title: "SAH — Press & Media Kit"
type: press-kit
project: SAH
tags:
Forge the bow. Hold the wall. Inherit a kingdom.
Before the pyramids cast their shadow, a kingdom of gold rose on the Nile — and it was yours to defend.
For voice and positioning, see [[MISSION_STATEMENT]] and [[MESSAGING_FRAMEWORK]].
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| Studio | Sankofa Studios (legal name: Sankofa Studio LLC) |
| What it is | An Afrocentric studio making games, music, art, video, and goods for the African Diaspora |
| Divisions | Sankofa Games · AFRICANA.fyi · Sankofa Music · Sankofa Goods |
| Mission | Good, positive, strong, smart, capable people of African descent as heroes of their own history |
| The name | Sankofa is an Akan word — "go back and get it." The Sankofa bird flies forward while looking back, carrying the egg of the future |
| Team | A solo Black developer and dad |
| Website / funnel | Africana.fyi |
| First release | Prince Shabaka of Kerma in the Land of the Bow — August 4, 2026 |
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| Title | Prince Shabaka of Kerma in the Land of the Bow (SAH) |
| Developer | Sankofa Games, a division of Sankofa Studios — solo developer |
| Genre | Story-rich historical adventure |
| Setting | Kerma, Kingdom of Kush — the Nile Valley, 1700 BCE |
| Platforms | Steam (Windows / Mac / Linux); mobile planned post-launch |
| Release date | Tuesday, August 4, 2026 |
| Price | $14.99–19.99 (Steam) · $6.99–9.99 (mobile, later) |
| Players | Single-player |
| Audience | Ages 10–14 (grades 5–9); parents, homeschoolers, and classrooms |
| Rating | E10+ / PEGI 7 target — stylized bow combat, no blood or gore |
| Languages | English (interface + subtitles; no recorded voice audio — read-aloud uses system voices) |
| Length | 30–60 minutes per full playthrough; three endings, replayable |
| Kid-safe | No ads, no accounts, no data collection — safe by architecture |
| Press contact | [CONTACT — via Africana.fyi] |
Kerma, 1700 BCE. You are Shabaka, 13, the bowmaker's grandson. Build a real composite bow, defend the African city of gold. Every fact sourced.
Before Egypt's shadow fell, the African kingdom of Kerma ruled the Nile. You are Prince Shabaka, 13, grandson of the royal bowmaker. Craft a real composite bow layer by layer, learn from a living Bronze Age city, and hold the wall against invasion — in a story where every claim is sourced like a textbook.
Prince Shabaka of Kerma in the Land of the Bow is a story-rich historical adventure set in 1700 BCE Kerma — the city of gold, first great kingdom on the Nile, home of the ancient world's most feared archers. As Shabaka, 13, crown prince and the royal bowmaker's grandson, you build your own composite bow — wood, horn, sinew — learn from the fisherman, the scribe, and the Medjay scout, then face a siege you can genuinely lose. Inside the adventure is a rigorous, fully sourced STEM and African history curriculum: physics, materials science, math, and the real story of Kush — no worksheets, everything learned by doing. Three endings. Made by one Black dad and developer.
I'm one Black dad and developer, and I built this game because I got tired of history that starts in 1619.
Seven and a half thousand years ago, in the green Sahara, African astronomers built the world's first observatory and calculated the rains. Their descendants built Kerma — the city of gold, the first great kingdom on the Nile, home of the most feared archers of the ancient world. Kush would go on to build more pyramids than Egypt and produce a queen who fought Rome to a treaty. Almost none of that is in the textbooks my kids were handed.
So I made it playable. SAH looks and plays like the adventure game it is — you build a bow, you walk a city, you hold a wall — but inside it is a curriculum sourced like a textbook, because facts this strong don't need inflation. My rule for every frame: strong, smart, capable people of African descent, finally the heroes of their own story. I want a kid to finish this game knowing their ancestors did it — so they know they can too.
"The history your textbooks skipped — playable."
"It looks like a high-end indie adventure game. Inside is a rigorous STEM and pre-enslavement African history curriculum. It's a Trojan horse, and I'm proud of that."
"Everything you learn, you learn by doing — your care at the bow bench becomes your power on the wall."
"I got tired of history starting in 1619, so I built a game where kids learn 8th-grade physics by building Bronze Age African technology."
"No ads, no accounts, no data collection. Kid-safe isn't a policy here — it's the architecture."
SAH is sourced like a textbook. Every historical claim in the game traces to the archaeological record and mainstream scholarship — UNESCO's General History of Africa, peer-reviewed research, and the artifacts themselves — and the in-game Royal Library ends each entry with a "Go look" pointer so players (and journalists) can verify it. Kerma, the Deffufa, Nubian composite-bow craft, the Medjay, Nabta Playa's astronomy, and Amanirenas's war with Rome are all documented history. The studio's full source list is available to press on request ([CONTACT — via Africana.fyi]); a parent/teacher curriculum guide maps every game moment to the concept and source behind it.
High-resolution files available in the press folder / on request:
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| Sankofa Studios logo | LOGOfinal.jpg (in SAH Teaser stuff/) |
| Key art / menu hero | Photos/scene_menu_hero.jpg |
| Steam capsule (master) | Photos/SAH _capsule_master.jpg |
| Kerma city architecture | Kerma Architecture.jpg (in SAH Teaser stuff/) |
| Nabta Playa scene | Photos/scene_nabta_playa.jpg |
| Teaser video (16:9, latest) | videos/sah_teaser_16x9_v10.mp4 |
| "Coming Soon" announcement video (16:9) | videos/sah_coming_soon_16x9_v1.mp4 |
| Teaser video (9:16, vertical / social) | videos/sah_teaser_9x16_v1.mp4 |
Additional stills (Deffufa, city views, characters) available in Photos/. Gameplay screenshots and the launch trailer will be added ahead of the Steam Coming Soon page.
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| Press & review keys | [CONTACT — via Africana.fyi] |
| Partnerships & education | [CONTACT — via Africana.fyi] |
| General | [CONTACT — via Africana.fyi] |
| Web | Africana.fyi |
| Studio | Sankofa Studios (Sankofa Studio LLC) |
Prince Shabaka of Kerma in the Land of the Bow launches Tuesday, August 4, 2026 on Steam. Wishlist now.
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