A version of this column originally appeared in Games Industry Africa, a site created to chart the development of the African games industry and spotlight its many talented creators.
Objectively speaking, 2020 felt like an interminable grind. A window of time that forced us to examine what it truly meant to be human as we fell head first into a digital reality. A year of Mondays, if you will. Even so, a significant segment of the industry made hay and registered unprecedented success, and the narrative revolved around the launch of the new consoles and the surge in player engagement. By all accounts, it was a banner year for the industry.