Amir-Hamza
- Jun 3, 2020
- 3 min read

World Fighting Game Characters: Africa

Updated: Nov 3, 2021

Left to Right Egyptian Alsion III from Breakers, Kenyan Elena from Street Fighter and Kenyan Zazie Muhaba from Fighter's History

They say that the fighting game community (FGC) is one of the most diverse fan communities within the videogame industry. But not only is the community diverse. So are the characters in each game as many intend to represent a country and usually the martial art of said country. So we wanna list how diverse the Characters of fighting games are. To be clear the games that we will include feature characters who debut from these games. So no Injustice or Marvel vs Capcom or Smash Brothers characters. Just characters created for fighting games.

Fighting Games Included are 3 Count Bout, Aggressors of Dark Kombat, ARMS, Art of Fighting, Battle Arena Toshinden, Battle of the Beast Gods/Savage Reign, Breakers, Buriki One, Darkstalkers, Dead or Alive, Dual Blades, Ehrgeiz, Eternal Champions, Fatal Fury, Fight Fever, Fighter's History, Fighter's Impact, Fighting Layer, Fighting EX Layer, Final Fight: Revenge, Guilty Gear, Kakuto Chojin, Kaiser Knuckle/Global Champion, Killer Instinct, King of Fighters, King of Monsters, Knuckle Heads Mace; The Dark Age, Martial Champion, Mortal Kombat, Omen of Sorrow, Power Instinct, Power/Deadly Moves/Athlete, Power Stone, Punch Out, Rage of the Dragons, Samurai Shodown, Saturday Night Slam Masters, Skullgirls, Soul Calibur, Street Fighter, Tekken, Tuff E Nuff, Virtua Fighter, War Gods and World Heroes.

African Continent

First region or continent we will cover is Africa. We will list each African country that at least has one representative in a fighting game that we listed above. We won't be able to cover much but hopefully we will see what ideas the FGC came up with. We are mostly acknowledging African nationals or citizens but we will acknowledge diaspora characters who are identified with an African country despite being born, raised or living in a non African country. So hypothetically a character that is born and raised to a Nigerian family will count, same for a British born and raised Somali.

No Social, Political or otherwise unnecessary offensive comments please as this article is to share and celebrate culture and diversity.