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wema, photographs zeulenroda 03/93

krücke, jörg grünler 1993

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Wema Bank Empowers 100,000 MSMEs In Ekiti State

Wema Bank, Nigeria’s foremost innovative bank and pioneer of Africa’s first fully digital bank, ALAT, has partnered with the Ekiti State Government through the Ministry of Wealth Creation and Employment to launch the Ekiti-Wema MSME Empowerment Programme for youth and businesses in Ekiti State. Launched on Monday, August 5th, 2024, the Ekiti-Wema MSME Empowerment Programme is an initiative…

Wema Bank Empowers 100,000 MSMEs In Ekiti State

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TLG: Battle for the Pridelands Sketches

To celebrate the 5th Anniversary of one of my favorite episodes of TLG, I decided to do some sketches of some takeaways I had during a rewatch of the episode:

1. Wema, Tunu, Dogo, and Kijana aged up to how old I think they'd be around the time of the episode. Why were they not aged up?? Kiara, Tiifu, Zuri, and Mtoto were given some specific age models only used in this episode, why not the Outlander kids? I feel the jackals would be the equivalent to 12 years old by this time, while Wema and Tunu would be like 8-year-old kids.

2. I've heard people ask where the zebras and baboons were during the final battle, and for a while I was like "Yeah aren't they significant recurring characters? Where even were they in the Pridelands Army arc of Season 2?", but THEN it dawned on me: Baboon. Zebra. Cavalry. When watching the scene where everyone charges to the Outlands, I saw the galagos riding the sable antelope and went "haha like horses, that'd be funny if it was with zebras because equines", then I was like "baboons would probably be like humans while riding zebras" and I was just "WAIT IS THAT WHY PEOPLE WANTED THOSE ANIMALS IN THIS EPISODE". So here we are, Big Baboon and Thurston team up to surprise the Outlanders (and even the Pridelanders) by doing what they do best -- throwing fruit and panicking and running, respectively.

3. A sketch of this sudden visual I got during Ushari and Scar's conversation where Scar promised that Ushari and the rest of the reptiles would have whatever's left of the ravaged Pridelands. I instantly imagined the Pridelands becoming this unrecognizable wasteland ideal only for heat-seeking reptiles after the disastrous volcanic eruption Scar had in mind. The environment would be a tad like something out of the Mesozoic era.

4. One of my favorite aspects of this episode: The famous important-as-hell-but-vaguely-presented lore drop of the Strange Lion's (actually pretty ambiguous) existence as well as his actions accelerating Scar's entitlement and envy of Mufasa (which would kickstart the very premise of the first movie and the franchise as we know it). I love this guy's design for the same reason I love Zira's -- it's just so consistent in shapes and colors that all match with each other.

5. I find it funny that in order to not interfere with the events of TLK 2, TLG just decided to have it so the Outsiders would be completely out of the loop of the fact that Scar's spirit returned. It could easily be explained that Scar kept Zira out of it on purpose, or that he didn't know (and possibly didn't care) that she was still around. I have to think that the Outsiders don't live too far from the Outlands Volcano, so they've had to have heard some commotion and wonder what on earth could be going on. Looks like Zira's fanatic spiritual connection with her beloved Scar can apparently be heard by her peers.

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not sure why i assumed wema and tunu were madoa's kids canonically but they're not listed to be! still, if anything, i think madoa and jasiri are their main babysitters lol

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WEMA - Luanje Pt. 1

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TLG kids all grown up

Felt like aging up some characters who may or may not have been properly aged up throughout TLG's run (Mtoto's age in Season 3 was at least biologically accurate, not aging up Dogo and Kijana in Battle for the Pridelands and not reintroducing Wema and Tunu as teenagers anywhere in S3 was a huge missed opportunity) Anyway some headcanons below:

Wema and Tunu: While drawing away at Wema and Tunu, I came up with poses for them that reminded me of the composition of some sort of "adventurous young group exploring a mythical world" fantasy book genre, so I went somewhere along those lines. Wema looks up to her clan leader Jasiri and wants to be a brave, diplomatic hero just like her, making her the more adventurous one of the duo. Tunu hasn't quite grown out of his timidness, and constantly persuades his sister to consider the danger, but to no avail. Despite being twins, they grew to have different body types. Wema became broad and chubby while Tunu took a more slender build. (Their dynamic kinda parallels real hyenas in a way, a brave female and a passive male). Dogo and Kijana: Reirei's two favorite children -- as they take the most after her in possessing cunning, scheming minds -- struggle to separate themselves from their mother to find their true selves on their own, serving as respective antitheses to fellow former Outland neighbors Kovu and Vitani, who have separated from their very own cunning, controlling mother. Dogo grew too old to use his signature cute puppy charm -- the only power he knew besides a cunning, manipulative thinking pattern -- and has since become lost and without much purpose. He has since become a bitter, reclusive, yet mostly harmless young adult jackal. In a way, he suffers from a bit of a former child star complex. Kijana has taken to a rather rough-and-tumble life as a fighter and active breadwinner of the family. She combines her mother's cunning charm skills into successful hunts as well as besting other animals in scuffles when it comes to food competition. Mtoto: Mtoto has grown into the strong elephant he always wanted to be. He has become a wise mentor to the Pridelands' young herd animals, teaching them to defend themselves and each other during threats. For an even longer time, he has served as basically a tank during major threats. Since elephants age significantly slower than many animals seen in TLK/TLG, his time as a mentor probably takes place years into the future, long after Simba's and even Kiara's rule.

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LUANJE PT. 1, by WEMA

from the album WEMA

wema -- luanje pt. 1