We speak with Dr. Michael Dando in this episode about comics, hip-hop, and education. Dando is a multicultural education scholar focusing on hip-hop culture and the representation of self. In collaboration with Professor John Jennings (writer) and artist David Brame, Dando has revived Lion Man, one of the characters in All Negro Comic #1, created in 1947 by Orrin Cromwell Evans. The new Lion Man comic offers a new generation of readers a chance to follow the adventures of the seminal black comic character. In this conversation, we explored his vision of the transformative potential for Afrofuturism and how those ideas can inspire youth and transformation education.
