Making Tough Decisions

Guess Who's Coming To School

The post below is a slight reworking of my cartoon of the same title first published in West Africa Magazine, in January 2001 under my weekly page, Watching Developments.

I have to re-issue the cartoon because every time the issue of girl-child pops up in the news or elsewhere, there is always a flurry of enquiries about the whereabouts of the girl-child cartoon, Guess who’s coming to school. The cartoon used to reside in a satirical website, Foolscap online, now temporarily closed down for maintenance.

The most vociferous of the enquirers claim familiarity with the cartoon and express a wish to see it again, first on account of nostalgia and second, to share with friends through the social media. Some have talked of their “connections”, which they could invoke to get Girl-Child Education NGOs to sanctify it! Others have suggested I do a series on the subject and erm… in colour.

In colour? Although I like colour when I see it in other cartoons, I am essentially your old-fashioned black and white guy. I am your avant-garde cartoonist who prefers to use words where an illustration could do. What I am saying is, it is always with great reluctance that I accompany my editorial cartoons with drawings. You can then see why adding the painful process of applying colour to the equation will really be pushing it!

Well, this reworking is the first step! As for doing a series, it’s an option I will be willing to consider if the right partnership comes along! 

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