Best African fantasy series
Get ready to binge. We've found a collection of must-watch fantasy shows from Africa, now streaming on Netflix, HBO, Hulu, Prime Video, and other top services!
Paranormal 2020
Set in the 1960s; Paranormal follows the adventures of Dr. Refaat Ismail, a professor of hematology, as he comes up against various supernatural events with the help of his Scottish old flame, Maggie.
69Charlie Jade 2005
Charlie Jade is a science fiction television program filmed mainly in Cape Town, South Africa. It stars Jeffrey Pierce in the title role, as a detective from a parallel universe who finds himself trapped in our universe. This is a Canadian and South African co-production filmed in conjunction with CHUM Television and the South African Industrial Development Corporation. The special effects were produced by the Montreal-based company Cinegroupe led by Michel Lemire.The show started in 2004 and was aired on the Canadian Space Channel. It premiered on the Space Channel April 16, 2005 and aired in Eastern Europe, France, Italy, on SABC 3 in South Africa, on Fox Japan, and on AXN in Hong Kong. The show began airing in the United Kingdom in October 2007, on FX. The Sci Fi Channel in the United States premiered the show on June 6, 2008, but after 2 episodes on Friday prime-time, moved it to overnight Mon/Tue.
69El Soffara 2023
Shafeeq, a tour guide, steals Tutankhamun's time travel whistle. A golden opportunity to get a do-over for his life and achieve his dreams.
70The Brave Ones 2022
An all-mighty goddess reincarnated as a young woman must harness her divine powers to avenge her sister's death and protect her family from destruction.
51Home is My Home 2022
In a setting of comedy and horror, Benno is forced to return to Cairo in order to settle his inheritance, but is soon shocked to learn that what he inherits will expose him to terrifying adventures.
70In Your Dreams 2023
Best friends, Marcus and Lloyd, have just been evicted from their apartment and are struggling to keep their pest control business afloat. Then an old classmate introduces them to an ancient African statue that just might be the answer to their prayers. The tribe who created the relic believes it has the power to make dreams come true. Just not the kind of dreams our friends were hoping for.
57The Hibiscus-Man 2013
This science-fiction show revolves around a mad scientist, known by his friends as the "Al Ragol Al E'naab." The mad scientist concocts an elixir that gives regular human beings supernatural abilities. Though he tries to use his potion to help people, the government hinds him out and goes after him. In the midst of his manhunt, Egypt undergoes a major disaster, prompting the Egyptian government to seek out his help rather than his arrest.
63Seven Doors 2024
It tells a story of Adedunjoye, a simple man who loves his wife and children, he was told to become the King of Ilara's Kingdom as the Kingship has gotten to his family lineage, uninterested in the offer, he vehemently refused, after several persuasion, he obliged and became the King, his ascension to the King was followed by a lot of opposition who sought to make his tenure miserable
90The End 2020
In 2120 Jerusalem, an engineer tries to find a solution to the energy problem in light of the restrictions that the regime imposes on the population. However, everything changes when he comes across his robotic doppelganger.
52Saleema Arrived 2023
Follows a girl who starts reading an old book and once she reads it, she travels through many different times to face many funny situations.
64Ending with Style 2017
A conflict between men and women becomes a third world war. All humans die except for a number of men and women in Egypt. After the Haj and Hajja appear, a truce is called between the commander of the men's army (Sultan) and the leader of the women army (Karma), but what will happen during this truce?
63Al Maddah 2021
Saber returns from the dead to face the greatest the earth has ever known: the daughters of Satan! We hear about a mission to destroy humanity, and to free their greatest master Satan by any means possible…
64Zodiac 2019
A group of university students find themselves the target of a curse killing them one by one in a manner related to their zodiac sign. Their quest to rescue themselves take them to the origin of this curse: Ancient Egypt.
