*Tell us about your team: ‘SANAMU’ which was released late last year, it’s an Africa fantasy adventure about triplets who “Our team consists of 2 artists including myself set out on a mission to avenge their mother who a writer and a head of production who oversees was slain by an evil witch doctor. The other title the creation of the content both internal IPs and is ‘Beast from Venus’ a story inspired by the client works” mythology of the Nandi bear *What are some of the notable works that you * Any works in the pipeline? have done? Yes, we are currently working on MORAAN, A Our most notable work is a comic titled comic about a young Maasai youth who has to battle a beast terrorizing his community in the hopes that it will reinstate his outcast family. We are looking to have it released in the coming months. *What are some of the challenges that you are facing in the industry in Kenya? There is difficulty in getting Salim Busuru is a creative director at comic scene have been able to generate skilled, young talent who are Avandu studio who tells stories through interest in comic books and reach out to willing and ready for the heavy work that comics and illustrations. He is a Kenyans already deeply embedded in the is required to produce content. champion of the comic book art scene, nerd community. Proving, once again, that *Where do you see yourself in ten or pushing to get his content out despite a good comic is like a good partner; Rated fifteen years? the less than warm reception of comic R (when it needs to be), makes you think books in Kenya in the past; most peo- and leaves you unwilling to put it down. In ten years we will be the largest ple assume comics are childish without We sat down with Salim to discuss Avandu comic producer in Africa, with a ever giving them a chance. Through and their work. studio set up in Kenya to produce our social media, however, local productions. publishers and content creators in the Instagram: @avandu.af Facebook: @avanduvosi Twitter: @avanduvosi 50nd3k4 120 50nd3k4 121 50nd3k4 120 50nd3k4 121