Bisi Ogunbadejo: 2016

Things Have Come Full Circle

The government of the day and its functionaries have always behaved as if they’re doing us a favour, even when it becomes very glaring they are oppressing us. At our most vulnerable moment, they are making us to tighten our belts while they are helping themselves to the difference.

The inset in this cartoon, titled the Peacemaker, was one of the Guardian cartoons portraying men in uniform behaving badly – helping themselves to the difference - that infuriated the military to the tipping point that they had to warn the Guardian of the consequences of publishing uncomplimentary cartoons of men in uniform.