Angry Becky: Love, Blackouts and Katanas
Angry Becky is a furious Nigerian vigilante fighting against everything wrong with her country. African animated series aren’t exactly a thing. Thankfully, that’s changing and this year might just be the year episodic animated stories from Africa are proliferated. One…
South African Cosplayer, Kelsey Atkins Crowned World Cosplay Champion
SA cosplayer, Kelsey Atkins crowned world champion after winning the Cosplay Championship at Comic-Con Africa last year. Do you love cosplay and can you cosplay like a pro? Yes? Chances are not quite like Kesley Atkins. Kesley, a South African…
Global Game Jam 2020 Takeaways
Every year towards the end of January, game developers, game studios, gaming enthusiasts, writers, programmers, designers, illustrators and other creatives from around the world gather for a full weekend to create a new game from scratch, in 48 hours. Africa…
Bahari Blue #15 – The Furious, Gangster Art of Collyde Prime
Collyde Prime, real name Adedapo Adesugba is an illustrator, character designer, graphic designer, comic book creator, graffiti enthusiast and rapper from Lagos, Nigeria. His hip-hop inclinations feature heavily in his art, which is unique, angular and in the words of…
Space Squid #4: How African Creators Make Money Off Comics (The Bubble)
In this episode of the podcast, Kadi introduces a new segment called The Bubble where he shares his thoughts on different things he finds interesting in the comic book, video game and animation space in Africa. On the first edition…
Space Squid #3: Paper Angels & What We’re Looking Forward to in 2020
In this episode, Kofi and Kadi discuss Paper Angels, a comic book by Kudzai Gumbo and Rodney Ngundu from Zimbabwe. In typical Squid CoW fashion, we break down the review into things we like (likies), don’t like (urgh) and what…
Fiko’s Corner by Kofi Ofosu
We’ve been chasing down cool podcasts by African creatives since we started Space Squid. One of these is Fiko’s Corner by our good friend Kofi Ofosu and we’re in love. Have you ever wondered what it is like to become…
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