156 african appropriations
facilitate the reader’s transfer of the foreign story to his or her own cultural
realm. The following example demonstrates how a typical reference to
the southern Nigerian life-world—the dish called “bitter leaf soup”—is
erased as a result of the adaptation process (see figure 5.1, which shows
panels 3 and 4):
figure 5.1
Page from Omereme (2003), a Swahili photo novel based on the Nigerian video
film of the same name. Courtesy of the newspaper Sani.