currently researching african animation :
interested in compiling a database of practitioners in various sub-saharan countries :
welcome any postings from practitioners
Tuesday, August 25, 2015
Adamu Waziri on Local Content and Ownership
In a recent uploaded video on Facebook, Adamu Waziri shares his views on local content production and audiences in Africa. Waziri discusses the need for African animators to strategise the production and distribution of local content. In his own words...
If we want to see more Black African cartoons we have to do the hard work that companies like Disney, Cartoon Network etc. have already done. Instead of only spending energy asking those companies to create more 'diverse' content we should spend MUCH more time & energy creating, owning and supporting the content we say we want to see ourselves. Let Disney and the rest do what they have to do and we have to step up our game.
This is not some new amazing idea that no one has thought of. The hard part is, changing mindsets, putting in the hard work and systems to make it a reality. What do you think?
I research sub-Saharan African animation and completed a PHD for SOAS, University of London in this field - this is an area of interest that I have been looking at since 2003.. I moved to the UK in 2001 from Malta, where I was working in animated graphics at a television station. I then completed a Masters in Computer Animation at the NCCA Bournemouth Uni where I currently lecture as a Senior Academic. I completed a Masters in Anthropology of Media at SOAS, London in 2004 - focusing on discourses of identity in Post-Apartheid South African Animation
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Hi, Paula. I like your blog. Would like to contact you with some questions. Email me at tom@animationmagazine.net. Thanks.
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