Zimbabwe.
Zimbabwe
1994
Zimbabwean comics grew out of newspaper cartoons.
Kingsley Sambo drew for the Daily News in Salisbury from 1960, and Hassan Musa is remembered as the first black cartoonist in the country in the 1970s. In the 1980s Boyd Maliki and Geoff Nyarota created the strip Nyati. Tony Namate, who started at The Herald in 1988, became the best known political cartoonist, with book collections from 1994 to 2011.
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1994
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Artists from Zimbabwe in the archive.
Comics from Zimbabwe in the archive.
Chikwama at Large, the earliest comic from Zimbabwe in the archive.
The decade when the most new comics from Zimbabwe began.
comics
Zimbabwe in 3 chapters
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Zimbabwe.
3 chapters
Chapter 1
1960
to 1979
Rhodesia and the first black cartoonists
1960
to 1979
Chapter 01
Rhodesia and the first black cartoonists
Kingsley Sambo became cartoonist for the Daily News in Salisbury in 1960, a paper with mostly African readers, and kept the job for four years until the paper was banned. Tony Namate names Hassan Musa as the first black cartoonist in the country in the 1970s.
1980
to 1999
Chapter 02
Nyati and the first political cartoon books
Namate lists Mjosa, Donatus Bonde (DJB) and Boyd Maliki as cartoonists before him in the 1980s, and Maliki created the strip Nyati with Geoff Nyarota. Namate began at The Herald in 1988 and went independent in 1991. His books Chikwama at Large (1994), State of the Nation (1997) and Writing on the Wall (1998) followed.
2000
to today
Chapter 03
Pressure and online work
Namate drew for the Daily News, whose office was hit by a homemade bomb in April 2000 and whose press was blown up in January 2001 before the paper shut in 2003. He received the CRNI Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award in Kentucky in 2004, now draws for the website New Zimbabwe and published The Emperor's New Clods in 2011.
The comics to know
- Nyaticomic stripBoyd Maliki and Geoff Nyarota. Comic strip from the 1980s; a book edition came out in Harare in 1997.
- Chikwama at Large1994 · cartoon collectionTony Namate. Cartoon book published by TN Comics, Harare.
- State of the Nation1997 · cartoon collectionTony Namate. Collection of political cartoons.
- The Emperor's New Clods: Political Cartoons from Zimbabwe2011 · cartoon collectionTony Namate. Collection of Namate's political cartoons published by Lion Press.
The people to know
- Tony NamateBest known Zimbabwean political cartoonist; won the CRNI Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award.
- Kingsley Sambo1936 to 1977Painter and Daily News cartoonist from 1960.
- Hassan MusaNamed by Namate as the first black cartoonist in the country, in the 1970s.
- Boyd MalikiCo-creator of the strip Nyati.
- Donatus BondeCartoonist known as DJB; Namate calls him Zimbabwe's most critical cartoonist.