| Abstrakt: |
The article offers information on African comics. According to the author, non-African readers easily make stereotyped assumptions about African comics because too often their storylines and drawings rely on stock characters and recurrent themes, such as witchcraft. In this way, they also contain references that are easy for readers, lay and academic, to identify and store. He cites that African comics are more versatile than its European counterpart. He also mentions that African comics did not arise out of collectively preserved local memory but are part of the global flux of ideas and images in a world undergoing rapid changes. |
