Obaranda

OBARANDA!
The Obaranda header image features two men and two women taking a selfie.
Author(s)	Justin Irabor
Website	http://obaranda.com
Current status / schedule	Weekly webcomic (updates on Sundays
Launch date	July 2016
Genre(s)	Sitcom/humor/adventure

Obaranda.com is a weekly Nigerian webcomic created in July 2016 that runs non-continuous gags about occurrences peculiar to the Nigerian condition. A new 'episode' is posted every Sunday. The gags and sketches are made by Justin Irabor with contributions from his readers and subscribers.

The comic features several characters readers have eventually gotten familiar with, including Black God, achromadog, the Obaranda Goat (called 'Jones') and Malik.

Obaranda started as a nameless comic strip run infrequently by Justin on Twitter, reacting with humor to trending topics involving Nigerian people and situations, until he eventually announced on May 20, 2016 that he would be creating a comic platform away from the social media website targeted at Nigerians. The platform was created in July but began to post regular episodes in September.

Obaranda first became popular when a meme, called the 'E go be' meme created by Justin on Twitter went viral on July 7, 2016. Shortly after, the website was created and it became a digital comic.

The first set of comics were random and without a pattern, until late September 2016 when the website finally had a slogan: "The Nigerian Condition, Illustrated", and from then on it became a webcomic series pointing out the hilariousness of living in Nigeria.

The website recorded its first external validation from Konbini Afterwards, it was featured on Pulse.ng, a top Nigerian entertainment and lifestyle website.

Obaranda continues to publish weekly comics reflecting life in Nigeria, with themes running on the trolling of the Nigerian metro life, Ponzi schemes, pastors and prophets in Nigeria and other social themes.

Obaranda has a motley collection of characters, some of them appearing only once and never again. There are a handful of regulars, however, and they include: