Princess Shuri's Name (Spoiler, not Udaku)
(An example of Shuri's fuller title never being with a last name, but instead her ancestor or ancestral, native land. This example in particular was also penned by an African writer.)
Just to clarify, "Shuri Udaku" is not actually Princess Shuri's name in the comics or MCU. I think it's important to know this not just for accuracy sakes and as a factoid (many actually believe this is her canon name when it is not), but to also respect the fact that Wakanda (an African nation) does not really have a traditional western-like naming system in neither the 616 comics (prime, original universe) or the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It is often mononymic names!
Shuri's name is Princess Shuri, daughter of Ramonda (or T'Chaka, but it appears to go by the ancestor of your shared gender — in Shuri's case, it's maternal)! It's much simpler to call her "Princess Shuri" or "Shuri" though 😅!
We have seen examples of their naming in the MCU:
And we have the 616 comics telling us it early on in. T'Challa's name is repeatedly said to be T'Challa, son of T'Chaka:
(Note: the first scan is T'Challa with a non-Wakandan — specifically, a South African. There is an intentional contrast with him not having a last name like Zanti!)
The "Udaku" surname specifically is only mentioned in a 2008 alternate reality where Shuri does not exist (the old Earth-1610), and T'Challa is actually the brother of M'Baku:
So yes. While this surname did exist in a "comic," it was never tethered or did it link back to Shuri. Instead, it was a different universe (Ultimates, which got boom boomed iirc, but that's another story for another day).
