Investigated, researched, colonised, pillaged by almost all other nations: Europeans, Asians, Americans, they all attempted to make some part of the continent a target for firstly an exciting adventure, just before sharpening their chompers and finally biting into the bowels of local sacred earth and tearing into valuable metals, coal and oil.
Comics right from the early 1920s gave mesmerising and fascinating accounts of the wilderness, the animals and the “backwardness” of Black people.
This idea was multiplied by movies and books. The popularity of the books, comics and movies in other countries as well, eventually completed the fully fledged painting that represented what permanently became known as “darkest Africa”.
Thousands of wars, skirmishes, battles, backstabbings, coups, and dictatorships have become all too familiar occurrences and are actually now a…
