This development in Sub-Saharan Africa is the focus of a major new exhibition entitled “Kubuni”, which recently opened in the south of France. In France, two major African cultural events – Africa 2020 and BD 20-21, Year of the Comic Strip – were scheduled to take place in 2020 and 2021, before a nasty little virus thwarted the plans of cultural institutions. The first part of the exhibition provides a solid foundation for African comics by honouring pioneers. His adaptation of the 1940s tale The Spleen and the Four Rat is considered by the historian Christophe Cassiau-Haurie to be the very first Cameroonian comic strip. Yes, black and/or African female characters were so rare in artistic productions that I knew I had to create them.

Source: The North Africa Journal August 06, 2021 20:57 UTC