NEWS! Disney Teams Up With Pan-African Company and Will Bring ‘Iwaju’ Series to Disney+!

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We’ve got one more animated series to tell you all about. This new show will feature unique art and storytelling like we haven’t seen before!

Iwaju means “The Future” in the Yoruba language, and it also happens to be the title of the new series by Walt Disney Studios. The company teamed up with Kugali, a Pan-African entertainment company, to create a science fiction series coming to Disney+. The series is set in Lagos and will venture to “deep themes of class, innocence and challenging the status quo”. You can see a sneak peek of the artwork in Disney’s tweet below!

In a first-of-its-kind collaboration, @DisneyAnimation and Pan-African entertainment company Kugali will team up to create an all-new, science fiction series coming to @DisneyPlus in 2022: Iwájú. Check out a first look at visual development art from the series. pic.twitter.com/x46dreKcu0

— Disney (@Disney) December 11, 2020

The new series will debut in 2022. So much more content is coming to Disney+ including the premiere of Raya and the Last Dragon and the live-action remake of Pinocchio. Other new animated series will be based on Moana, Zootopia, Big Hero 6, and Princess and the Frog. 

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