Iwájú

This was great! 🎊🎉 Even as an adult, I found it highly entertaining. Both parents and children can enjoy this together whether you are familiar with Nigerian culture or not. I appreciated how each episode allowed the main characters’ background to unravel. They didn’t just give it to us all at once. 👍This series ended much too soon!!! We must have more… Movie maybe?

Iwaju is a wonderful animated series kids and parents can enjoy. Disney did something incredibly different and reached out to Nigerian creatives. The Nigerian creators and cultural consultants made sure the characters were based on and represented a culture that exists... and it works very well. So congrats to Disney for working with Nigerians to bring cultural authenticity. Iwaju feels more real, grounded on real issues like friendships, parental hardships and poverty. Parents struggle with money, overwork, neglect and moral values. These are good themes to help kids cope with their own understanding of how the world works. Concerned parents will be happy to know Iwaju is finally a woke-free animation for kids to watch. Everyone knows Disney has been caught up with the 'Go Woke, go Broke' thing. Iwaju has no sexualizing themes or gender politics. In Iwaju a kid works hard to earn money to save his sick mother and wants to become a doctor to save her and have a better life. He struggles with powerful adults influencing him to do bad things, but ultimately he chooses to do the right thing. Now that's the type of strong characters Disney executives/creatives should do more. Overall Iwaju is a great family fun animated TV mini-series filled with interesting character arcs, engaging storylines and fantastic animation and production design. Some of the adults/villains can be a bit scary but not too much. Hopefully, we will see more of Iwaju, it's Nigerian creatives and Disney's bold new partnerships.