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Streaming giants arrived in Africa promising scale and prestige. Producers hurried to meet them with bigger budgets, slicker production and crowd-pleasing stories. The awkward question now: are we simply repackaging the same tropes for global screens — or has African cinema genuinely evolved into a diverse exporter of fresh African narratives? Below we take a market-by-market look (Nigeria, South Africa, Kenya, Ghana, Francophone markets, and the diaspora/global stage), point

From clay puppets and folklore to Netflix deals and futuristic superheroes — journey through Africa’s colorful, rhythmic history of animation and the storytellers who brought its myths to motion.  “Africa’s stories were always animated — now the world can finally see them move.”   Scene 1: When Stories Were Shadows on the Wall Long before there was film, before pencils and pixels — Africa was already animating. Around flickering fires, voices danced. Hands waved, eyes widened