*In the last four years lack of world leadership from the US has allowed for disturbing incidences in Africa which leaders are getting away with.
In these trying and extraordinary times and away from the build up and aftermath of the US elections, Tanzanian, after its concluded shambolic elections has nose dived into tension with opposition leaders arrested and black out on social media.
Police have since arrested Freeman Mbowe, the chairman of the main opposition party in the wake of a disputed election. This matter is of grave concern to democracy in Tanzania.
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This is not how the founding Fathers of democracy especially Julius Nyerere the first president of independent Tanzania would love to have this happen. Concerned Kenyan cartoonist GADO who started his cartooning career in Tanzania drew his cartoon to express how he feels about the whole matter and calls on the rest of the world to pay attention.
Then there is the Anglophone crisis in Cameroon. Around the time of protests and killings in Nigeria also in October, The Kumba school massacre took place at Mother Francisca International Bilingual Academy in Kumba. Armed separatist fighters shot dead seven children on the spot and tens of others who were left in critical condition were rushed to the hospital. And at least 54 people were killed in a rebel attack in a school yard in Ethiopia’s restive Oromia region. So who is paying attention? It should not take foreigners from the West in these nations to be caught up in these incidences before the West, wakes up to these ongoing issues escalating in Africa. Four years of “America first” looking inward leadership has failed Africa.
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 marking 60 years of Nigeria. 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]
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