The Kemty “Ultimes Griots”
Ultimes Griots is a Kemty, a term meaning drawing of Black civilization, or African comic book. The Kemty concept was launched by Biyong Djehuty and is a contraction of Kem (Black) and Ty (Image).
A sankofa African fiction
The work is a fiction whose story takes place on a timeline different from ours. It follows a sankofa approach, that is, using the past to create the future.
So you will find many references to African heroes and civilizations of the past, all within a pseudo-futuristic projection, as if to answer the question: what would Katiopa (Africa) have looked like without the historical shocks of slavery and colonization? What would “normal” civilizational development have been after the great African empires?
Ultimes Griots draws on the apparent diversity of Katiopa’s traditions. Elements of the science of the Bassa of Cameroon, the architecture of Mwene Mutapa, the techniques of Senegalese wrestlers, the Ashanti protocol system, the castes of the Manden,… are among the pieces that make up this great mosaic.
The comic book of Africa
Be warned, Ultimes Griots is not an anthropological treatise! It is first and foremost entertainment. So relax 🙂! It is a comic book that combines intrigue, action, wonder and humor.
I hope this Kemty N’Zassa will captivate you and make you feel the wonder with which every line of the story landed on my papyrus.
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