Niuma, a video game character has been brought alive in a comic book through a partnership facilitated by French Embassy (Institut Français Ghana).  Leti Arts (Ghana) and Blind Bend Studios (France) have teamed up to create ‘Blind Frontiers: Niuma’s Tale’, outdooring the first Super Heroine with Albinism from Africa!

Like all children in Wadis City, Niuma dreams of exploring the outside world. Her disability excludes her from the other children, who rub shoulders with her only to make fun of her. Besides, she has bad blood with her adoptive sister, Hadja who finds pleasure in humiliating her.

To have their approval, Niuma spends her free time making her prosthetic arms and goggles. But with scrap materials, she struggles to have fine results. Still, she remains stubborn.One day, Niuma decides to follow a group of children, against their will, including her adoptive sisters in a forbidden exploration far from the slum.

The children find themselves face to face with an old machine that they accidentally reactivate. It started shooting on sight, making it impossible to return to the slum. Niuma will manage to end the attack, by entering into the machine and disabling it.

She will then realize her full potential. Her ability will not only save the children from certain death, but also save the entire population, who was going to a death from starvation. Adults of Wadis City, including N’A, knew about these machines, which prevented them from expanding their territory securely.

It turns out that Niu is the only one who knows how to tame the machines of the Wadis, which also constitutes better resources to manufacture and increase her new arm and bionic glasses.

Niuma

Niuma has blue eyes and golden hair, a creamy complexion with light stains from sun burn. She still has a cap on her head. She has rather dense, frizzy hair that goes above her shoulders. Furthermore, she had a bad vision with nystagmus

Heroic Features

She has a mechanical arm that allow her to mind controlled other mechanics, as well as zoom glasses 

Niuma’s superpower

Niuma got the power to have an innate understanding of mechanics with no study. That means she can create, repair and analyze all kinds of mechanics stuff. Her only limit is the resources that are limited in her world.

Niuma’s personality

As smart as she is, with a fearless personality, she seems to be assertive, but actually lacks self-esteem. She is easily distracted from the work at hand at times. She has retrograde amnesia and is not able to remember a past when she had both arms.But it did not seem to have any repercussions in her life. She gets angry easily, that cause other children to make more fun of her, in order to “Unleashed the beast”

Leti Arts launched the comic book as part of  hosting French artist in residence, Mrs. Teninke Camara, with the support of Institut Français Ghana and Institut Français Paris.

Eyram Tawia, CEO and Co-founder of Leti Arts, commented: “We wish to express our profound gratitude for the great investment made into Niuma’s birth. This gesture is not only going to help print more copies, but would go a long way down in the history of games and comics on the African continent.. that proud feeling that you were part of the inception of an iconic character becoming a voice for persons with Albinism globally.”