Nigerian Cartoonist Assaulted At Home

In one of the most horrifying actions against a cartoonist anyone can imagine, armed intruders on March 19 entered the home of the Lagos suburb-based cartoonist Obe Ess, threatened members of his family in front of him, and then injured him so that he had to go to the hospital for treatment. Ess works for The Guardian, a privately-owned newspaper. Ess is a prominent member of that publication's cartoon-making contributors, and their basic approach is described here, while you can see specific examples of the cartoonist's work here. Perhaps most depressingly, while the incident was immediately reported by Ess to authorities and Reporters Sans Frontieres condemned the action within a day or so of its being documented, no one seems to know exactly why the attack was made.
 
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