*The Lagos based Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism has donated funds to the Cartoonists Association of Nigeria CARTAN to enable cartoonists who are members in conceptualising and publishing cartoons that speak to access to information in commemoration of the International Day for Universal Access to Information (IDUAI) which was on 28 September 2020 and the webinar discussion on ‘Drawing the Line for Speech: A display of cartoons reflecting Nigeria at 60 is to be held on October 1.
The centre is named after the very vocal Wole Soyinka a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist who was awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize in Literature.
TAYO Fatunla is an award-winning Nigerian Comic Artist, Editorial Cartoonist, Writer and Illustrator. He is one of the participants of the CARTAN Virtual cartoon exhibition.He is a graduate of the prestigious Kubert School, in New Jersey, US. and recipient of the 2018 ECBACC Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award for his illustrated OUR ROOTS creation and series – Famous people in Black History – He participated in the UNESCO’s Cartooning In Africa forum held in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia and the Cartooning Global Forum in Paris, France and took part in the Afropolitan Comics virtual comics exhibition arranged by the French Institute in South Africa coinciding with its annual National Arts Festival –– www.tayofatunla.com/[email protected]
Visit cartoon exhibition on www.cartan.org – on 1st October
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