The imagination of the Black Continent unmercifully breaks down our European preconception of what a folktale is supposed to look like.
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64 pages
Hardcover
ISBN: 978-1-912278-06-0
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The imagination of the Black Continent unmercifully breaks down our European preconception of what a folktale is supposed to look like.
Poetic, somewhat absurd and in some places dark – such are the short folktales of this book. Most of them come out of traditional African folklore though, in the rendition of children storytellers, with a rather distinctive flavor.
The texts arrived into the hands of the Czech artist David Böhm, in the suitcase of his sister Terezie as a stack of student essays from a small Central African school. The imagination of the Black Continent unmercifully breaks down our European preconception of what a folktale is supposed to look like.
Somewhat shocking to children, it is a singularly refreshing comic strip for adults.
