Movies, animation, comics, gaming and tech. Want to know what’s happening in Africa and beyond? Here’s the Run Down for this week.
NEWS OUT OF AFRICA – Tech/Entertainment
The French Institute and The Art Of Comics
In 2019 the French Institute of South Africa initiated a comic exhibition titled The Art of Comics. The event set out to highlight that French and African comics may have more in common when it comes to heroic fantasy, science fiction and history, than one would think. Comic authors from South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Cameroon, Senegal, Côte d’Ivoire and Algeria were grouped together and their amazing work was showcased.
The exhibition was a huge success, so much so that the French Institute of South Africa has come up with a new event for this year.
Introducing Afropolitan Comics
This 2020, the French Institute of South Africa has partnered with Angoulême’s International centre for comics and images to create – Afropoliton. This online exhibition, which is free to access, will be available to view until July 2021. It will showcase and further explore the work of gifted comic authors of African comics and aims to continue building bridges between Anglophone and Francophone comic creators in Africa.
Click below to find out more https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20200804-africa-s-comic-artists-tell-powerful-stories-in-unique-online-exhibition
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Know About Africa Tech?
AfricaTech is a tech event within AfriCom, and it is one of the biggest events in Africa dedicated to enterprise and digital transformation. Every year, AfriTech hosts over 12 000 technology and business experts from various industries in a single location. But because of the worldwide COVID pandemic, AfricaTech has decided to go virtual.
Africa’s Largest Tech Show is Going Virtual!
This 2020, AfriTech, AfriCom and all its conferences are going virtual! The events have been meshed together and will be known as the Virtual Africa Tech Festival. They will be held from the 9th to the 13th of November and will showcase content dedicated to AI, blockchain, Fintech, cloud, IoT, data centres and security. Will you look at that! Tech companies and start ups better get ready.
Click below to pre-register for the event and found out more https://tmt.knect365.com/africatech/
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NEWS BEYOND AFRICA –Gaming/Animation
Splinter Cell Has Been Everything
Splinter Cell, a stealth game which follows the life of black ops agent, Sam Fisher and his unit as they fight against terrorists set out to destroy the United States, is quite the popular game. So popular in fact that it became a book series, and, it appears that a novel and game is not all that it sets out to be. Now, Splinter Cell is going to try out life as a TV series on Netflix.
Splinter Cell Becoming a TV Series
Splinter Cell has been ordered as a 16 episode, animated series by Netflix. Writer and producer of John Wick, Derek Kolstad is going to be putting his skills to the test as the series writer and executive producer. So, it looks like Splinter Cell fans are going to be seeing even more of their favourite black ops hero.
Click below to find out more https://za.ign.com/splinter-cell-movie/145753/news/splinter-cell-netflix-animated-series-in-the-works-with-john-wick-creator