Games, longform articles

Diverse Games: The Rise of Africa’s Gaming Industry — Medea’s Media

Games are a powerful medium for everyone to learn life skills, yet the characterisation in games – a bias towards white male characters – appeals only to a fraction of worldwide gamers. The need for diversity of characters has been the subject of frequent debate around the mainstream gaming industry. While those talks have been… Diverse Games: The rise of Africa’s gaming industry — Medea’s Media Continue reading Diverse Games: The Rise of Africa’s Gaming Industry — Medea’s Media

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Anime & Comics

Niuma’s Tale: Comic chronicles the story of West African superheroine with albinism

The back story of video game character, Niuma – the first superheroine with Albinism from West Africa – is the subject of a new comic book, Blind Frontier: Niuma’s Tale. The story follows the adventures of Niuma and her struggles with nystagmus, involuntary movement of the eyes. Like all children in Wadis City, Niuma dreams of exploring the outside world. Her disability excludes her from the … Continue reading Niuma’s Tale: Comic chronicles the story of West African superheroine with albinism

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Creativity & Spirituality

Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind Body & Soul: Simple — Rosalind Medea

Everything in life is designed to be simple, because that is how the Divine Source created it to be. Even when we are dealing with “complex” situations we may find ourselves in, the solution is always going to be a simple one. That is also true of accepting and acknowledging one’s true self. Embracing your […] Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind Body & Soul: Simple — … Continue reading Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind Body & Soul: Simple — Rosalind Medea

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Music

Artist Spotlight: DIVINEANGEL

DIVINEANGEL are a London-based duo, who with their fusion of afro-rhythms, soul and psychedelic rock, create music and lyrics with the intention to motivate, inspire, heal, unite, and to remind listeners of their truth, their inner truth. A collaboration between Yoruba-British artist muva of Earth and Asante-British artist, Angel SEKA, the friends describe their sounds as “Afro-futuristic Punk”. Earlier this year, DIVINEANGEL released their first … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: DIVINEANGEL

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Creativity & Spirituality

Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind Body & Soul: Divine Right — Rosalind Medea

You may or may not be presently undergoing a major “house clearing” of spiritual, physical, energetic kinds. Those things that you have allowed in to your world that do not belong are getting shoved out – that includes everything from clothes, electronics, people, things, places, energies, etc. Such changes may, for some, have been ongoing […] Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind Body & Soul: Divine Right … Continue reading Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind Body & Soul: Divine Right — Rosalind Medea

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Anime & Comics

Comicgen tool helping storytellers to become comic strip creators

Comicgen is a tool that makes it possible for storytellers to get their message across using comicstrip format. Developed by Gramener, Comicgen is a comic creator that adds comic characters whose characteristics such as expression, pose, and angle can be controlled by data. Comicgen aims to make storytelling with comics easy for everyone, including non-designers, non-programmers, and non-storytellers. The comic characters from Comicgen’s growing database … Continue reading Comicgen tool helping storytellers to become comic strip creators

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animation

Elemental: Pixar’s upcoming movie tells the story of two city-living elements, Ember and Wade

The elements – fire, water, earth and air – are the focus of Pixar Animation Studios’ upcoming movie, Elemental. The film journeys alongside two characters, Ember and Wade, a fire elemental and a water elemental live in “a city where fire, water, land, and air-residents all live together”. The fiery young woman, Ember, and the go-with-the-flow guy, Wade, are about to discover something elemental: “how … Continue reading Elemental: Pixar’s upcoming movie tells the story of two city-living elements, Ember and Wade

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Creativity & Spirituality

Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind, Body & Soul: Gifts — Rosalind Medea

Each of us are born onto this planet because there is something that each of us have that the planet requires. What qualities you are drawn to in nature is also that which is strong in you too. You’ve likely heard the expression “like energy attracts like energy” and while it is typically used when […] Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind, Body & Soul: Gifts — … Continue reading Medea’s Weekly Tonic for Mind, Body & Soul: Gifts — Rosalind Medea

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Poetry & Stories

Poem: Trail by Snail – Naturetelling

The rain drops, earth’s delights climb out of the “woodwork”, Watch your steps on the tiling, a snail is on the path. Take a seat on a dry garden chair and watch snail navigate,  Here to teach a thing or two about persistency and purpose. Antennas raised like eyebrows, moving trail by snail along,  Headed for the soil, ready to assist to decompose matter. Slow … Continue reading Poem: Trail by Snail – Naturetelling

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