TuruGlobal, a team of crypto enthusiasts, has developed a new platform called Africa Stars. According to the TuruGlobal team, Africa Stars is a tribute to the continent which has been the birthplace of life and civilization.
The team adds that the beauty and the rich history of Africa consists of many stories untold or unknown to the bigger global population therefore the project wants to highlight the African continent by telling its history and culture.
“We are launching an #NFT collection representing a good collection of Africans’ best and most famous, we will share details and background stories. We are the African Stars,” the team stated on their website.
The key feature of Africa Stars is StarPedia.
TuruGlobal team explained, “So together with our African “turu warriors” we decided to build the Africa Stars platform with its main feature the “Star Pedia”. Star Pedia is the knowledge center where we collect info about Africa from content providers from our team and content providers from the community. Star Pedia is a story about Africa told by Africans. The long-term vision is to position StarPedia as a decentralized knowledge center fully controlled and managed by the wider community.”
TuruGlobal will make sure that there are incentives for content creators to upload content to the platform and expand the knowledge base covered by StarPedia. Additionally, the team has partnered with organizations like Africa Hub and African Archives that share information on Twitter in order to launch StarPedia.
To symbolize the nations, tribes, regions, sites, artifacts, and people that make up the African continent, a total of 777 NFTs are being created. The NFTs are used to create clickable links to the content behind them in the StarPedia section of the Africa Stars website.
The token used to reward NFT holders and content contributors for the StarPedia area has been designated as the $BBT meme token. Additionally, each NFT is uniquely created by a Philippine designer on the team with input from the African team.
More NFT use cases will arise as the TuruGlobal EcoSystem expands, increasing the NFTs’ value over time. The TuruVerse is one of them.
Africa is the continent of the future, according to TuruGlobal. This is yet another reason why the team has been working hard to put products on the market which make investing accessible for all.
The team pointed out on their site, “While working on building a community in Africa it became apparent to us, through the team of Africans we engaged with that Africa is underrepresented in the Crypto industry and also that information about the rich culture and history is not easily accessible for the masses.”