Gado
The recent histories of African countries suggests that cartoonists, with their pointed wit and ability to reduce key issues to a single drawing, would be unwelcome. However, times are changing, as the following article reveals, and there is now more tolerance and scope....
Alexander Phiri
Dina Iordanova
. A continuous footage taken through the window of a moving car. The houses on both sides of the road are either fully burnt or semi-destroyed. It goes on like this mile after mile.
...Francis B. Nyamnjoh
The media have a duty to promote what Africans have in common and to play down what divides them. If they bring to the fore what divides, unity is endangered. This implies that if a certain politics or way of playing...
Andy Mason
Cartoonists from seven African countries gathered at the University of Botswana, 8-10 November 2000, to discuss common issues, share the secrets of their profession and talk about the possibility of setting up an association of African cartoonists. The first of its kind...
The seminar on ‘Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press’ took place in Windhoek, Namibia, 29 April to 3 May 1991. It was sponsored by the UN and UNESCO. Participants issued a declaration based on Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights calling...
Hans Werner Dannowski
Interfilm has a new president as of April 2004. He is someone who had already contributed to the life of Interfilm for 15 years and who had expanded its work. When Hans Hodel was offered the presidency, he stressed that he...
Communication, like peace, has an important role in our lives. For peace to reign in our society, for any developmental activity to succeed, there must be effective communication. This is true if we consider the Babel incident where the sons of Noah failed to...
