Originally Posted by
Redjack
I would erase the things i don't like (which actually isn't too much) and inject the things i want. Just like all the other writers have.
as to the spy thing and liken ing Wakanda to any modern nation. Nope.
Wakandans are insanely insular, highly xenophobic, ridiculously secretive and, as i said, the most technologically advanced nation in the world's history. There is no nation or collection of nations that they'd regard as a threat, much less a serious threat, until the end of WW2 and the use of atomic weapons (technology Wakanda would have discovered and rejected centuries prior.)
Even at that point, there's no way they'd choose spies as a response because the entire rest of the world was controlled by white people or asian people. See many black Africans in the halls of power in those days? See many black people of any kind? Nope. Spies need to blend. Any necessary surveillance would have to be to make sure that the Western and Eastern powers didn't catch up technologically with Wakanda or, tangentially, wipe out the planet in a nuclear exchange.
Wakandans thought themselves superior to the rest of the world because they are, demonstrably, factually superior. So the idea that they'd see anyone as a potential threat is something blacks in the West might apply to them (we would have reason to advise caution when dealing with these powers) but for Wakandans to feel that way would be like us worrying about the potential threat stone-age tribes in Papua New Guinea would pose to US security. IOW; zero. Ever. Forever. They will never, ever catch up.
Writers like spies because they're fun.
The EARLIEST you might have effective human spies would be at the end of T'Chaka's reign and going into T'Challa's.
Prior to that? Nope. No reason to try that and no reason to believe they'd be effective. Robots and satellites would do.