I will second Kore and say that I really really loved "World of Wakanda" and "Black Panther and the Crew" and I agree that they were both easier to follow than Coates' BP run. World of Wakanda was basically everything I wanted in a femslash story and it was CANON, and BP and the Crew was just so good I don't even have words. (Nick Spencer's SamCap run was coming out at the same time and I was disappointed with that but every time I picked up the Crew it was just like, wow, this is what SamCap wishes it were.) It was really really solid.
If you want some relatively recent canon whose characterization of T'Challa influenced MCU (there's an interview in the latest BP issue where Ryan Coogler talks about his canon influences and mentions this), I would (sort of) recommend Jonathan Hickman's New Avengers (volume 3) run. New Avengers v3 concerns itself with the Illuminati, which T'Challa becomes a member of at the beginning of the run, and how they attempt to save the world but have to grapple with a string of ethical dilemmas and no-win scenarios. So, basically, he's a heavily featured character. One of T'Challa's most memorable lines in the movie, actually, is straight-up stolen from New Avengers. (It was a pretty memorable line.)
The reason I hesitate to rec New Avengers is because it's heavily intertwined with Hickman's Avengers (v5) run which was ongoing at the same time -- like, intertwined to the point where by the end of it you will definitely need to be reading both books for it to make sense -- and the main Avengers book has no T'Challa, so if you are only there for T'Challa it might not be worth it to you.
(Also I am STILL MAD about the way Avengers ended but that is neither here nor there.)
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If you want some relatively recent canon whose characterization of T'Challa influenced MCU (there's an interview in the latest BP issue where Ryan Coogler talks about his canon influences and mentions this), I would (sort of) recommend Jonathan Hickman's New Avengers (volume 3) run. New Avengers v3 concerns itself with the Illuminati, which T'Challa becomes a member of at the beginning of the run, and how they attempt to save the world but have to grapple with a string of ethical dilemmas and no-win scenarios. So, basically, he's a heavily featured character. One of T'Challa's most memorable lines in the movie, actually, is straight-up stolen from New Avengers. (It was a pretty memorable line.)
The reason I hesitate to rec New Avengers is because it's heavily intertwined with Hickman's Avengers (v5) run which was ongoing at the same time -- like, intertwined to the point where by the end of it you will definitely need to be reading both books for it to make sense -- and the main Avengers book has no T'Challa, so if you are only there for T'Challa it might not be worth it to you.
(Also I am STILL MAD about the way Avengers ended but that is neither here nor there.)