into government thinking the newly elected rulers have Wakanda’s best interests at heart and T’Challa is a bad king, but the story evolves to show the system is flawed and T’Challa has merit as a leader. Sure, they have their disagreements but he comes to realize T’Challa is a man worth following and Wakanda being a soft democracy isn’t an automatic fix, it takes more than political idealism and slogans like “No one man” to make a government work for everybody. Even if they wouldn’t restore the monarchy I thought Tosin would come to embrace T’Challa as a mentor and friend supporting Wakanda in the best way they can.
If that happens, great. But I don’t expect it. If anything, he’ll shit talk T’Challa the entire way through the the garbage ass Midnight Angels do but somehow I bet he’ll get along great with Shuri. He’a also likely gonna take the mantle of Shuri doesn’t get it when the inevitable movie synergy kicks into high gear a year or two from now.
Folasade continues to confuse me. She’s clearly as authoritarian as Akili, but she’s out of her depth and wish washy. She was all about strong arming Wakandans a few issues ago now she’s willing to die for the kingdom? Is the story gonna comment on how she inadvertently brought the Hatut Zeraze to power by antagonizing T’Challa and forcing him out the kingdom after first demanding he focus on Wakanda then somehow mind his own business. She’s just a new version of the Midnight Angels, but I guess she didn’t work with terrorists and Nazi’s to get her way.
PS: what does Tosin even want? He says urban Wakandans are greedy and self-absorbed but how’s that any different than what his tribe does? What policies does he want to implement? Unilaterally force everyone to give up their Kimoyo beads? Force people out of cities? How does that make him any different than M’Baku other than the fact he’s not willing to kill people to take power? It seems like he’s complaining just to complain. Ridley can’t say his people are poor and exploited (because they’re not) but they have this petty hatred of urbanites with no real alternative other than presumably forcing everyone to live like them.