Entrepreneur, Author & Children’s Media Producer.

I’m Louisa Kiwana Olafuyi, Co-founder and COO of Kunda Kids,
a fast-scaling children’s media company, and the creator of the popular children’s animated shows Kunda and Friends and Thandi’s Playtime.

A former senior marketing and innovation leader, I’ve built and repositioned products within global institutions including Unilever, Cambridge University Press, the BBC, Diageo and WPP, delivering strategy and growth at scale.

Today, I am architecting a new era of children’s media, bold African stories told with premium production and global ambition. Across books, animation, music and digital platforms, I build intellectual property designed to foster literacy, confidence and cognitive growth.

As a mother of three, including twins and a neurodiverse child, and in close community with parents and educators, I am deeply committed to shaping stories that strengthen identity, nurture curiosity and expand what children believe is possible.

As featured on:

The Children’s Media Blind Spot

By 2040, nearly half of the world’s children will be of African heritage, yet only 2–5% of global children’s content reflects them.

Underrepresentation in children’s media is structural, driven by limited investment, weak distribution and outdated assumptions about what scales.

My work tackles this at the system level. I build culturally grounded children’s IP to international production standards, pairing strong storytelling with a clear commercial strategy. I focus not only on creation, but on distribution, licensing and unlocking capital so African stories compete and scale globally.

Children’s Shows

Original animated preschool IPs that I’ve created and produced, blending culture, music and learning through play.

Kunda and Friends (2023)
Kunda Kids

Credits: Co-Creator, Writer, Series Producer

Thandi’s Playtime (2026)
Kunda Kids

Credits: Co-Creator, Writer, Series Producer

Awards & Recognition

Children’s Books

Award-winning children’s books I’ve written, rooted in culture and designed to inspire confidence and develop literacy, speech and language development.