Comics & Animation
Arts & Entertainment
Zebra Comics and the Reimagining of African Storytelling
This piece traces the evolution of comics from dismissal as juvenile entertainment to recognition as serious art, then pivots to celebrate Zebra Comics PLC, a Cameroonian digital platform founded in 2016 that creates original African comics, webtoons, and manga for global audiences. The writer positions the venture as a response to the dominance of Western and Japanese imports in African popular culture and a counter to the reading crisis among young people on the continent.
We Need Our Own Heroes: Reading Albert Acha as Cameroonian Myth
The writer reflects on the absence of African fictional heroes in his own imagination, shaped by Western comic pantheons, and discovers in Hesley Fonane's detective novel *Sense Pass King: The Case Files of Albert Acha* a Cameroonian character worthy of that mythic weight—one who reads the signs of his own landscape and mind with precision.