Burkina Faso
Impressions from Ouagadougou

The focus of the five-day AFRICOMICS workshop in Ouagadougou was primarily on networking. A total of seven artists took part in the workshop. Two storytellers, four illustrators / graphic designers and one professional comic artist. The workshop was led by Burkinabe comic book author Bourahima Zongo (pen name Ib Zongo). The participants brought together their diverse skills and jointly worked on a comic. In the process, they were able to benefit above all from mutual exchange and criticism.
 

The workshop facilitator

© Ib Zongo Bourahima Zongo (pen name Ib Zongo), born in Tanda (Côte d'Ivoire) is a Burkinabe comic book author. Even as a child, he went to class hungry so that he could secretly buy the limited selection of comics with the lunch money he saved. At a young age, he began drawing and developing his first scenarios. At the age of 16, he moved to Burkina Faso, later studied German at the University Joseph Ki-Zerbo in Ouagadougou, hung up his post as a German teacher in Banfora after completing his teaching degree and worked in Mali, Ghana, Burkina Faso and Germany for the GIZ, at the same time completing a Master's degree in eEducation at the Danube University Krems in Austria. As a person between cultures, Bourahima Zongo deals with a range of different topics in his comics: migration, interculturality, African myths, terrorism, war, love or the humorous depictions of precarious student life in Ouagadougou. Zongo works with cartoonists from Burkina Faso, Côte d'Ivoire, Togo and Congo and Cameroon and founded his own company eGrenier in 2021. In addition to his ideas and scenarios, he also provides creative material for international organisations such as common sense or uses his art for educational content in African schools. Ib Zongo has published 5 comics so far.
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