GAME ON!
THE YOUNGEST continent in the world has a new obsession – mobile gaming. What’s newer is local content created by Africans for Africa.
Take 39-year-old Khumo Moerane, the developer of Kea’s World and founder of the Africa Space Programme Video Games Studio in Johannesburg, South Africa.
He is using a modern medium to tell old tales, celebrating and preserving African folklore among children and adults.
Today, he solely designs and develops African video games. And has reached another level altogether.
The scene was set in the late 1980s, in Ga-Rankuwa, a large settlement in the north-west of Pretoria, the capital of South Africa, when his parents bought him his first console, a third-generation 8-bit home video game called Sega Master System. He was instantly hooked.
“But back then, you were like ‘man, there are no South Africans or Africans that are making games’. So, in this sense, it was almost like a far-fetched dream; something that would never happen,” he tells FORBES AFRICA.
After studying graphic design, Moerane moved
