Black Panther is just a movie

It's rather amusing the number of people who have tried to make political points using the fictional African nation of Wakanda from the Black Panther movie/comic.  The movie was a good, entertaining comic book movie, but that's all it was.  It's not some commentary of what Africa could be without colonialism or racism or what have you.  Sure, they have the world's only supply of vibranium, and that's the source of their super powers.

Vibranium is another word for magic.

Most super heroes have special powers, and the source of their power could be described with the word magic just as well as their actual backstory.  Superman gets his power from the yellow sun/magic.  Spider-Man gets his power from radioactive spider genes/magic.  It's even true for someone like Iron Man, who invents world-changing technologies because he's a genius scientist.  But why can only he, of the thousands of genius scientists, understand this technology?  Magic.

If you think about the details of Wakanda as if it were a real place, and compare it to the real world, the flaws are obvious.  They possess this super valuable material, and as a result created technologies powered by it.  Now switch to the real world, and imagine the oil-rich nations of the world as they were in the 17th century.  How many advanced technologies did they make to use their abundant natural resource?

The most laughable example of this from the movie is how vibranium is somehow a super medicine.  After all, everyone knows the healthiest thing for the human body is to ingest large quantities of heavy metals.

The simple fact is that a nation that chose to remain isolated from the world community would lag behind the world.  The free exchange of knowledge is what drives progress.  It's why, historically, the vast majority of the world's inventions and discoveries came from the largest interconnected land area, namely the Mediterranean, Europe, and Asia.