Where Imagination Becomes Reality
Marantu exists at the intersection of storytelling, game design, virtual reality, community building, and social transformation – an endeavour requiring diverse expertise and resources.
Welcome to Marantu
Step Into the City of the Sun and Moon
A transmedia universe where Africa’s future tells its own story – through you.
What is Marantu?
Not Just a Story – A Universe to Inhabit
Marantu transcends traditional storytelling boundaries, creating a participatory universe where Africa’s potential futures come alive through multiple media and experiences.
Set 100-150 years from now in the United States of Africa, Marantu is both a physical place and a philosophical framework – a methodology for reimagining what becomes possible when borders dissolve, identities flow, technology serves human connection, and learning is limitless through Izulu – The School Beyond the Sky.
This is not passive entertainment, but active exploration – through narratives you can read, games you can play, virtual spaces you can inhabit, and physical environments you can transform.
Born of Ma. Shaped by Ra. Breathed into being by Ntu.
Marantu – World Colour Map
This guide establishes the symbolic colour architecture of Marantu, mapping the foundational structures of its speculative world to a core set of colours found within the official logo.
Each colour embodies an emotional frequency and structural function, grounding Marantu’s storytelling, design, and immersive platforms in a coherent visual logic.
Education & Knowledge
Green is the colour of growth, transformation, and inquiry. It defines the architecture and tone of Marantu’s educational institutions, research spaces, learning hubs, and mentorship environments.
Domain: Izulu – The School in the Sky
Used In: Schools, archives of discovery, youth centres, curriculum design, puzzle-based games.
Emotional Tone: Hopeful, evolving, fertile, fresh.
Emotional Intelligence & Intimacy
A space of inner fire and deep feeling, Vermillion saturates environments focused on love, healing, loss, rage, and personal transformation.
Domain: The Eclipse* (Romance, Reflection, Rebellion)
Used In: Relationship hubs, memory temples, rebellion zones, story chambers.
Emotional Tone: Passionate, raw, transformative, intimate.
Governance & Collective Memory
Brown anchors Marantu in history, justice, and ancestral knowledge. It appears in state buildings, wisdom circles, memory tribunals, and governance chambers.
Domain: SEFL, Parliament, The Archive*
Used In: Legal chambers, elder halls, constitutional storytelling, historical VR replays.
Emotional Tone: Grounded, ancestral, serious, dependable.
Gaming, Simulation, Strategic Systems
Yellow governs the realm of decision-making, challenge, and consequence. It marks game environments, training simulators, speculative labs,
Domain: The Trials of Ra* and logic-based worlds.
Used In: Game design, strategic challenges, tournament simulations, real-time governance tools.
Emotional Tone: Energetic, alert, brilliant, competitive
Spirituality, AI, Conscious Systems
Blue holds the sacred, the intuitive, and the unseen. It guides users through AI-assisted journeys, meditative interfaces, and time-stepping realms.
Domain: Ntu Interfaces & Spiritual Architecture*
Used In: Temples, AI companions, VR meditations, dream engines, philosophical texts.
Emotional Tone: Calm, profound, timeless, expansive.
Unity & Identity (The City of Marantu)
Burgundy is the binding thread of the entire system—the colour of the capital, the pulse of Marantu. It appears in ceremonial design, unifying symbols, and across high-level interfaces.
Domain: Marantu Central – The City of the Sun & Moon*
Used In: Government buildings, cultural rituals, symbolic tech platforms, national attire.
Emotional Tone: Majestic, integrative, mature, eternal.
For Partners, Funders, and Co-Creators
Marantu exists at the intersection of storytelling, game design, virtual reality, community building, and social transformation – an endeavour requiring diverse expertise and resources.
We seek partners who understand that imagining different futures is essential cultural work:
Help build the interactive experiences at Marantu’s core.
Contribute to the expanding narrative universe.
Develop the platforms connecting digital and physical experiences.
Implement Places of Joy and Eclipse Hub methodologies.
Support the infrastructure that makes this vision possible.