Structural Shift in Africa's Position in the Global Games Industry
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TLDR
- Part 3: Africa Must Own Its Digital Future The significance of Africa’s emerging games industry extends well beyond entertainment.
- Rather than asking whether Africa can produce globally competitive games, publishers should increasingly ask how many opportunities they may already have overlooked.
- Japan’s tourism industry has benefited from decades of global interest generated through games, anime and popular culture.
- A successful game today may become a television series tomorrow, a graphic novel the following year and a global consumer brand shortly thereafter.
- For Africa, this may become one of the defining characteristics of the coming decade.