In early childhood someone gave me a storybook of African tales. Anansi, Legba, others I have long since forgotten. Every time I hear that the continent is not properly represented in film, and how some European tale needs to be Africanised I'm reminded of how lazy and risk averse Hollywood is. There are a hundred tales that could be told from the continent, genuinely novel and unlike anything you've read before.
Anecdotally, even the European tales told by Hollywood tend to be seen from an WASP point of view. What is the last time we saw or heard of a fairy tale from Spain or Albania?
But of course, you are right, this is orders of magnitude worse for Africa.
