

He graduated with full honors and eventually gaining a PhD in Engineering and neural science, as well as an MBA grom M.I.T. Being naturally bright, finding education in the United States was no problem for him. N'Jadaka spent the next couple of decades honing himself within the outside world. Īs no one would adopt the now free urchin, N'Jadaka eventually took to his new alias in order to better blend in within Harlem, New York City, as people continually got his birth name wrong. This eventually culminated in Erik killing his cruel caretaker before severing all ties with his slave masters, leaving his prior life of servitude in order to find his own path. Years of stealing and building devices for his hated caretakers made N'Jadaka increasingly bitter and resentful, largely towards M'Demwe, Klaw, the kingdom which he felt abandoned by, and the outside world as a whole. The haughty Ulysses commanded the Wakandan refugee to cast aside the former life he knew and embrace him as his new god even giving the orphan a different name, "Erik", while the traitor of his nation hypocritically called himself N'Jadaka's only real people, saying the world at large didn't value them at at all. The caravan of brigands he traveled with groomed him for years to embrace his hate and rage.

ĭuring exile, the treacherous M'Demwe acted as a forceful parental figure to a young Killmonger as they traveled abroad, the former boasting of their hierarchical supremacy as they foraged throughout what he called "inferior lands." In truth the boy's captor never had any real way to return to their hidden home realm.

This eventually resulted in the murder of his family at M'Demwe's hand when Klaw's co-conspirator kidnapped him and fled their Golden Realm after the death of the Late King. N'Jadaka's childhood life was fraught with hardship as a seditious Wakandan plotted with the nation's enemies to usurp the power of the Black Panther's throne.
