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The cartoon depicts British business magnate Cecil Rhodes as a giant straddling over Africa holding a telegraph line grounded at the northern and southern ends of the continent, a reference to his desire to build a "Cape to Cairo" rail and telegraph line connecting most of the British colonies in Africa. [1]
The continuing anti-slavery movement in Western Europe became a reason and an excuse for the conquest and colonization of Africa. It was the central theme of the Brussels Anti-Slavery Conference 1889–90. From start of the Scramble for Africa, virtually all colonial regimes claimed to be motivated by a desire to suppress slavery and the slave ...
The Lantern (also known as the Cape Lantern) was a weekly newspaper published in the Cape Colony between 1877 and c. 1889.Featuring a populist and pro-imperial slant, The Lantern was one of the first South African newspapers to publish political cartoons.
The plan was initiated at the end of the 19th century, during the time of Western European colonial rule. It was largely based on the vision of Cecil Rhodes, an attempt to connect African colonies of the British Empire through a continuous railway line from Cape Town, South Africa to Cairo, Egypt. [3]
Portrait of Godfrey Mwampembwa. Godfrey Mwampembwa, pen name Gado (1969) is a Tanzanian-born political cartoonist, animator and comics artist. [1] [2] He is the most syndicated political cartoonist in East and Central Africa, and for over two decades a contributor for Daily Nation (), The Standard (Kenya), New African (United Kingdom), Courrier International as well as for Business Day and ...
The donkey stuck when Thomas Nast published a political cartoon in "Harper's Weekly" in 1874. The cartoon titled "The Third Term Panic" shows a donkey wearing lion's skin scaring away other animals.
On November 15, 1884, the International Conference met to resolve "the African question" concerning the disposition of African territories among European powers. After long debate and ten sittings, the Great Powers agreed on borders for their colonies, without input from any African leader or thought to the deeply rooted ethnic and tribal politics.
A cartoon published in the German newspaper Der Spiegel about India overtaking China as the world’s most populous country has angered Indians who have dubbed it “racist”.. Earlier this month ...