The 20-minute episodes are packed with recognisable features of the city, from its island geography right down to street vendors selling Lagosian cuisine.
A new animated Disney series set in a futuristic Lagos has won over its first viewers with a sci-fi play on life in the megacity.
From Lagos slangs to lagoon markets and traffic jams, the Disney+ six-parter “Iwaju” captures everyday urban details and catapults them into a future bristling with high-tech gadgets where some of the city’s present-day problems persist.
It marks Disney’s first collaboration with an outside studio and part of a drive to feature more African animations, which have long been neglected by big foreign entertainment companies.
Ahead of its release on Wednesday, media attended a preview with the series’ creators at the IMAX Lekki in Lagos.
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“Iwaju”, which means ‘future’ in Yoruba, was dreamt up by the pan-African entertainment company Kugali, founded in 2017 by Nigerians Olufikayo ‘Ziki’ Adeola and Tolu Olowofoyeku, and Hamid Ibrahim, a Ugandan.
The three suited young men made a grand entrance on the red carpet at the screening on Tuesday night, which was also attended by Nollywood stars and Nigeria’s culture minister.
