Bino and Fino: The New Kids on the Block

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Submitted by Yemisi Akinbobola on Mon, 04/04/2011 - 10:56am

For architect turned animator, Adamu Waziri, the children media in Nigeria, and indeed in Africa as a whole, is in need of a rebirth.

His creation, Bino and Fino are his contribution to this reawakening of an industry that does not get as much appreciation as it should.

“Animation doesn’t sell as a career prospect back home,” Adamu told me in an interview. “Children media is something we need, and I couldn’t understand why we didn’t have it”.

Adamu, like many talented artists in Nigeria, trained as an architect as plan B because of its better career prospects in the country. However, after starting a successful career in architecture, he decided to return to him love of the arts, Bino and Fino were born.

“I wanted to create cartoons for kids like the ones we watched in the UK and the USA”, he continued.

“Bino and Fino is a young children’s cartoon that is educational and fun in a modern urban African environment.”

“I didn’t want it to be set in the village, I wanted to challenge the stereotype, so a kid watching in Japan or the UK, are watching on the same level; maybe a slightly different culture but the same technology.”

“There are lots of talented artists out there that are not profiting from their skills”, Adamu lamented.

“I would like to see the industry grow as Nigeria taps into its creative industries”.

I asked Adamu how he came up with the name Bino and Fino for his characters: “I didn’t want it to be too locked down”, he said. “I wanted something abstract”.