The triumphant return of Barumbaland

The series formerly known as BaRuuba’s Adventures is going to be heavily revised into three series, Barumba the Wild Jungle SnowBoy, Barumba’s Adventures and BarumbaLand. 

BarumbaLand seems to have a bigger amount of long term potential, given that it’s going to heavily show the increasing international impact of both regional Ugandan mythologies and Salgarian style adventures for people who aren’t interested in both Karl May and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Then again, Emilio Salgari already made a posthumously huge impact on Yoichiro Minami, thus he also has inspired two whole generations of creatives. 

Barumba has about three sons, starting with the eldest named Barkha. 

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