Game developers draw on African stories to create new worlds

Eyram tawia always wanted to be a superhero. As a boy he was Wuzu, “the Great One”, sketching comic-book stories from his lair in the living room. It was the 1990s and the first video games were reaching Ghana: “beat ’em ups” such as “Mortal Kombat” and “Street Fighter”, which he played on a fake Nintendo console. He recalls waiting eight months to run a demo of “Tomb Raider”, rigging up a computer with parts sent from an uncle in Australia.