I don't think it had anything to do with Wakanda or Africa (it's not like Wakandans even care about him at this point) but I feel like it would have...
Well, at least Ultimate barely focused on the school and it was mostly a (badly executed) team show while the 2017 one made everything about SCIENCE...
I liked the latter and for the same reason I liked the other two: taking a marquee character and pairing him/her up with a less popular name as a way...