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By Andrew Heavens and Drazen Jorgic LAGOS/NAIROBI (Reuters) – Safari the warrior crouches in the bush – a digitized heroine from the new mobile phone game Afro Fighters that its Nigerian creator hopes will soon rival the likes of Clash of Clans or Angry Birds on the worlds handsets. To achieve this, Olakunle Ogungbamila is preparing to take on a lineup of challenges as daunting as any of the muscular opponents on his new app, even the games arch foe the Dark Lord of Oti. Industry analysts have long hailed the explosive growth of mobile telecoms in sub-Saharan Africa – 635 million subscribers by the end of 2014 climbing to 930 million by the end of 2019 according to a report by Ericsson. It is the quality of those mobile phone connections, subscriptions and surrounding infrastructure that is holding up Africas nascent games development industry, not the quantity of handsets.