Disney and Pan-African Entertainment Firm Team Up to Create an All-new, Science Fiction Series 4 months ago 1 min read
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Fed up with non-Africans telling African stories, three friends from Nigeria and Uganda created Kugali Media in 2017 to tell stories out of the continent. Through the entertainment company, the friends Tolu Olowofoyeku, Hamid Ibrahim, and Fikayo Adeola created a comic book collection called “Iwaju”, set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria’s capital city. Now, “Iwaju” which roughly translates to “the future” in the Yoruba language spoken in West Africa has been picked up as a new TV series by Walt Disney Animation Studios. While more specific details about the show are not yet available, Disney Animation Studios’ Chief Creative Officer, Jennifer Lee, said it will explore themes of “class, innocence and challenging th
Afrofuturist Comic Book Iwájú To Become Disney+ TV Show
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In A First, Disney Collaborates With African Entertainment Company For New TV Series
Disney Animation Studios has partnered with an African entertainment company to adopt Iwaju , a comic into a TV series. Iwaju translates to ‘The Future’
Disney Animation Studios has partnered with an African entertainment company to adopt Iwaju, a comic into a TV series.
Iwaju, which translates to ‘The Future’ in Yoruba language, is a creation of Kugali media, which was developed by Tolu Olowofoyeku, Hami Ibrahim and Fikayo Adeola to tell stories about the African continent. Coming in 2022
The announcement was made by Disney Animation, which in a tweet said that, the “first-of-its-kind” collaboration would create science fiction series coming to Disney plus in 2022. They also shared the first look at the visual development art from the series which showed the main characters as well as the logo of the future series. The announcement has left netizens elated a
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It was back in 2017 when Tolu Olowofoyeku, Hamid Ibrahim, and Fikayo Adeola, friends from Nigeria and Uganda, established Kugali as pan-African creative company. The comic book collection they came up with was born out of a desire to tell modern African stories now it’s set to reach a much wider global audience than they could have hoped with a comic book.
Now Disney has announced Kugali’s science fiction series
Iwájú will debut globally in 2022 on Disney+ fast-growing streaming service.
Disney Animation studios described the move as the