Over the past few years, a growing middle class that looking for entertainment has resulted in Nigerian movies and music sweeping across the continent, as sub-Saharan Africa becomes increasingly connected online. Now game publishers hope to achieve the same Success
. astonishing 21 million Last year Nigerians bought an mobile phones, so more and more people are looking for entertaining apps and games.
The global video game industry is now worth $66 billion more than Hollywood but so far many of the games produced have been rather unexciting and predictable. In contrast, Maliyo aims to produce something clever, amusing, and definitely African.
As well as Sharp Sule, Maliyo has also recently produced another highly enjoyable game, Mosquito smasher. Like many video games, it's quite violent but the only things that get hurt are the mosquitos, a constant irritation in Lagos and in many other countries around the world
In fact, the games do seem to have a worldwide appeal European companies have already copied Mosquito smasher and Nigerian company Gamsole, which a few months ago became the first in the region to gain more than 1 million downloads, said most of its fans log in from Brazil, India and the US.