In this post, I argue that Iwájú (2024) redefines African futurism through animation by mobilizing the animated urban environment of Lagos as the primary site through which class inequality, technological unevenness, and futurity are made visible and materially legible. In…
African animation scholars have discussed the role of formal art institutions in producing auteurs like Moustapha Alassane, Jean-Michel Kibushi, and Ebele Okoye (Callus 2018, Sawadogo 2019). In this piece, I propose that the African animation studio is a creative and…
In the opening minutes, Nayola narrates a dream: a man runs naked through tall grass, gunshots crack, he collapses in mud, and a mulemba tree grows from the place where he falls. In the final sequence, a masked figure crosses…
