During these negotiations, T'Challa seemed to have completely let his mother take part, and Queen Mother Ramonda gladly accepted her authority, preserving the unity and harmony of the Black Panther royal family in outsiders' eyes. Yet neither T'Challa nor Queen Mother Ramonda knew that the emperor had already made preparations on two fronts. This unofficial meeting, which received no news coverage, revealed a crucial piece of information: opinions within Wakanda differed over opening the borders, and policies toward the chaos of the African continent after doing so were radically different as well. Since opening the borders was inevitable, how to secure the greatest possible benefit for Wakanda would be a question the Black Panther royal family needed to consider.
If former King T'Chaka were still alive, Wakanda would only have sent medical aid and worked with the World Health Organization to resolve epidemics across Africa or in Wakanda's neighboring nations. If a terrorist attack or a warlord coup occurred, all Wakanda could do would be evacuate Wakandan citizens and wait for the situation to stabilize before offering aid. But Queen Mother Ramonda and the Wakandan nobility now believed in direct intervention—using the most direct methods to stabilize Wakanda's neighboring countries, thoroughly eradicate poverty, war, epidemics, drugs, and violent crime, and stabilize Wakanda's investment environment.
T'Challa undoubtedly opposed this approach. Though he was the one most capable of inheriting his father T'Chaka's aspirations, he had no means of restraining his mother and the Wakandan nobles. Besides, he himself was not particularly resolute. Especially when he saw those Kenyan slum dwellers with no hope whatsoever for the future, able only to lose themselves in cough syrup and jet fuel, he was not sure whether Wakanda's intervention would truly benefit them—after all, no matter what happened, it could hardly be worse than their