66The Covenant (The Permissible Speech) 2015
The story of the Covenant (العهد) unfolds in a fantasy world in an unset time and place, in an atmosphere of excitement, crime, horror and drama blended with magic and fantasy. The story of 3 small neighbouring villages and the struggles among the members of Aldiabh family to gain control over the villages and the Covenant which sets the rules of the land. The Family do not hesitate at anything in order to reach their goals, lying, ploting, stealing and even killing the people closest to them.
62African Folktales Reimagined 2023
Six beloved African folktales are boldly reimagined in this multilingual anthology series exploring themes of grief, love, and mysticism.
50Welcome Home 2022
Assigned to investigate the revengeful murder of an unknown man, Adam begins to uncover the truth through torn photographs he finds at his house.
65Gawdar 2024
A merchant has three children; Salem, Salim, and Gawdar. However, the life of the last son, Gawdar, becomes complicated, and he comes into conflict with the enemy Shimoun to reach the four treasures of the wiseman Shamardal.
55COVID-25 2021
Set in 2025 when COVID-25 has spread around the world, an accident turns successful surgeon Yaseen into a YouTuber and he’s forced to face the mysterious virus.
42Grandfather's Soul 2025
Yasmine is a failed plastic surgeon. She performed an operation on a famous artist and failed, which prompted the artist to file a case against her and force her to pay a fine of 10 million pounds. She had to sell the palace, but she was surprised to find no contract. During her search for the necklace inside the palace, she encountered events stranger than fiction...?!!
60The Silk Kingdom 2025
Three brothers separated by life are brought together in a fierce battle for the royal throne. Fate changes on the birthday of King Nour El-Din's second son, when Uncle Golden kills the king and pursues his heir. The faithful servant Radwan escapes with Princes Shams El-Din and Jalal El-Din, but they are separated. Shams El-Din grows up as a slave in the battalion, while Jalal El-Din grows up among thieves. When they meet again, conflicts between loyalty and betrayal explode in a battle for power.
53Arrière El Goddem 2025
Helmi goes into a cave in the woods and gets transported back to 1991 Tunisia. He tries to communicate his situation to his parents and grandparents and make sense of his new life.
45Romana and Brtal 2005
Based on Moroccan folklore, the series depicts a number of different folk tales, using the events to show pointed messages and moral lessons.
45Al-Sherka Al-Almanya Lmokafahet Al-Khawareq: Gamgoum w Bembem 2020
Gamgoum and Bembem decide to launch a company specializing in combating scary and extraordinary phenomena, an endeavor that lands them in trouble as they find themselves facing ghosts, thieves, vampires, and much more creatures.
31Robot In Our House 2021
A young man named Youssef works on a project to manufacture a robot with artificial intelligence, and when he succeeds in creating the two delicious Zumba models, his life and the life of his family are quickly turned upside down.
30Omar and Diab 2020
When Omar has a serious injury that prevents him from playing basketball and Diab gets electrocuted, they embark on a journey to get new jobs, and helpless, they buy a taxi, that's when their debts increase and they get in trouble to pay off the installments.
20Le Trône d'Akachi 2023
20Liewe Heksie 1978
Liewe Heksie is a kind-hearted but incompetent and forgetful witch. She llives with her friends the elves in Blommeland ("Flowerland") where her foolishness and lack of magic skills leads to many funny situations.
10Interster 1982
A South African Supermarionation children's television show about an undercover planetary defence agency operating from Cape Town under the guise of an interstellar shipping company. The show mirrored the real world political issues of international isolation facing Apartheid South Africa with the Earth being depicted as a galactic pariah of the "Interplanetary League" due to its cold war with the planet "Krokon". The villain in the series was depicted by Prince Karnati or his evil henchmen.
10The End of the World is not Tomorrow 1983
Riad Abd Rabbo is a philosophy teacher who collides with the materialistic, utilitarian reality that is completely different from the values he has learnt and teaches his students, such as truth, goodness and beauty, and when he fails to fix what is wrong around him, the philosophy of Al-Dardiri, an old thinker who those around him believe has lost his mind, is confirmed. Riad resorts to the same logic as El Dardiri, who died waiting for aliens to help him come up with solutions to save the world from possible and very near doom.
