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‘African Children Deserve to See Their Own Heroes’: Afrika Toon Founder Abel N’guessan Kouame’s Vision for the Future (EXCLUSIVE)
AfrikaToon founder Abel Kouame drives African animation forward with local heroes, global ambitions and self-reliance amid funding challenges.
With a spate of projects underway, from the fifth season of its flagship series “La Petite Pokou” to a new TV5Monde co-production, “Gbassman,” about the adventures of a young Ivorian superhero, Kouame is focused more than ever on crafting local tales with universal themes. That philosophy shines through in the upcoming fifth season of “La Petite Pokou,” reuniting with the beloved princess from the historical Kingdom of Kumasi in Ghana on a quest to regain her recently lost superpowers, powers that helped her care for her community. While the past few years have seen turbulence across the global animation landscape, from Disney to smaller European houses like TeamTO, Kouame remains confident that Africa’s storytelling riches will continue to captivate audiences.
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