Governance of African Comics Festivals in The Covid-19 Lockdown Period: A Model for African Artistic Renaissance

Comics festivals, organized annually in several African countries, have always been moments of reunion between cartoonists, artists, the public, amateurs, cultural mediators and several stakeholders to celebrate comics. However, due to the context of the pandemic, these artistic events have undergone changes. Therefore, this research aims to question the changes that have occurred in the artistic governance of African festival-goers and cartoonists in the context of the pandemic. As a result, this research has demonstrated that these changes are the reorganization towards the digitalization of practices, hence the two-sided emergence of e-governance and e-resilience. Therefore, this change of reorganization promotes African Renaissance through the thematic promotion of Pan-Africanism and intra-African interactions. To carry out this research, this study focuses on the experiences of Benin, Cameroon, Congo and Madagascar. Keywords: Comics festivals, African Renaissance, new artistic governance, innovation, Africa