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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
Remember back when we associated rainfall with lovemaking and (justified) lateness? Instead of disorder and death. Kobina Ankomah-Graham (October 29, 2019) When it rains in Accra especially, disaster or the threat of it strikes. The biggest culprits are always poor urban planning and plastic-choked gutters. Ghana is a beautiful place and an equally ugly one.
Homework? Check. Saving the world? Double Check. Mama K’s Super 4, Netflix’s first original animated show from Africa? Triple check! Netflix just picked up Mama K’s Super 4, the streaming giant’s first original animated show from Africa and is hiring a team of female writers from the continent to work on it. More on this
Chances are, you’ve seen Black Panther and the plethora of other blockbuster comic book movies and TV shows that have dominated conversations around film in the last decade. Heck, maybe you were even moved by the passing of comic book legend Stan Lee even though you only remember him thanks to his numerous cameos. Perhaps
British manga creators re-launch Hot Lunch, their all-ages manga Kickstarter campaign and have been featured in the BBC, Broken Frontier, Bleeding Cool. The Kickstarter will end on Friday March 29th 2019. While it’s known that many Kickstarters fail, a campaign that falls short of its goal doesn’t necessarily mean the end of the project. Enter
Possibly. When last did you watch an African animation so good you watched it all over again? That’s what A Kalabanda Ate My Homework delivers with all the right doses of humour and fun. The 6 minute animated short is a story about a boy and his encounter with a mythical creature, the Kalabanda. A Kalabanda is a
Amadioha is bringing the Ancient Laws of Nsibidi to the fore Much information on African culture has been lost over the decades that now, years since we finally decided to give a fluff about our history, it is often considered a rare find to come across any collective material containing accurate traditional knowledge. One of
Do Africans play games? That’s an absurd question you might answer with, duh, everyone plays games… everywhere. Do Africans make any games? Now depending on how informed or otherwise uninformed you are, that’s a question you might struggle with. This shouldn’t be so. Gaming, e-sports and game development has grown across the continent at a
In 2012, Ghanaians were thrilled to see a homemade film about a popular children’s game, Chaskele. Even better, Chaskele was an animated film. There aren’t many animated projects from Ghana and the reception of the film at that time spoke volumes about the desire by many to see stories that were true to home and
February 14th is recognized around the world as St. Valentine’s Day or Val’s Day for short. It is a day set aside for love in honour of Valentine, a priest who depending on which story you believe, was either killed for blessing marriages in spite of Emperor Claudius II’s decree or killed for helping Christian
