Illustrator Daniel Clarke developed the concept for a modern African fairy tale called “Kariba,” and, along with a South Africa-based animation collaboration called the Blue Forest Collective, is ...

*Just in time for the holiday season, Anboran announced that it has completed a deal with licensed apparel maker Mad Engine Global to have its line of branded apparel products available online at ...

The first trailer for “Night of the Kings,” Ivory Coast’s official submission to the Oscar race, beautifully blends African mythology and fairy tales with the grim reality of life inside one of the ...

In a video posted July 9, Matthew Torres, known as The Story Time Guy on Instagram, accused popular European children’s book author Andrew Lang of appropriating elements of African culture and ...

After a few years of observing East African Budget Day from a writer’s couch, I have come to suspect that the crafts of creative writing and public budgeting have a lot in common. Take my country, ...

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For anyone growing up in the 1960s one of the best TV cartoon shows was Rocky and Bullwinkle. As I grew older I came to appreciate the reason for this which was that the show was written for adults so ...

In 1964, a Zambian high school science teacher named Edward Makuka Nkoloso took it upon himself to found a space program for his country. It was the climax of the Space race, and Nkoloso wanted to put ...

It may fumble its final moments but Weapons builds on the successes of filmmaker Zach Cregger's previous effort Barbarian, harnessing many of the same techniques to create a more sophisticated, ...