10ألف ليلة وليلة 1984
10Subterranea 2024
Eight participants are placed in an underground bunker for a psychological experiment. In a twist of irony, the world ends and they are now trapped in the bunker with nowhere to go.
10ألف ليلة وليلة: علي بابا والأربعين حرامي 1995
10ألف ليلة وليلة 1992
The story is adapted from the famous Arabic fantasy novel of the same name.
10ألف ليلة وليلة: ضوء المكان وبدر التمام 2000
10ألف ليلة وليلة: ذات المال 1999
10ألف ليلة وليلة: ذات الخال 1998
10ألف ليلة وليلة: فضل الله ووردانه 1996
10ألف ليلة وليلة: معروف الإسكافي 1993
10ألف ليلة وليلة 1991
10ألف ليلة وليلة: الأشكيف وست الملاح 1989
10ألف ليلة وليلة: حمال الأسية 1990
10ألف ليلة وليلة: بدر باسم وجوهرة بنت السمندل 1990
10Alf liela w liela - El Talat Banat 1987
(Karima w Halima W Fatima)The series tells in a fun way the stories of One Thousand and One Nights, where in every episode Sherazade tells a new story or continues a story and the beginning of a new story until the king always listens to it and postpones the decision to get rid of it.
10Alf liela w liela - Wardashan w Mando 1986
The story revolves around a fictional framework about Sultan Kahlan, who was deprived of procreation, along with his wife, Qamar Al-Zaman. Minister Shaalan seeks to persuade the Sultan to marry his daughter until she gives birth to the crown prince, until he meets the old witch king, who gives him and his wife an apple to eat and provide the crown prince, and the events continue.
10Alf liela w liela - Aroos El Bahr 1985
A strange love story grows between the human prince Nour and the princess, the mermaid, who does not have legs but a tail like fish, and the mermaid tries to become as human as her lover until her love succeeds
10URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika 2006
URBO: The Adventures of Pax Afrika is a South African science fiction animated television series created by the animation department of Octagon CSI, which later became Clockwork Zoo. It started airing in October 2006, and ran until November 2009. It chronicles the adventures of a gang of teenagers who live in a futuristic Cape Town, renamed iKapa City, the last known city on the planet, as they fight the evil industrialist overlord Maximilian Malice.Pax Afrika, the son of the missing explorer Zingela Afrika, discovers that he has ancestral powers that allow him to see flashes of the future. Together with his friends, emo mechanic T-Man, hacker girl Keitu, and Una, Malice's rebellious daughter, Pax plans to find his father and save the city from Malice Industries. But his fate is also tied to the mysterious, hidden city of URBO - an environmental El Dorado located somewhere in the ruins of Africa.
10ألف ليلة وليلة: سالم وغانم 2005
10Mulberry leaves-أوراق التوت 2015
A mythological epic drama about two imaginary kingdoms: the pagan Dramhan and Sharinqah, which are considered the most powerful empires in the world. As the conflict between the two power houses rises, a Muslim man called Bin Ahmed gets stranded on their shores.
10Not One Thousand and One Nights 2010
A different take on the classic One Thousand and One Nights, where Scheherazade has a recurring dream that a soothsayer interprets as a sign that she only has two days left with her husband, before she meets the same fate as the women before her. Scheherazade comes up with a plot to escape that fate.
10Switchers 2012
A student without ambition, broke and insecure, Amine is searching for meaning in his life. One day, like any other, while he is bored in a lecture hall, he meets the girl for whom he will want to change his life: Anissa! How can he win over this young blonde from a wealthy background? Thanks to the powers bestowed upon him by a mysterious figure who gives him a smartphone unlike any other—one that can transform and take on the appearance of anything. From that moment on, an adventure full of unexpected twists begins for Amine.
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