One of its incredibly important other uses, however, is to allow a newly-coroneted ruler to access the ancestral plane and reconnect with past generations.
In Wakanda, Zuri is the man in charge of the application of the Heart-Shaped Herb, which many Marvel fans are familiar with as the flower that gives Black Panther his incredible strength, speed and agility.
T’Challa, played by Chadwick Boseman, uses it and has the chance to reconnect with his father, T’Chaka, and it seems that knowledge of this link is what allows Zuri to know that T’Chaka isn’t gone, but instead just on another level of existence.