Welcome to The Fool's Cap, (Foolscap), the
African Court of Humour Rights. The irreverent site dedicated
to monitoring humorous activities throughout Africa, with
particular attention to Nigeria.
We achieve our aims by interfering in the internal affairs
of sovereign states (no mean achievement, bettered only
by Amnesty International). Our weapons? Loads of cartoons,
witty short paragraphs and common sense.
As well as satirise our politicians and dictators, we
poke fun at everybody else in a way that has always been
anathema to us when others do it. The idea is that, by
laughing at ourselves, our foibles, others might understand
us better.
Your
agent provocateur or, worse still, your editor
is Bisi Ogunbadejo, one-time editorial cartoonist/group
art editor of the respected Guardian Newspapers
(Nigeria), and editor of its Lagos Life weekly.
He is best known for his biting cartoons and satires
that dogged the regimes of several Nigerian dictators;
and Cracks cartoon column (1981-1992) in the
London-based West Africa magazine.
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