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The MTN App Challenge Accra Roadshow starts today at the Mensah Sarbah Hall at the University of Ghana from 10 am and we’re eager to taste what tech enthusiasts and especially animators have been cooking. While tech folk in Accra have had the opportunity to pit their ideas against each other – in an attempt
Kweku Ananse, the beloved character from Ashanti folklore needs your help becoming best friends with Adinkra symbols, folklore, math and his all-time favorite, puzzles. Kweku needs badly to cross over into children’s hands to enrich their lives with his masterful storytelling through a fun and educative mobile game, Ananse’s Well Rescue. For the uninitiated, depending
VEXPO is a week-long series of events which reflect African culture and creativity targeted at inspiring the youth and young adults. So you like comics and animation. And you like coffee, or maybe you don’t and just want the company of like-minded people with whom you can spark a creative wave in an intimate and
In 2016, the Sarkodie M.anifest beef was all the rage in Ghanaian hip-hop. This write-up relives that era through different digital illustrations depicting Ghanaian illustrator’s people’s take on the beef. The Ghanaian Hip-hop scene is worked up thanks to a rap Cold War between two of its heavyweights, M.anifest and Sarkodie. Tracks have been released,
Just days before the release of June 12 #4, I wrote that, The biggest issue with the comic is its lack of diverse characters, which might be explained by the limited number of issues. Add to that how short each issue is and I am not completely off the mark. Now, however, I’m tempted to
June XII is the title and lead character in Ibrahim “Sirgai” Ganiyu’s comic. June XII marks the first elections after the 1983 military coup that resulted in the widely acknowledged victory of Moshood Abiola in 1993 and subsequently, its annulment by Ibrahim Babaginda and eventually, General Sonny Abacha’s coup. The day is celebrated by some
COMIC REPUBLIC are legit, one mega comic force to reckon with on the continent. Spawning characters such as Guardian Prime who, at first glance, seems like a superman copy but is many leagues different, to Eru, the manifestation of fear to Jade Waziri, a hardened, no-nonsense commander, these guys know their stuff. Running on infinite
We’re crazy excited to announce that the animated films of Comfort Arthur and Francis Yushua Brown have been nominated in the Golden Animation category of the Golden Movie Awards. In its second year, the award will for the first time, highlight Ghanaian animation talent. The nominated films are Brown’s school project, Agorkoli: Cause of Hogbetsotso, a
Finding niche content like homegrown African animation can be a chore sometimes on the internet. Lucky you, we at Squid are passionate about discovering and promoting content we can lay our hands-on. In the spirit of our inner geeks, here’s the first part in a series of lists of five African animated projects you can check
Dunamis is a Kenyan comic book that highlights some of the challenges marginalized peoples face in some African communities. Ghanaian investigative journalist Anas Aremeyaw Anas in 2011 together with a local journalist and an activist released a documentary that showed harrowing visuals of the ordeal of Albinos in Tanzania, who are believed to be vested
