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  • November 17, 2020By betasquidmag_pcwivg

    African comics continue to rise in their collective success. In order to better understand them, there is a need to sort and categorize the products and our expectations going forward. Before we can answer whether or not to categorize African comics as indie, we must also fairly outline what is considered African and what is

  • October 3, 2020By Kadi

    Death sucks. It’s inevitable and the most persistent constant in the world. But it still sucks. Even more so when it comes early and after a protracted illness. Death robbed us of Emmanuel Apraku, a fascinating Ghanaian illustrator. Better known as Ray Styles, he created beautiful and emotionally driven art that spoke on important issues.

  • September 12, 2020By betasquidmag_pcwivg

    This post about Egyptian Comics originally appeared on Gutternaut and has been republished here with permission from the author, Jake Palermo. Egyptian comics are gaining some form of notoriety by showing the strength of Egypt’s people. Anyone with even a passing interest in contemporary Egypt knows about the dictatorships and protests surrounding them. So artists try to raise

  • June 6, 2020By betasquidmag_pcwivg

    This post on Ethiopian illustrators originally published on Medium by Addismiraph Abebe. What’s the creative scene in East Africa, specifically Ethiopia like? On our end, we’re mostly aware of Jember creator, Debebe Beserat (Etan Comics) and afro-futurist illustrator Fanuel Leul. Luckily, Addis Ababa-based Addismiraph Abebe took the time to share a list of 10 Ethiopian

  • May 31, 2020By Kadi

    There’s so much happening in the African digital art space that, try as we do, we can’t capture it all. Luckily, we’re not the only ones interested in sharing stories about comics, games and animation from Africa. Below is a roundup of African animation, comics and video game stories we caught on our radar in

  • May 27, 2020By Kadi

    This post on eSports in Africa originally appeared on African Business Magazine and was written by William McBain. Johannesburg resident Sam “Tech Girl” Wright kept her passion for video gaming a secret in high school. “It wasn’t cool, you’d just get mocked, and being a girl playing video games was even worse,” she says.  Wright now

  • March 12, 2020By Kadi

    On January 11 this year (2020), the three winning shorts of the Cartoon Network Creative Lab animation competition were aired on DStv channel 301 and GoTV channel 67. This came a year after Garbage Boy and Trash Can (by Moshood Ridwan Shades), Majitu (by Mark Kinuthia) and Intergalactic Ice Cream (by Andrew John Phillips) were

  • February 22, 2020By Kadi

    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 is no exception and has seen an increase in jam sites over the years. This

  • February 18, 2020By betasquidmag_pcwivg

    NubianVR is a virtual reality startup in Ghana. This post originally appeared on their Medium account. It is republished here with permission and as an introduction to Ghana’s virtual reality space. In 2017, NubianVR made a commitment to focus all its resources on building solutions in Virtual Reality that will be instrumental in addressing the

  • February 9, 2020By Kadi

    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 of The Bubble, he discusses different ways comic book creators in Africa make money.  Time-Stamped

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