A fine Eastern Pende Panya-Gombe African mask. Coll.: David Norden
Africa screams
Life in West Africa without horror films is unimaginable. This does not so much concern films from Hollywood but movies that are produced locally and deal with local themes. The posters convey the diversity of the genre: people who have become evil through avarice, victims of witchcraft, Christi-anity as the deliverer from evil, and others. While horror and evil usually go hand in hand, this is traditionally not always the case. Museum der Weltkulturen read also Leo Frobenius, Stereo photographs 1904 to 1906
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Often it is nothing but our European up-bringing that makes us assume that evil is behind the ritual masks, which seem to us both frightening and grotesque. Some modern and contemporary works of art deal very consciously with horror, suffering and evil. 
