In 2021, Pan-African entertainment studio Kugali vowed to kick Disney’s ass — and Disney chief creative officer Jennifer Lee was so into it that she partnered up with Kugali. After three years, the ...

The Iwájú Season 1 Disney Plus release date is almost around the corner, and viewers are wondering when they can start streaming the TV series as it has been delayed for quite some time. Iwájú is an ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Image Credits: Disney Plus Iwájú is an animated adventure drama series, created by Hamid Ibrahim, Olufikayo Ziki Adeola, and ...

Kugali marks the inaugural partnership for Disney Animation Studios in its century-long history. “I think I was maybe 11 and Ziki was like nine when we met,” Olowofoyeku tells ESSENCE. “And since then ...

Update (Sep. 8, 2022): During the 2022 D23 expo, Disney revealed a first look image at Iwájú, showing off the two young protagonists and a futuristic-looking lizard creature, with flying drones around ...

LOS ANGELES -- Walt Disney Animation and Kugali Media's collaboration to bring audiences "Iwájú" has garnered a positive response across the African Diaspora. The new, action-packed, sci-fi, coming-of ...

Walt Disney Animation Studios and the pan-African entertainment company Kugali revealed the first images of their hotly anticipated Disney Plus original series “Iwájú” during a presentation Wednesday ...

They had met at Whitesands School, the private secondary school for boys in Lekki, and became friends, making scrappy mangas and comics on notebooks. On the podcast, they held court on digital design ...

Iwaju was announced during D23 and will be an animated series coming to Disney Plus sometime in 2023. Not much was said about the upcoming series, but it will be set in a futuristic Lagos, Nigeria. It ...

Produced by Disney Animation’s Christina Chen, directed by Olufikayo Ziki Adeola (who also writes the scripts alongside Halima Hudson), with production designer Hamid Ibrahim and cultural consultant ...

Among the shows and movies talked about at D23 Expo earlier this month was the previously announced Pan-African animated series, Iwájú. The series marks a major first for Disney as its setting is not ...