African Wave: Specificity and Cosmopolitanism in African Comics

Massimo Repetti is an Italian cultural anthropologist whose research interests include social implications of African artistic expression (including comics) and urban modernity. He has curated three pan-African exhibitions of comics: “Matite Africane” (2001) and “Africa Comics” (2002, 2003), is consultant for the Lambiek Comiclopedia based in the Netherlands, and is co-editor (with Andrea Marchesini Reggiani) of the comic series Africa Comics. [email protected]