‘Twende’ is Showmax’s first original 2D animation series. Image: supplied.
‘Twende’: Meet boda boda-driving pangolin in new trailer
Showmax released the first trailer for ‘Twende’ – their first original 2D animation series coming this December.
‘Twende’ is Showmax’s first original 2D animation series. Image: supplied.
Showmax has unveiled the trailer for Twende, their first Original 2D animated series which will premiere on 4 December.
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WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT ‘TWENDE’
Showmax released the first trailer for Twende, the first Showmax Original 2D animated series. Twende follows a pangolin of the same name, the slowest moving animal in the savannah.
“Twende’s belief that, ‘life is about the journey, not the destination’ is constantly at odds with his job as a boda boda driver in the bustling, fictional East African city of Milima,” said South African showrunner Greig Cameron.
The pilot of Twende’ wasscreened in competition at Annecy, the world’s premier animation festival, in 2021.
Twende is voiced by Junior Nyong’o, while June Gachui plays his unlikely best friend and navigator, Nuru – a whip-smart bird who always looks out for her bestie, even if his chilled-out vibe drives her crazy sometimes.
Nuru is a lilac-breasted roller, Kenya’s national bird.
Elsaphan Njora voices Boss, the perennially broke and exhausted hyena who owns the boda boda agency where Nuru and Twende work. He’s a single dad with more mouths to feed than he can count.
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WATCH THE TRAILER HERE
The all-Kenyan voice cast also includes Charles Ouda as showy stunt driver Kimbe and Mkamzee Mwatela as Boss’s rival, Madam Mongoose, CEO of the evil tech empire Goober.
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