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Actor Jean-Michel Kibuski

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From: Democratic Republic of the Congo

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Jean-Michel Kibushi (Kibushi Ndjate Wooto), is a Congolese stop-motion animator. He is the pioneer of African animation, and widely considered to be the first Congolese animator.

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Prince Loseno 2005 ( 6)

This short film utilizes intricate clay animation to tell of King Ngolo, who is without a male heir. Jealousies among his three wives and with his first love — now the court witch doctor — thwart birth of a successor. Finally blessed with a male heir, the king dies during the Prince's coronation; "Birth and death are twins in the destiny of man," concludes the narrator-griot.

The Toad Who Visits His In-Laws 1990

Rooted in the oral tale recounted by the Tetela in Sankuru, Democratic Republic of Congo, this story explains how it came to be that the Fox ate the Chicken, the Chicken ate the Termite, the Termite ate the Stick and the Stick ate the Toad, when the Toad arrives at his in-laws’ home and is served a meal with a single spoon, sparking off a terrible row!

Black September in Kinshasa 1991

An animated documentary about children's drawings from the military pillaging that hit their community in September 1991. This short uses limited animated techniques interspersing the children's drawings with drawings from Kibushi himself.