Parody: The Lion King
The name may be inspired by a Siouan god called Wakanda, Wakonda, or Waconda, or Wakandas, a fictional African tribe from Edgar Rice Burroughs ' novel The Man-Eater , written in but published posthumously in , [3] or the Kenyan tribe Kamba , Akamba or Wakamba, [4] [5] or the word "kanda" , which means "family" in Kikongo. Wakanda is located in East Africa , although its exact location has varied throughout the nation's publication history: Before the emergence of the Wakanda nation, mystic beings known as Originators were expelled from the region by the Orishas , the pantheon of Wakanda consisting of Thoth , Ptah , Mujaji, Kokou and Bast , the Panther Goddess. In the distant past, a massive meteorite made up of the sound-absorbing element vibranium crashed in Wakanda. It was unearthed a generation before the events of the present day.
