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  KUGALI ONE OF AFRICA'S LEADING ENTERTAINMENT HOUSES. KUGALI,  the brainchild of entrepreneur, Ziki Nelson, CG artist, Hamid Ibrahim, and videogame developer, Toluwalakin Olowofuyeku, is the latest home of authentic "Afro inspired" storytelling designed to provide to millioins of fans worldwide, animation, art and augmented reality. Theirs and stories that "respect the history of Africa. embrace its present and imagine its future." Kugali  addresses the problem of distribution by creating a digital showcase platform for African content. Their milestones include the publication of a Pan-African anthology of comic books and the creation of an afrofuturistic series set in Lagos, Nigeria: IWAJU.  African content export just went global with Kugali X Disney's Iwaju! a move with tons of significance regarding the status & future of Africa's entertainment industry & ripples that can't be ignored. We and Kugali, discuss details about their latest pr

<script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8527396243964387" crossorigin="anonymous"></script> ADETOKUMBOH M'CORMACK is an award winning actor and film maker from Sierra Leone, who has had leading roles in movies such as Captain America: Winter Soldier and TV Shows like NCIS, and his own short films, Irish Goodbye and German King (qualifying him for a 2020 Oscars Awards Nomination & Best Short Film at the Independent Shorts Awards, amongst other accolades), as well as Voice acting roles. He currently voices the character 'Isaac' in the hit Netflix animated series, Castlevania, for which he received a SOVAS nomination, for the BEST Voice Over Performance. He also voices the character, Kofi, on the Netflix animated series, Blood of Zeus. We discussed with the 2020 Oscar Awards Qualified Filmmaker, about the life, his career, curious things about himself and his character rol

  “It's a forum to have our own space and to be able to exist. To be our most creative and open selves and everyone is accepted.”                                                  - Elyse Hines.    Why is Afropunk so important to blacker America? because as an experience, it symbolizes everything the African race has been fighting for, for hundreds of years: the power of Self-definition. The ability to see, describe and express ourselves in a manner unique to us. No history lesson is required to understand that identity has constantly been either torn from, or imposed on us for more than 'a while' now, Afropunk is that space where black bodies reach within and blossom in different forms. This Pixel Tour unravels this powerful phenomenon through imagery. <script async src="https://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-8527396243964387"      crossorigin="anonymous"></script> You can click on any of these images t

AFRICAN ORIGINS OF ANCIENT ASIAN CIVILIZATIONS. According to the “Out of Africa” hypothesis, all people of today have inherited the same mitochondria from a woman who lived in Africa about 160,000 years ago, so named Mitochondrial Eve. The Y chromosomes possessed by all men was inherited from a man who lived 140,000–500,000 years ago, probably in Africa. This man is known as the Y-chromosomal Adam. This fact is pivotal in understanding Africans' place as ancestors of all humanity, and architects of the world's first civilizations. Early China. The Blacks of China were known in historical literature by many names, including Negro, Austroloid, Oceanean by the Europeans. The East Indians and Mongoloid groups had other names for these Blacks such as Dara. Yueh-chi. Yaksha, Suka, and K’un-lun. Lushana and Seythians.  It’s been over  100,000 years ago  since m odern humans left Africa.  Indeed, the modern Chinese have African origins, their ancestors having migrated to China fro