URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika

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URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika
Created bySean Rogers
StarringAnelisa Phewa, Nick Pauling, Precious Kofi, Mike Westcott, Cokey Falkow, Nicola Jackman, Siphokazi January
Country of originSouth Africa
No. of episodes104 [1]
Production
Running time26 mins [2]
Original release
Network SABC3
Release28 October 2006 (2006-10-28)

URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika is a South African science fiction animated television series created by the animation department of Octagon CSI, which later became Clockwork Zoo. It started airing in October 2006, and ran until November 2009. It chronicles the adventures of a gang of teenagers who live in a futuristic Cape Town, renamed iKapa City, the last known city on the planet, as they fight the evil industrialist overlord Maximilian Malice.

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Pax Afrika, the son of the missing explorer Zingela Afrika, discovers that he has ancestral powers that allow him to see flashes of the future. Together with his friends, emo mechanic T-Man, hacker girl Keitu, and Una, Malice's rebellious daughter, Pax plans to find his father and save the city from Malice Industries. But his fate is also tied to the mysterious, hidden city of URBO - an environmental El Dorado located somewhere in the ruins of Africa.

The show's head writer was science fiction novelist Lauren Beukes.

SABC3 began airing the first 52-part series on 28 October 2006.

URBO was rebroadcast on SABC2 in 2017.[ citation needed ]

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  1. http://clockworkzoo.com/articles/portfolio/urbo/ [ dead link ]
  2. http://clockworkzoo.com/articles/portfolio/urbo/ [ dead link ]