African Cartoon and Comic Books - Peppercorn Books

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African Cartoon and Comic Books English From Kenya

The Alien by Anthony Mwangi A story of sci-fi crime fighting. "A young scientific prodigy heals wounds, creates rain, and makes a few mistakes. Later he harnesses the power of electromagnetic waves to punish evil doers." Full color cartoon book. Price: $11.95 Publisher: Sasa Sema ISBN: 9966-9609-8-8 Year of Publication: 2000 Place of Publication: Nairobi, Kenya Length/Size: 36 pages, A4, portrait Peppercorn Title #: 640-0012

Komerera The Runaway Bride by Tuf Mulokwa "Historical drama of love and heroism set in the Mau Mau period of Kenya's struggle for independence: a beautiful young girl runs away from her village to avoid a forced marriage and runs in to other dangers from all sides." Full color cartoon book. Price: $11.95 Publisher: Sasa Sema ISBN: 9966-9609-9-6 Year of Publication: 2000 Place of Publication: Nairobi, Kenya Length/Size: 36 pages, A4, portrait Peppercorn Title #: 640-0013

Peppercorn Catalog 5, Africa

African Comic Books • 1


African Comic Books From South Africa

Waiting for Lerato

Growing Together

by Monique Fagan & Cathy Winter

by Wendy Annecke & Mba Manqele

"Two women are framed by the balustrade of an old building in a city overlooking a taxi rank. They discuss the relations between men and women, drawing on their own painful experiences. The artwork is experimental, using the comic genre. The scenes from the taxi rank below form a visual subtext which enacts a second narrative - a love story - from which the title of the reader is taken. The humour of the subtext is set off against the serious and important gender issues raised in the text."

Sipho and Lindiwe are in love. They want to get married but the land on Sipho's farm is very poor. Together with their friends they learn to solve some of the soil erosion problems on Sipho's farm.

Price: $5.00 Publisher: Kagiso Series: Project Literacy ISBN: 0-7986-3943-1 Year of Publication: 1996 Place of Publication: Pretoria, South Africa Length/Size: 20 pages, 6.5 x 9.5 inches, portrait Peppercorn Title #: 630-0001

Spirits of the Ancestors by Mede Rall & Bill Van Rijssen This full-color comic books brings to life the San paintings, a rich cultural heritage which lies in the mountains of the western Cape of South Africa. It tells the story of how a few people came together to try save these paintings and the heritage that they represent from being lost forever. Discover the power, the mystery and the magic of these paintings that are on rock shelters all over southern Africa. Price: $6.00 Publisher: Juta & Company ISBN: 0-7021-4144-5 Year of Publication: 1997 Place of Publication: Cape Town, South Africa Length/Size: 28 pages, A4, portrait Peppercorn Title #: 620-0048

2 • African Comic Books

A beginning level reader in comic book format. Price: $7.00 Publisher: New Readers Publishers ISBN: 1-874897-57-3 Year of Publication: 1992 Place of Publication: Durban, South Africa Length/Size: 22 pages, A5, portrait Level: beginner Peppercorn Title #: 610-0002

Democrazy by Gado "Selection of editorial cartoons on global issues from one of Africa's best loved cartoonists. These cartoons all appeared in The Daily Nation, Nairobi, between 1992 and 1999. Gado (Godfrey Mwampembwa), from Dar es Salaam, has studied in Italy, South Africa and Canada. His cartoons have been published in books and newspapers all over the world." Price: $14.95 Publisher: Sasa Sema ISBN: 9966-9609-5-3 Year of Publication: 2000 Place of Publication: Nairobi, Kenya Length/Size: 126 pages, 8.25 x 9 inches, portrait Peppercorn Title #: 640-0014



