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Maybe it sounds odd to describe this globally engaged approach to Wakanda’s foreign policy as reparative justice. Why should Wakandans need to make amends? What do they have to apologize for? Nakia is not Black Widow, with red in her ledger. Black Panther is not Iron Man, with a long career of arms-dealing and war-profiteering to atone for. But Wakanda has its own history, one stretching back long before its newest king or even his father’s reign. When T’Challa returns to the spirit realm, he confronts not only T’Chaka but all the former Wakandan kings gathered there. “You were wrong! All of you were wrong! To turn your back on the rest of the world!”

T’Challa sees his forefathers’ neglect of their cousins outside of Wakanda’s borders as a wrong that he must make right. It may be too late to repair the relationships with N’Jobu and N’Jadaka, lost as they are. But it’s never too late to begin to repair our place in the global community, to find a way to look after one another as if we were one single tribe.