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Cartoonists make us laugh - and think - by caricaturing daily events and politics. The essays, interviews, and cartoons presented in this innovative book vividly demonstrate the rich diversity of cartooning across Africa and highlight issues facing its cartoonists today, such as sociopolitical trends, censorship, and use of new technologies. Celebrated African cartoonists including Zapiro of South Africa, Gado of Kenya, and Asukwo of Nigeria join top scholars and a new generation of scholar-cartoonists from the fields of literature, comic studies and fine arts, animation studies, social sciences, and history to take the analysis of African cartooning forward. Taking African Cartoons Seriously presents critical thematic studies to chart new approaches to how African cartoonists trade in fun, irony, and satire. The book brings together the traditional press editorial cartoon with rapidly diverging subgenres of the art in the graphic novel and animation, and applications on social media. Interviews with bold and successful cartoonists provide insights into their work, their humour, and the dilemmas they face. This book will delight and inform readers from all backgrounds, providing a highly readable and visual introduction to key cartoonists and styles, as well as critical engagement with current themes to show where African political cartooning is going and why.

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9781611862966

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With this collection of insightful essays, comic art scholarship of Africa has taken a long stride in its development. The editors have assembled top-notch, indigenous researchers from different sectors of the continent to discuss, through in-depth case studies and evocative interviews, serious issues and consequences faced by cartoonists and animators while doing their jobs. The result is a book of lucid and thoughtful writings that goes a long way in encouraging the taking of African cartoons seriously. --JOHN A. LENT, founding publisher/editor-inchief of International Journal of Comic Art, and author of Cartooning in Africa

"""With this collection of insightful essays, comic art scholarship of Africa has taken a long stride in its development. The editors have assembled top-notch, indigenous researchers from different sectors of the continent to discuss, through in-depth case studies and evocative interviews, serious issues and consequences faced by cartoonists and animators while doing their jobs. The result is a book of lucid and thoughtful writings that goes a long way in encouraging the taking of African cartoons seriously."" --JOHN A. LENT, founding publisher/editor-inchief of International Journal of Comic Art, and author of Cartooning in Africa"

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Peter Limb is emeritus Africana Bibliographer and Associate Professor in History and a Distinguished Faculty Member at Michigan State University. Tejumola Olaniyan is Louise Durham Mead Professor at University of Wisconsin-Madison.  

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