On our Africa Now segment; Africology had the opportunity to hang with the Eyram Tawia and the Leti Arts crew in Accra,Ghana and discussed the importance of having African based characters in creating self awareness and representation in the comic and gaming industry.
Eyram talks about his love for comics and video games that helped to spur his interest to learn to program at an early age, he co-founded Leti Arts on his conviction that Africa will make a salient contribution to the world of game development thus helped to pioneer the industry.
Leti’s mission is to bring an authentic Africa to a worldwide audience, through meaningful games and digital comics. We celebrate our continent’s vast histories, folklores and cultures, placing them against a backdrop of the real world contemporary Africa – proving that African-created content has an essential place on the global stage.