African Comic Books Swahili From Kenya

Macho Ya Mji City Eyes by Ruth Wairimu Karani "City Eyes" is a comic cartoon book, in full color, about beggars and thieves in Nairobi. "In the mean streets of contemporary Nairobia a blind beggar and two street children help the police solve crimes. The dialogue is rich with Swahili proverbs applied to the events and messages in the story." The story and script, written in standard Swahili enriched by traditional proverbs, are by Ruth Wairimu Karani, a prize-winning Kenyan playwright; the illlustrations are by Kenyan cartoonist James Kamawira of Bongoman fame. Price: $11.95 Publisher: Sasa Sema ISBN: 9966-9609-3-7 Year of Publication: 1998 Place of Publication: Nairobi, Kenya Length/Size: 36 pages, A4, portrait Format: paperback Language: Swahili Peppercorn Title #: 640-0007

Manywele Hair by Tuf This comic book by Samuel Mulokwa (Tuf), presents a story about the evils of tribalism and religious hypocrisy in a rural Kenyan village. Price: $11.95 Publisher: Sasa Sema ISBN: 9966-9609-4-5 Year of Publication: 1998 Place of Publication: Nairobi, Kenya Length/Size: 36 pages, A4, portrait Peppercorn Title #: 640-0011


Abunuwasi by Gado Three of the great Abunuwasi stories, about the famous trickster character from the East African coast, in cartoon format by Godfrey Mwampembwa (Gado), one of East Africa's best known cartoonists. Price: $11.95 Publisher: Sasa Sema ISBN: 9966-9609-0-2 Year of Publication: 1996 Place of Publication: Nairobi, Kenya Length/Size: 32 pages, 10.5 x 8.25 inches, landscape Peppercorn Title #: 640-0010

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African Comic Books Safari ya Anga za Juu

Gitonga

Deep Space Safari by Anthony Mwangi

by Stano

"A Kenyan astrophysicist travels to a new planet in the solar system. Scientific themes include chemical weight, conditions in zero gravity and planetary motion." Serious academic study mixes with pseudo-scientific space exploration in this science-fiction comic book. In full color. Price: $11.95 Publisher: Sasa Sema ISBN: 9966-9609-2-9 Year of Publication: 1997 Place of Publication: Nairobi, Kenya Length/Size: 36 pages, A4, portrait Peppercorn Title #: 640-0009

"A humorous adventure story about a miraa (khat) dealer from the northeastern slopes of Mount Kenya." When Gitonga's wife is kidnapped, he and Junior rush to Ethiopia to rescue her. She aids in her escape, proving herself to be a woman of brains and courage. A full-color comic book full of Swahili slang. Price: $11.95 Publisher: Sasa Sema ISBN: 9966-9609-1-0 Year of Publication: 1996 Place of Publication: Nairobi, Kenya Length/Size: 32 pages, 10.5 x 8.25 inches, landscape Format: paperback Language: Swahili Peppercorn Title #: 640-0008

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Sepedi From South Africa

Malesela (bilingual) le diselula - the cellphones by Sandra Land & Lungisani Kunene "Malesela and the cell-phones is a book of picture stories for adults in English and Sepedi. This dual text reader contains the same stories in English and Sepedi." Price: $8.50 Publisher: New Readers Publishers ISBN: 1-86840-457-9 Year of Publication: 2002 Place of Publication: Durban, South Africa Length/Size: 40 pages, 9.5 x 7.25 inches, landscape Peppercorn Title #: 610-0072

4 • African Comic Books

The Famous Mkhize by Sandra Land & Lungisani Kunene "The Famous Mkhize is a book of picture stories for adults in English and Zulu. Mkhize stories appear in Learn with echo, a weekly supplement to the Natal Witness." Bilingual, in isiZulu and English. Price: $8.50 Publisher: New Readers Publishers ISBN: 1-86840-422-6 Year of Publication: 2001 Place of Publication: Durban, South Africa Length/Size: 64 pages, A5 Peppercorn Title #: 610-0091 Peppercorn Catalog 5, Africa