The Lost Comb of Mawu
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In the beginning, Mawu, a West African deity, created worlds and companions. She crafted a man from stone and gifted him a powerful comb that, when donned in his hair, completes his grounding with the world, granting him the power of the earthly elements. Centuries later, a young woman named Esi discovers the comb and must embrace her hidden heritage to save her world. Written, designed and built in Ghana.
Award-winning
The Lost Comb of Mawu took the 2024 Audience Award for Best Animated Film at the Essence Film Festival, an early sign that African-owned, African-made worldbuilding can win audiences on a global stage.
Watch the unfolding Afrofuturist series, from teaser and visual development to story clips, on the BrakoVerse channel.
Open on YouTube →In the beginning, Mawu, a West African deity, created worlds and companions. She crafted a man from stone and gifted him a powerful comb that, when donned in his hair, completes his grounding with the world, granting him the power of the earthly elements.
Centuries later, a young woman named Esi discovers the mystical artifact and becomes entangled in conflict with the envious Afro Solar Punk Prince, who seeks the comb for destructive purposes.
To save her world from destruction, Esi must embrace her hidden heritage as a demigod's daughter. With courage, ingenuity and the bonds of friendship, she embarks on a quest that will change the fate of their cosmos forever.
Chapter I
In the cosmology of the Ewe and Fon peoples, Mawu is the creator: the lunar mother who shaped the world and combed the threads of life into order. Her comb is no ornament. It is the instrument of creation itself, each tooth a strand of memory binding the living to the ancestors.
Chapter II
When the comb is lost to the world, the threads begin to unravel. Memory fades from the land. Technology forgets its purpose. The realms of the living, the dead and the not-yet-born drift apart, and the future itself starts coming undone.
Chapter III
Esi never asked to matter. But the comb calls to whom it calls, and an unlikely young woman must cross realms where ancestral memory and future technology collide, gathering what was scattered, to weave the world back together.
Chapter IV
She does not walk alone. The great elephant, guardian of memory and symbol of strength in Akan tradition, stands at the threshold of the old world, testing whether the one who seeks the comb carries the heart to hold it.
Meet the cast of The Lost Comb of Mawu. Tap a character to view their design, or watch the animation piece where one exists. Full character sheets are on the way.
Why this world matters
Global entertainment runs on interconnected story universes, and while Hollywood strip-mines its comic catalogues, West Africa holds thousands of years of cosmology global screens have never touched. The Lost Comb of Mawu is BrakoVerse’s claim on that frontier: original African IP, designed for film, games and immersive media, owned at home and built to a Hollywood standard.
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