Originally Posted by
Redjack
Africa is nothing more to me to me one way or the other than Europe, Australia, South America or Antarctica. Like every other place in the world is has soil, mountains, beaches, forests, animals, bugs, lakes, rivers, people, tribes, cultures, etc. Most of the people on Earth, African or not, are brown. All of the people on Earth are descended from Africans. So what? Are Scandinavians Africans too? They have had more contact with Africa over the last ten thousand years than Wakanda has.
The history of a place can be described in a lot of ways, geologically, climate, strictly focusing on animal migration or plant life cycles. All of those constitute history. What WE are talking about is the sort of history humans write down about themselves and, in the context of the MCU, Wakanda's history is entirely separate from that of the rest of the continent in which it sits.
There is no cultural crossover. there is no trade. there is nothing linking the one to the other but the happenstance of dirt. as a fictional construct it's all over the place, multiple writers over multiple decades picking and pasting bits of their filtered views of "Africa" to cobble together a version of Wakanda which is plausible only in passing. Any examination of the established history of the fictional nation must lead to the conclusion I've drawn here.
The "borders" you describe between these nations mentioned in the real world are social. tribal in most cases, codified into national borders over centuries. they aren't real. None of those nations murder every single person who tries to cross (sometimes leaving only one terrified individual alive to spread the waning). Wakanda opted out of Africa at its beginning and remained separate for 99.9999999999999999999999999999999999999% of the continent's collective history. It literally shares nothing, intentionally, with any other group, tribe or nation in such extreme ways as I've cited in other posts.
seriously. this isn't even a close one.