African Characters in Comics - Listed By Company - DC Comics

DC Comics

• Adiremi - personification of the living wind she is a pattern in the clouds. One of the Orishas.
• Agemo - the chameleon, depicted as a shapeshifter. One of the Orishas.
• Computo (Danielle Foccart) - member of an alternate version of the Legion of Super-Heroes (in a now-erased continuity); hails from Côte d'Ivoire
• Doctor Mist - former leader of both the Global Guardians and Primal Force.
• Erinle - depicted as a living flame, needs to consume to live. One of the Orishas.
• Eshu - The trickster and maintainer of balance. very similar to Anansi.
• Freedom Beast - a South African hero from the Global Guardians.
• Impala - a former member of the Global Guardians, now deceased.
• Invisible Kid (Jacques Foccart) - member of the Legion of Super-Heroes; hails from Côte d'Ivoire
• Jakuta - a warrior of living stone and earth. Interestingly enough, Jakuta like Shango is traditionally a thunder god known as "Thrower of Light". One of the Orishas.
• Kid Impala - of the Ultramarine Corps
• Mawu - Mawu is the mother of the gods. She is always depicted as riding the rainbow serpent Oshunmare. Mawu created Ifé the living homeland of the gods, and imbued it with Lido (her life-force). Her traditional name is Mawu-Lisa. One of the Orishas.
• Mohammed Ibn Bornu - North African warrior hero from the Cadre of the Immortal. He rode a robot horse and carried and electronic spear that fired bolts of lightning.
• Molo - the International Sea Devil who represented Africa.
• Moremi - she appears to be a communally sentient flock of birds. One of the Orishas.
• Obatala of the White Cloth - leader of the Orishas. Used to take mortal form, was killed in mortal form by the king of Benin. He is later re-incarnated as a mortal man named Doctor Efraim Ngai, with no memory of his godly origins.
• Ochun - basically a naiad, Ochun personified the "Sweet Waters" and can manifest in any body of water. One of the Orishas.
• Ogun - God or iron and the forge, sometimes referred to as He-Who-Is-Iron. The blacksmith god who was the and creator of the Golden Chain linking earth to Ifé home of the gods. And he was also the one who broke the chain at Shango's request. One of the Orishas.
• Olorun - depicted as a face that took up the entire sky, Olorun is defined as "He-Who-is-the-Sky". Olorun was the first Orisha, born of Mawu into the land of Ifé.
• Orunmilla - The lawgiver of the Orishas, and voice of Olorun. Carries an everburning torch.
• Osain - depicted as a human woman spontaneously formed from the leaves of a tree. One of the Orishas.
• Oshunmare - A giant rainbow serpent which is ridden by Mawu the goddess of creation. One of the Orishas.
• Shango - A hotheaded, war-axe wielding thunder god capable of changing his size at will, warchief of the Orishas.
• Vixen - a member the Justice League. Was originally supposed to be the first African-American super heroine but her comic was canceled during the DC Implosion