PAPPA IN AFRIKA

4to, 95pp. Original softcover binding, with black lettering to spine.

Anton Kannemeyer, aka Joe Dog of Bitterkomix fame, unflinchingly explores the vigorous debates around race that enliven and shadow daily life in South Africa. Pappa in Afrika brings together recent drawings, paintings and comics that tackle colonialism and its ongoing legacy head-on, adopting Herge's Tintin as the archetypal figure of the white settler. Praised in the New York Times for its "semiotic sophistication, graphic ingenuity and X-ray political vision", Kannemeyer's work is as relentless in its critique of the hypocrisy and racist attitudes of white society as it is of the greed and corruption of Africa's new political elite.

Anton Kannemeyer (born 1967) is a South African comics artist, who has lectured at the University of Pretoria, Technikon Witwatersrand, and was also a senior lecturer at the University of Stellenbosch. In "Pappa in Afrika", Tintin becomes a white African, depicted either as a white liberal or as a racist white imperialist in Africa. In this stereotyped satire, the whites are superior, literate and civilised, and the blacks are savage and dumb. (Wikipedia.com)

Condition: Fine. Covers glossy. Internally clean and bright, and tightly bound.