Ghana
 Impressions from Accra

01.11. - 05.11.2021

privacy

  • Workshop participant sketching shapes. © Goethe-Institut
  • Several workshop participants sit at a table and discuss together with a trainer. © Goethe-Institut
  • The workshop trainers in conversation with a workshop participant. © Goethe-Institut
  • Two workshop participants working together on their joint comic. © Goethe-Institut
  • A group picture of all workshop participants, the trainers and the director of the Goethe-Institut Ghana. © Goethe-Institut
All too soon, the AFRICOMICS Workshop in Accra has come to a successful end. A total of 13 participants took part in the workshop, 3 of whom came from Nigeria. Most of the participants were experienced illustrators who have been complemented by 5 writers. The workshop was led by Ghanaian trainer Akosua Hanson and German trainer Mikaël Ross. Overall, the participants were able to deepen their knowledge in script writing, storyboarding and illustration to help them create their own comics.

The workshop facilitators

Bilder der Künstlerin Akosua Hanson © Akosua Hanson Akosua Hanson is an artistic activist, based in Accra, Ghana. Her work spans radio, television, print media, theatre, film, comic art exhibitions, art installations and graphic novels. Akosua’s activism has been centered around pan-Africanism, feminism and LGBTQI+ rights activism with a special interest in the intersection of art, pop culture and activism. She is the creator of the thrilling, philosophical graphic novel series “Moongirls” a two-time nominee for Best African Graphic novel by ‘The African Speculative Fiction Society' (Nommo Awards). Akosua has a master’s in philosophy in African Studies with a focus on Gender and African Philosophical Thought. She currently works as a radio and TV presenter in Accra.
WEBSITE / INSTAGRAM / FACEBOOK

Bild des Künstlers Mikaël Ross. © Darjush Davar An avid comic reader and cartoonist from an early age, Mikaël Ross only came to the Ninth Art in a roundabout way. Born in Munich in 1984, he initially trained as a theater taylor at the Bavarian State Opera. Moving to Berlin and studying at the Kunsthochschule Berlin-Weißensee influenced his first longer story "Herrengedeck," which he self-published in 2008. During a year abroad at the Brussels School of Bande Dessinée, ESA Saint-Luc in Brussels, he met the Belgian scenarist and draftsman Nicolas Wouters. They shared a fascination for punk and subculture. Together, the two wrote and drew the graphic novel "Les pieds dans le béton" (2013), which immerses its two restless protagonists in the Berlin squatter scene of the eighties. The book was published in 2014 under the title "Lauter Leben!" by Avant-Verlag. After two years of research in Neuerkerode, the cartoonist dares a change of perspective with his graphic novel "Der Umfall" (2018), and tells from Noel's point of view about the lows and highs of a young man with an intellectual disability. For this he received the Max & Moritz Award for the "Best German-language Comic" in 2020.
​​​​​​​
WEBSITE / INSTAGRAM