People often think of the countries in Africa as not having much in the way of anything, a stereotype that doesn't reflect a much more complicated truth. This article isn’t about that. It’s about Go Nagai’s UFO Robot Grendizer and how much he meant to people growing up in the Francophone Côte D’Ivoire.
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