Korte beschrijving/Annotatie

A groundbreaking set of interventions about the legendary comic artist Papa Mfumu’Eto 1er.

Slogan/Promotie

The audacious and unsettling comic zines of Papa Mfumu’Eto 1er are the central subject of this volume. This Congolese artist sold his comics on the streets of Kinshasa in the 1990s. A diverse group of scholars and artists—including Mfumu’Eto himself—engage with the found vernacular archive of this legendary cartoonist. The authors analyze his sequential art, unique framing techniques, copious use of Lingala, as well as vivid scenes of troubles, dreams, and the everyday. Combining anthropology, linguistics, and visuality with history and autobiography, A Kinshasa Star offers a wonderful mixture of interventions into Mfumu’Eto’s oeuvre and well beyond. Included are contrapuntal forays into colonial and postcolonial comics, Kinshasa lives and afflictions, the occult, Kongo shrines, domesticity, and the political turmoil of the last years of Mobutu’s twisted regime.

Biografie

Nancy Rose Hunt is an independent scholar, editor, and prize-winning ethnographic historian of the Congo. She has been Papa Mfumu’Eto 1er personal archivist since 2001. Pedro Monaville is Associate Professor of African History at McGill University. A specialist of postcolonial Congo and the global 1960s, he regularly collaborates with artists on projects that connect history and visual culture.

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