If you are as old as me, you grew up on Tom & Jerry, Captain Planet, and other cartoons from this era. But we really never noticed any black people on cartoons. Something that we probably took for granted is that we were very impressionable at that age we were watching cartoons. What we see is what we want to be. This is why Bino & Fino came at perfect timing considering how the media like to portray black people.

The idea for the Bino & Fino cartoon series came about around 2007. The creator of the show, Adamu Waziri, realised that there was a massive lack of true African made children’s educational cartoon shows. In Nigeria at the time there were no indigenous cartoon shows that showed children a reflection of themselves. All the cartoon shows were imported and had no link to Africa in anyway.

Children are highly impressionable and the human brains learning capacity is the most between 0-6 years. Children’s media is one of the most powerful when it comes to shaping minds. So the fact that children across the world had no cartoon they could watch that genuinely taught them about Africa or represented the continent in a proper way was a worrying one.

The Bino & Fino Cartoon Show was created to help rectify this imbalance.