The name "Wakanda" was stolen from a Ken Kesey novel.
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The novel came out in 1964. Wakanda in the comics first appears in 1966. Stolen? Questionable. That close in time, either could have been thought of first.
It is possible Marvel comics used the name from the novel. It is also possible that one of the other theories of the origin of the name is correct. Its possible Ken Kensey was inspired by the same sources.
Name borrowing is a time honored tradition with many writers. It is often intended as an homage to the source.
Legally, you cannot copyright a name. Even a trademark would require more than just the duplication of a name. For instance it is unlikely that a case for could be made against, say, an ice cream shop calling a sundae an Iceberg Supreme filed by a pain creme company who make a product called Iceberg Supreme. Confusion between the two would be unlikely.
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Almost everyone at Marvel was a counterculture head. Just the sort of guys who would be reading Kesey in the 60s.
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