{"id":209457,"date":"2025-10-10T19:31:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-young-creator-pushes-boundaries-and-earns-recognition\/"},"modified":"2025-10-10T19:31:38","modified_gmt":"2025-10-10T17:31:38","slug":"botswana-young-creator-pushes-boundaries-and-earns-recognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/botswana\/botswana-young-creator-pushes-boundaries-and-earns-recognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Botswana: Young Creator Pushes Boundaries and Earns Recognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Gaborone \u2014 Taboka Tshane&#8217;s anim\u00e9 <em>Legend of the Cursed Knight<\/em> has earned international recognition at the World University Animation Awards (WUAA) in Hong Kong after it won the prestigious Rainbow Horizon Award.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Japan, the birthplace of anim\u00e9, continues to inspire young creators like 19 year-old Tshane, whose production marks a breakthrough for Botswana&#8217;s emerging animation industry.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Set in a fictional Botswana known as the Kingdom of Crimson, the fantasy-adventure-comedy series follows Setso,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510100184.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Botswana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/botswana\/\">Botswana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gaborone \u2014 Taboka Tshane&#8217;s anim\u00e9 Legend of the Cursed Knight has earned international recognition at the World University Animation Awards (WUAA) in Hong Kong after it won the prestigious Rainbow Horizon Award. Japan, the birthplace of anim\u00e9, continues to inspire young creators like 19 year-old Tshane, whose production marks a breakthrough for Botswana&#8217;s emerging animation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":209458,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2461],"tags":[258,256,4718,2462,20821,28293,9994,257,16296,16576,254,7720],"class_list":["post-209457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-botswana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-botswana","tag-botswana-news","tag-boundaries","tag-creator","tag-earns","tag-news","tag-pushes","tag-recognition","tag-south-africa-today","tag-young"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209457","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}