The Loneliness Of The Long Distance Runner!

Things Have Gone From Bad to Worse

When this cartoon was first published in Thisday in March 2008, foreigners, including Nigerians had, for some years, been enduring unbearable cruelty and meanness at the hands of South African authorities, the police in particular. While many African governments paid no attention to these maltreatments of their citizens, the malfeasance succeeded in emboldening ordinary South Africans with ideas of how they could treat these foreigners who would inevitably end up as their neighbours.

I followed up with another cartoon in August 2011 which addressed the South African people’s lack of appreciation of the contributions of Nigeria and other African countries to their struggle. http://bisiogunbadejo.blogspot.com/2011/08/libyan-struggle-south-africa-speaks-out.html

By the time the 2008 cartoon was repeated in 2012, South Africa Authorities had become even more brutal and had concocted more capers to keep Nigerians and other Africans out of their country (see the note at the bottom of the cartoon). And of course, the ordinary South African had become more emboldened and ready to twist the knife in the wound, helped by the fact that this category of immigrants seemed to have become inured to Police brutality. The South African government is now confronted with the task of containing the monster it created. But, can they swing it?

We WAS Robbed!

Just stumbled on this cartoon I made in 2010. In it, PDP can be seen swearing to wrest back EKiti State from ACN (now APC) in 2014. It did exactly so in 2014.  Another prophecy has come to pass!

Small Is Beautiful

This carton originally appeared in the now defunct NewAge Newspaper in 2003, when Obasanjo, a man reputed to be a know-it-all was President.

The cartoon made a “guest appearance” in Thisday in 2011, just as Jonathan became President and yet to show his hand.

Well, in the last four years, we've come to know that President Jonathan was the opposite of Obasanjo in the “Know-it-all” department, but a perfect match in the area of appointing too many aides. Jonathan’s aides do not advise him. Instead, they bypass him and offer their advice in form of insults directly to the public. However, the in-coming President Buhari, reputed to be austere and Spartan has vowed to appoint only a handful of aides.

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President Jonathan balked at the suggestion that he should go for a smaller cabinet because of government’s dwindling resources. We’ve all seen how a large cabinet has added no real value to our lives, but rather constituted an unnecessary drain on our struggling economy.

We are beginning to hear that President-elect Buhari will go for a smaller cabinet. We hope he won’t succumb to pressure to do otherwise.