‘Meet ClaraBelle Blue’ is the first issue from the new exciting kids book series ‘ClaraBelle Blue’. The story revolves around ClaraBelle, a happy confident preschooler in a cute pink wheelchair who takes on skeptics, overcomes challenges, and shows the other kids at school how much like them she really is.
Nigeria throws up some interesting things every now and then. One such case of this is a school in Dutse, Abuja called the ‘Pinky and The Brain School’. That’s right ‘Pinky and the Brain ‘from the cartoon show. Above is a clip from the cartoon for those who don’t know it.
The school has been around for about 12 years
As you know we are very passionate about children’s animated content from Africa. Some of you have asked us if we know of any other projects like ours. There are a few projects in development or that are finished that we know of so we will list them here for you. The list is by no means complete as sometimes it is hard to get news about them. Where possible we try to show content produced in Africa with an educational slant. So here is the list and we’ll do our best to keep it up to date. Let us know of any you know as well.
Abeba and Abebe' is an animation series made in Ethiopia with kids, for kids, about… kids! Abeba and Abebe is the first ever animated series to be made in Ethiopia by and for Ethiopians. It follows a standard kids series format of 52 x 7 min episodes (that’s one story a week for a year!) and is aimed at an audience of 6 - 12 year olds. Here is the website.
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The Speak Yoruba App. Click to go to website.
Ever wanted to learn Yoruba? You can now! SpeakYoruba is a new app that uses cute animated flash cards, with one word representations of the Yoruba Alphabet, with English and Yoruba pronunciations that enable the user to interact with the alphabets through the iphone/ipad touch.
