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In recent years, there has been a growing demand for authentic African stories, and one production that is answering that call with passion and creativity is the animated fantasy series, ‘Iyanu’. The ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Rob Salkowitz is an Eisner-nominated comics journalist and author. From Cape Town to Cairo, Lagos to Nairobi, animation is fueling ...

A collaboration between a Kenyan animation company, a British production team and the BBC has led to the creation of a new animated series and shown how African governments can support actors in the ...

Digital technology may have led to the decline of hand-drawn animation, but it still required legions of creatives and technicians to feed into the process. Now some fear that artificial intelligence ...

"Supa Team 4" is the first Netflix animation series written and produced in Africa and is a taste of what's to come from the continent's animation industry. Africa's animation industry and its fans ...

The sixth edition of the Cape Town Intl. Animation Festival (CTIAF) kicks off Friday, March 3, in South Africa, with the host nation offering a three-day showcase of some of the top toons and ...

Cartoon Network Africa Creative Lab is a brand-new initiative designed to bring innovative, local short-form content to Cartoon Network Africa and its digital platforms and to bolster the local ...

The Cartoon Network and Gulli, the Lagardère-owned kids network, are doubling down on African animation. Gulli announced in Annecy June 14 that it’s pre-purchased “L’arbre à Palimpseste” (The Tree of ...

With the success of feature films like Adventures in Zambezia and Khumba, South Africa’s Triggerfish Animation Studios is on the rise. And its pan-African profile should grow after the recently ...