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Exploring African Fantasy & Mythology in Graphic Novels

In her video, the Ghanaian artist and activist Akosua Hanson explores African fantasy in graphic novels. In doing so, she not only addresses her own preference for the fantasy genre, but also focuses on the meaning of fantasy from an African worldview and how to understand it, which is nevertheless so often overshadowed by Western stories. To this end, she tells three African stories, firstly about the creation story and the evolution of life, secondly about the African understanding of wisdom and the agricultural revolution, and thirdly about the understanding of the phenomenon of death and the cycle between birth, death and rebirth. To write fantasy is to play. These three stories aim to inspire future artists, just as they inspired Akosua Hanson.

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